[CPEO-BIF] Connecticut "brownfield proposal called 'window dressing'"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New brownfield proposal called 'window dressing'



BY JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL
CONNECTICUT MIRROR
October 22, 2011

Among the items in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's jobs package for next  
week's special session is one on brownfields -- those polluted  
properties that have become darlings of the environmental and  
economic revitalization sectors in recent years.

The package earmarks $20 million to develop and market five to-be- 
determined state-owned brownfield sites, to review and ultimately  
consolidate existing programs, and to create a more comprehensive  
brownfields website.

"Window dressing," said Barry Trilling, an environmental and climate  
change attorney with Wiggin & Dana in Stamford. "We passed the law we  
needed this past summer and now we have to implement it."


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For the entire article, see
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2011/10/22/business/593689.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>
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