[CPEO-BIF] Carondelet Coke site, south St. Louis, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Taxpayers foot bill for cleanup of polluted site in south St. Louis

BY JEREMY KOHLER •
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
July 22, 2012

ST. LOUIS - On a sunny Thursday just before Labor Day in 2009, Gov.  
Jay Nixon, Mayor Francis Slay and a crowd of city and state officials  
greeted reporters at one of the state's dirtiest places.

They were there to cheer good news in an otherwise bleak economic  
year: The former Carondelet Coke site that had been abandoned 22  
years earlier would be cleaned up and turned into a business park.

Nixon and Slay praised a plan to use $6.7 million in brownfield tax  
credits from state taxpayers to scrub 42 acres of wasteland and hand  
them over to a developer. They said it was good for Missouri's  
environment and economy.

Left unsaid that day: Those involved knew that $6.7 million was not  
going to be nearly enough.




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For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/taxpayers-foot-bill-for- 
cleanup-of-polluted-site-in-south/article_954af589-af4d-5b73- 
abef-539801ea87d7.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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