[CPEO-BIF] "Cleanfields" Act

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New Jersey senator hopes to turn brownfields into wind and solar farms


James M. O'Neill
Bergen Record (NJ)
May 7, 2010

Utilities would be given new incentives to develop renewable energy 
projects like wind and solar farms on former industrial sites under a 
bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

A clean-energy bill making its way through Congress includes a provision 
that would require states to produce 15 percent of their electricity 
from renewable sources, and Lautenberg's bill would provide utilities 
with triple credits toward that goal if they build renewable energy 
facilities on brownfield sites rather than open space or other sensitive 
land.

A recent Northeast-Midwest Institute report indicated that only 1.4 
percent of brownfield sites are remediated annually, and the federal 
Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 4,100 brownfield sites 
nationwide hold potential for renewable energy development, according to 
Lautenberg's office.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/93048739_Lautenberg_shepherds_Cleanfields_Act.html

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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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