2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 18 Dec 2006 08:25:56 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Mayors to lobby
 
Advocates optimistic Congress will fund brownfields program

Raju Chebium
Gannett News Service
Lafayette Daily Advertiser (LA)
December 17, 2006

Local politicians from around the country will be knocking on the doors of Congress when Democrats take over next month, asking for more money to clean up thousands of polluted properties in cities and towns nationwide.

These eyesores - former gas stations, dry cleaning shops, factories and waste dumps - are called brownfields. States began cleaning them up in the mid-1990s using public money and tax incentives.

There are between 450,000 and 1 million sites awaiting cleanup so communities can reuse them for new homes, shopping malls and schools.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, a prominent advocate for brownfield cleanup, is looking for more federal help to put these sites back into circulation.

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http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/BUSINESS/612170337/1046http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061217/BUSINESS/612170337/1046

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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