[CPEO-BIF] New York state hearing on brownfields regs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfields Law Insufficient for Safe Cleanups, Critics Say

By ANTHONY DePALMA
New York Times
March 7, 2006

New York was one of the last states in the country to pass a law 
covering the cleanup and reuse of contaminated industrial properties 
called brownfields.

But environmental and community groups testified at a public hearing in 
Manhattan yesterday that although New York's law was not passed until 
2003 — several years after New Jersey and other states acted — the delay 
has not meant that the state will do a better job of ensuring that those 
sites are redeveloped safely.

New York's draft brownfields regulations "could leave dangerous amounts 
of toxic contamination behind at thousands of sites across the state," 
said Joel Kelsey, campaigns coordinator for the New York Public Interest 
Research Group, an environmental advocacy organization. "We need to 
clean these sites up, not pave them over."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/nyregion/07contaminate.html

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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>
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