2005 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: "Hamrick, Kathleen" <Khamrick@PIRNIE.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 2005 05:59:04 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New EPA Grant Guidelines
 
The guidance for the next round of EPA grants was just posted on EPA's
site. 

The link to the guidance document is :
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/pg/fy06_arc_final.pdf

THE DEADLINE FOR NEW APPLICATIONS is December 14, 2005. 
 


Kathleen Hamrick, APSSc
Scientist
Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
2000 Powell St. Suite 1180
Emeryville, CA 94608
Phone: 510.735.3026
Fax: 510.596.8855
www.pirnie.com

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Today's Topics:

   1. New Orleans - Who will return? (Lenny Siegel)


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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:29:16 -0700
From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New Orleans - Who will return?
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The Economics of Return
Class, Color May Guide Repopulation of New Orleans

By Blaine Harden
Washington Post
October 19, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- It was a Thursday, the first of September, just four days
after Hurricane Katrina, and floodwater stood seven feet deep in the
living room of Robert Bouchon's big brick house on Memphis Street in
Lakeview, this city's largest middle-class, white neighborhood.

...

When Katrina blew in and levees gave way, the high water, in many
neighborhoods, was colorblind and classless. It clobbered Lakeview, a
leafy and serene white area where longtime residents cannot remember
serious flooding, as cruelly as the Lower Ninth Ward, a black
neighborhood with a long, dismal history of high water.

But in New Orleans, where affluent whites live high and working-class
blacks live low, the privileges of neighborhood quickly asserted
themselves. For many, race and class predicted patterns of escape,
dictating whether flight would be a nervous drive out of town or a caged
week of torment and humiliation.

These days, as planners and politicians look ahead, many realize that
the future of this city, which before the storm was more than two-thirds
black and nearly one-third poor, swings on two simple questions:

Are residents coming home? If so, which ones?

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR200510
1801910.html

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope
St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org




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