[CPEO-BIF] Biofuels from brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Greening the state's brownfields: MSU program tries to convert polluted 
sites to crops
Dumping grounds can grow plants for fuel, not food

By Matthew Miller
Lansing State Journal
August 22, 2006

Kurt Thelen is growing crops in polluted soil this summer.

His plots of corn and switchgrass, soybeans, sunflowers and canola are 
planted on a former Superfund site in Oakland County, land used in the 
late 1960s as a dumping ground for lead paint sludge and other 
industrial chemicals.

The crops he's growing there will be too toxic for human consumption. 
But these crops aren't meant for the dinner table.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060822/NEWS06/608220336/1001/opinion

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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
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