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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

IN OUR OPINION
Keep toxic cleanups going

Detroit Free Press
June 26, 2008

Awkward is probably too tepid a word to describe the bind the state 
Department of Environmental Quality finds itself in by running out the 
clock on brownfield cleanup money without a backup plan.
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Money from a 1998 Clean Michigan Initiative bond issue will be gone by 
Dec. 31, and the DEQ had initially hoped the next 10-year bond issue 
could go on the Nov. 4 ballot. But it has since become clear that no one 
has the political appetite this year to campaign for bonds, even for a 
program as popular and effective as brownfield cleanup.

The money has not only gotten rid of heaps of contamination, but spurred 
redevelopment in many places. Cities and many local chambers of commerce 
like it as much as environmentalists do. This time around, however, the 
Michigan Chamber of Commerce was not on board.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/OPINION01/806260341

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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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