Integrated Planning Grants expedite cleanup for cities with limited resources
With just over 1,000 residents, the rural town of Palouse in eastern Washington doesn’t have a community brownfields program. It doesn’t even have the financial resources to hire a professional consultant to guide the city through a clean-up and land revitalization project.
So what’s the city to [...]
Groundwork Portland empowers young people, starts community garden
Groundwork Portland, the fledgling nonprofit organization working to inspire communities to transform contaminated land into neighborhood assets, has made great progress this past year.
Much of Groundwork Portland’s work in the most recent months has been focused on working with young people and educating them about brownfields. Students have [...]
Makah Tribe builds oil spill response program with STRP funds
During the past two years, the Makah Tribe of northwestern Washington has made tremendous strides as it works to build a top-notch oil spill response program to protect the waters of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The last 18 months have been especially groundbreaking for the [...]
That’s a record year for growing Alaska brownfields program
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) this year received a record number of requests for DEC Brownfield Assessments (DBA). The DEC’s Reuse and Redevelopment program received 29 DBA requests, including 11 for state-owned or state-interest properties and 18 for nonstate sites.
Each year the Reuse and Redevelopment [...]
CCLR providing technical assistance to western states
With the aid of a brownfields research and technical assistance grant, the Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) in San Francisco is providing technical assistance to communities throughout the western United States that are tackling brownfields redevelopment projects.
Using the EPA grant, the CCLR is reaching out to states in [...]
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