On the Monday before Earth Day 2011, at a well publicized press event, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other high-ranking city officials broke ground on a market-rate housing development in south ...

On November 16, 2023, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH-10) and Mikie Sherill (D-NJ-11) reintroduced the bipartisan Brownfields Redevelopment Tax Incentive Reauthorization Act (H.R. 6438) (BRTIRA). BRTIRA ...

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. While Congress and President Bush allow the Superfund cleanup program to bleed out, they’re pumping money into a related program called ...

Brownfields play a pivotal but often underappreciated role in economic development. These underutilized or abandoned industrial or commercial sites, often burdened with real or perceived contamination ...

According to the EPA, a brownfield is "a property where expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant." ...

A Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee will hear from witnesses on how to improve the cleanup and redevelopment effort. Interest in EPA’s brownfields program is growing, as House Republicans ...

Properties saddled with historic contamination will get a new shot at life, thanks to a $300 million investment divvied up among more than 200 communities. EPA’s brownfields program provides grants to ...

The Brownfields grants are another step in paving the way for new economic development activity as the city gears up for the construction of the BNSF Railway’s Barstow International Gateway project, ...

A national program for cleaning up contaminated sites is dogged by funding shortages and a lack of oversight that puts lower-income communities at a disadvantage in obtaining federal support, an ...

As the state senator representing Andrews—a small town outside of Huntington—he’s seen firsthand the damage old factories and gas stations leave behind when they close. Andrews, for example, has been ...

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is using $77.6 million of its FY26 state budget for ...