[CPEO-BIF] Mayors to lobby

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Advocates optimistic Congress will fund brownfields program

Raju Chebium
Gannett News Service
Lafayette Daily Advertiser (LA)
December 17, 2006

Local politicians from around the country will be knocking on the doors 
of Congress when Democrats take over next month, asking for more money 
to clean up thousands of polluted properties in cities and towns nationwide.

These eyesores - former gas stations, dry cleaning shops, factories and 
waste dumps - are called brownfields. States began cleaning them up in 
the mid-1990s using public money and tax incentives.

There are between 450,000 and 1 million sites awaiting cleanup so 
communities can reuse them for new homes, shopping malls and schools.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, a prominent advocate for brownfield 
cleanup, is looking for more federal help to put these sites back into 
circulation.

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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