[CPEO-BIF] Bartsch in Portland (Oregon)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA development guru sees brownfield gold

by Andy Giegerich
Portland Business Journal (OR)
June 14, 2012

When most environmental analysts look at such areas as upper  
Northwest Portland's industrial sites, they see a lot of empty and  
contaminated properties.

Charlie Bartsch, on the other hand, sees opportunities, and plenty of  
them. Bartsch is a senior adviser to Mathy Stanislaus, the  
Environmental Protection Agency's assistant administrator. As the  
agency's first economic development adviser, he travels around the  
country and checks out brownfield sites - or lots sullied by  
industrial fluids that require extra money to redevelop - like those  
around the Willamette River's Superfund site.

"Oregon is a leader because they're mixing the business and the  
environmental sides," said Bartsch, who's in town for the 2012  
Brownfields Conference and Awards event that wraps up today at the  
Lloyd District's DoubleTree by Hilton Portland hotel. "(The state's  
economic development department) Business Oregon has played a key  
role in driving a lot of projects."



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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2012/06/top-epa-biz- 
development-guru-sees-green.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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