Brownfields Update for the Pacific Northwest

Created under the Superfund Law of 1980, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is responsible for preventing toxic exposures, determining human health effects associated with exposures, and minimizing health risks. The purpose of the agency’s National Brownfield/Land Reuse Initiative is to increase consideration of public health issues in Brownfields redevelopment activities and [...]

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Priest River is a small lumber town in northern Idaho that has been rocked by the effects of the economic downturn and recent lumber mill closures. Over the past year, an interdisciplinary group of students from a University of Idaho service-learning program has partnered with the town to plan for a more sustainable, prosperous future. [...]

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An affordable housing development in southwest Portland is this year’s Region 10 Phoenix Award winner. The Phoenix Awards were established in 1997 to recognize notable achievement in Brownfields redevelopment and in 2000 became part of the EPA National Brownfields Conference. The award was presented to the owners of the property, Community Partners for Affordable Housing, [...]

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This year’s Washington Brownfield Conference, Brownfields Redevelopment: Building Sustainable Communities, held October 14 in Tacoma, followed a different approach to discuss the concepts of Brownfields redevelopment to a wider audience. Despite the economic downturn and higher cost of registration, there were more than 300 attendees. Last year, the first Washington Brownfield Conference attracted about 400 [...]

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Alaska Forum on the Environment
February 8-12, 2010, Dena’ina Convention Center, Anchorage, Alaska
Advance notice: “The Alaska Forum on the Environment (AFE) is a statewide gathering of environmental professionals from government agencies, non-profit and for-profit businesses, community leaders, Alaskan youth, conservationists, biologists and community elders. The diversity of attendees sets this conference apart from any other. The [...]

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