To our readers,
This first issue of Brownfields Update for the Pacific Northwest is a successor to Building on Brownfields, the previous e-newsletter you have been receiving. The contents, still funded by Environmental Protection Agency, are a monthly compendium of current issues related to Brownfields. Information from Region 10 as well as from each of the [...]
In April of this year, John Carnahan, Brownfields Coordinator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) was contacted by a representative of the Organized Village of Kwethluk (OVK), a federally-recognized tribe in the city of Kwethluk, Alaska. The representative was seeking an environmental assessment for the Joseph Guy Community Center, destroyed by fire in [...]
Lake Pend d’Oreille occupies 148 square miles in the northern Idaho Panhandle. The Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail is the name of a project that seeks to create a public nature trail and non-motorized right-of-way along two miles of the lake’s shoreline, connecting the cities of Sandpoint, Ponderay and Kootenai. Several areas of environmental contamination, mainly [...]
Oregon’s use of its share of ARRA Brownfield funding is an example of a successful strategy to allocate revolving loan funds (RLF) to stimulate economic development. These awards are not supplemental grants to existing RLFs but separate funding awards given only to entities that currently possess an RLF and have received loans previously. Unlike the [...]
Job training is a significant part of EPA’s Brownfields program. Targeted to people in communities affected by Brownfields, the goals of training programs are to address issues of economic disparity and environmental justice.
But what does “Brownfields job training” entail? What does such a program look like?
An example of a successful Brownfields job training program can [...]
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