[CPEO-BIF] Brownfields Workforce Development in Brooklyn (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Green Jobs for Brownfields

By Aaron Short
Courier-Life Publications (NY)
November 11, 2009

With two polluted waterways facing Superfund designation, scores of 
brownfields to remediate and countless buildings to abate, Brooklyn's 
environmental workers will be busy in the coming years.

Williamsburg-based St Nicks Alliance, formerly named the St. Nicholas 
Neighborhood Preservation Corporation, should continue to be at the 
center of these cleanup efforts as Brooklyn’s labor market of skilled 
workers look to meet the demand of development and green building in the 
borough.

On November 9, Environmental Protection Agency officials, Congressmember 
Nydia Velazquez (D-Williamsburg) and Councilmember-elect Diana Reyna 
(D-Williamsburg), visited St. Nicks Alliance's Workforce Development 
center (790 Broadway) to celebrate its receipt of a $500,000 American 
Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant and the renovation of its Broadway 
Avenue space.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/11/11/brooklyn/courier_frontpage_stnicksepa.txt

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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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