[CPEO-BIF] New York City's "Slow Start"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NYC Brownfields Reclamation Effort Gets Off to Slow Start

By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD
Greenwire/New York Times
November 22, 2010



NEW YORK -- The city this summer enthusiastically rolled out what its 
promoters say is the nation's only municipally led brownfield cleanup 
program.

But few developers have jumped to participate in the effort to reclaim 
abandoned industrial and commercial property.

Daniel Walsh, who directs the city's new Office of Environmental 
Remediation (OER), isn't fretting about the program's slow start, saying 
it is only natural that a pioneering effort would require upfront time 
and work.

"It takes a real will," he said. "Building an office and creating this 
infrastructure is not easy ... but ultimately somebody has got to do it 
first."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/11/22/22greenwire-nyc-brownfields-reclamation-effort-gets-off-to-11412.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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