[CPEO-BIF] Spitzer's NY brownfields proposal "needs a rewrite"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Let this blight shine

Spitzer's brownfields cleanup plan - hatched in private - needs a rewrite

By ERROL LOUIS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST
June 7, 2007

A bill introduced by Gov. Spitzer this week is a welcome step toward 
eliminating New York's brownfields - defunct factories, gas stations and 
other contaminated sites that sit unused for years because nobody wants 
the legal and economic headache of cleaning them up.

With admirable urgency, the governor is trying to get the Legislature to 
pass a law before the session ends next week.

But the Spitzer bill needs an overhaul - and the problem could have been 
avoided if the governor's staff had spent more time gathering public input.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/06/07/2007-06-07_let_this_blight_shine.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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