A nearly $200,000 job training grant will put underemployed women to work cleaning up brownfields sites in the Portland and Multnomah County areas.
Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. (OTI) in Portland was awarded the EPA grant that will be used to train 140 women in 12 training cycles–placing at least 91 in environmental jobs–and then to track the [...]
Scott Anderson says he has one goal for the Native Village of Port Heiden’s brownfields program: peace of mind.
And that means removing any uncertainty from the dozen or so contaminated sites in Port Heiden, a small village on the Alaska Peninsula where commercial fishing is the main industry. Port Heiden is surrounded by contamination marking [...]
Let’s face it, most brownfield programs are small units. Many consist of one, two or three staff members. Still, they are managing grant money, not to mention those contaminated sites in their communities or states.
One of the pitfalls of being a small unit is the breadth of knowledge staff members must have, says Sharon Kophs, [...]
The “tax extenders” bill that Congress recently approved included a provision to extend the Brownfields Expensing Deduction through 2007 and to expand the program to include petroleum cleanups. The brownfields tax expensing law makes cleanup expenditures deductible in the year the expenses were incurred. This approach, originally adopted in the Community Renewal Act of 2000, [...]
The finding of historic artifacts or even a gravesite on a construction site makes for big headlines. Often times, the story becomes one of development stalled by sensitive cultural issues and resources that potentially could be lost to modern day progress.
However, thankfully, that doesn’t happen very often, says Russell Holter, a compliance reviewer for Washington’s [...]
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