[CPEO-BIF] Legal appeal on New York regs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Groups Appeal Brownfield Court ruling

Associated Press
WWTI Newswatch 50 (Watertown, NY)
April 2, 2008
			
(Albany, N.Y.) AP -- Environmental groups are appealing a state Supreme 
Court judge's ruling that upheld brownfield cleanup standards issued by 
the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Judge Christopher Cahill in Albany ruled in February that the DEC had 
correctly implemented the brownfields law that encourages companies to 
clean up and reuse polluted sites such as former gas stations and 
abandoned factories.

Environmental Advocates, the New York Public Interest Research Group, 
the Sierra Club, and Citizens Environmental Coalition say what was "once 
hailed as landmark environmental legislation" has become "watered down" 
and fails to protect public health and the environment.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.newswatch50.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=60dfcea4-2eb0-4890-9cf0-649a16dff50a

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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