[CPEO-BIF] Editorial on Connecticut Brownfields legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield breaks an imperative

Editorial
Connecticut Post
April 18, 2015

In former manufacturing centers like Bridgeport, the landscape is  
littered with the empty hulks of old factories, many of them sitting  
on ground contaminated by the decades of chemical leakage from the  
process of making things.

Brownfields, these sites are called, and they are redevelopment- 
resistant, given the expense of cleaning or capping the soil,  
removing elements like asbestos from the buildings, and making the  
place safe for human activity.

It can be done. But in many cases it won't get done without  
government help.


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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.ctpost.com/opinion/article/Brownfield-breaks-an- 
imperative-6205084.php

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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
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