[CPEO-BIF] Bethlehem Steel, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Governor's award presented for work at ex-Steel site

Lehigh Valley Industrial Park was first to take part in brownfield team.

By Steve Esack
Allentown Morning Call (PA)
April 13, 2006

It rained in Bethlehem in August 2004 when government and business 
officials ceremoniously picked up shovels to begin the monumental task 
of making something usable out of what they described as the largest 
privately owned brownfield in the United States.

Nearly two years later, sunshine fittingly replaced rain as some of the 
same officials came back to the South Side to declare partial success in 
using a new state environmental law to help return big businesses to the 
old contaminated Bethlehem Steel site.

"We are in this for the long haul," Kathleen A. McGinty, secretary of 
the state Department of Environmental Protection, said in the shadow of 
a state-of-the-art, 120,000-square-foot refrigeration warehouse in a new 
industrial park.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/all-4mcgintyapr13,0,4978789.story?coll=all-newslocalbethlehem-hed

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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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