[CPEO-BIF] Should taxpayers pay for brownfields? The Allegheny County, Pennsylvania debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Allegheny exec aspirants disagree on who should clear sites
By Mike Wereschagin
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW (PA)
April 19, 2011

Some of the key components to Allegheny County's future lie among the  
relics of its old economy, but the men vying for the county's top job  
disagree on how to reuse the polluted industrial sites abandoned by  
heavy manufacturing.

Redeveloping these brownfields was a centerpiece of County Executive  
Dan Onorato's economic development strategy for the past seven years.  
Now the candidates running to replace him disagree on how and whether  
taxpayers should foot the bill to clean up the sites, and three of  
the four question how effective Onorato's strategy has been.

County officials don't know how much they've spent cleaning up the  
sites, but their 2011 budget includes $44 million in state grants for  
rehabilitating brownfields and other land around Pittsburgh  
International Airport.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/ 
s_732871.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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