[CPEO-BIF] Hawai'i brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleaning up Hawaii Brownfields


By Paul Drewes
KHNL TV-8 News (Honolulu, HI)
February 13, 2008

(KAKAAKO) - There are hundreds of properties in Hawaii that could be 
contaminated from oil, lead or pesticides but increasingly, developers 
are being drawn to these sites, known as brownfields.

In Kakaako, kids are having a ball at the Children's Discovery Center.

In the nearly 40-thousand foot facility, kids can let their imaginations 
run wild, as parents let their kids go wild. "Its a place where children 
and parents can learn and grow together thru the most important way that 
children learn through play," said the Children's Discovery Center 
President, Loretta Yajima.

But the colorful place has a darker history.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=7863658

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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