From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 7 Dec 2005 05:28:38 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Activists: New Jersey "using schools to clean up tainted sites" |
$8.6B STATE PROGRAM Activists: State using schools to clean up tainted sites ENVIRONMENTALISTS: State offers de facto incentive to use polluted land SCHOOL DISTRICTS: Must clean up pollution to build a school on a site BY JASON METHOD Asbury Park Press December 6, 2005 A national environmental activist group said New Jersey has used its $8.6 billion school construction program as a hidden way to clean up contaminated sites. The co-author of a report issued by the group said the state has built in a de facto incentive for municipal and education officials to build schools on polluted land. "Cities and towns get stuck with this land through tax foreclosure; they can't clean up the sites and they can't find developers to clean them up, so they look to the state to reimburse them for school sites," said Steven Fischbach, a lawyer who works with the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, or CHEP, based in Falls Church, Va. ... For the entire article, see http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051206/NEWS03/512060387/1007 -- 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 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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