2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 7 Mar 2006 21:16:16 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New York state hearing on brownfields regs
 
Brownfields Law Insufficient for Safe Cleanups, Critics Say

By ANTHONY DePALMA
New York Times
March 7, 2006

New York was one of the last states in the country to pass a law covering the cleanup and reuse of contaminated industrial properties called brownfields.

But environmental and community groups testified at a public hearing in Manhattan yesterday that although New York's law was not passed until 2003 — several years after New Jersey and other states acted — the delay has not meant that the state will do a better job of ensuring that those sites are redeveloped safely.

New York's draft brownfields regulations "could leave dangerous amounts of toxic contamination behind at thousands of sites across the state," said Joel Kelsey, campaigns coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group, an environmental advocacy organization. "We need to clean these sites up, not pave them over."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/nyregion/07contaminate.html

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