[CPEO-BIF] Environmental Advocates: New York's brownfield program is 'off target'

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental group: Billion-dollar brownfield program is 'off target'


By Scott Waldman
Capital New York
November 14, 2013

ALBANY - The state's brownfield cleanup program has cost taxpayers  
$1.14 billion, but has restored just 131 contaminated sites,  
according to a new study from an environmental advocacy group.

Since its creation a decade ago, the Brownfield Cleanup Program has  
largely spent money on sites in wealthier areas, rather than poor and  
minority communities that could benefit the most from the program,  
according to a study released Thursday by Environmental Advocates of  
New York. There are an additional 321 sites enrolled in the program,  
and $3 billion in liabilities pending.

The group alleges that the program functions more as a giveaway to  
developers, rather than targeting the thousands of brownfield sites  
across New York.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2013/11/8536024/ 
environmental-group-billion-dollar-brownfield-program-target

To download the report, go to
http://f.cl.ly/items/3p3p0f0X2b2O1d3S3h24/brownfields%202013.pdf


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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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