[CPEO-BIF] New York Senator "Schumer pushes for cleanup of vacant gas stations"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Schumer pushes for cleanup of vacant gas stations


by Jessica Bakeman
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
July 19, 2012

ALBANY - Sen. Charles Schumer is pushing for the renewal of a federal  
program that would clean up vacant gas stations and the contaminated  
land that surrounds them, arguing that they are safety hazards and  
deter economic development.

Schumer, a Democrat from Brooklyn, announced Wednesday he would seek  
approval in Congress to restart a program that would provide tax  
incentives for cleaning up brownfields, stretches of land  
contaminated by fuel or other pollutants.

The Brownfields Tax Incentives would allow all environmental clean-up  
costs at eligible properties to be tax deductible in the year the  
work was conducted. New York also provides financial perks for  
cleaning up and developing such wasteland.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20120718/NEWS10/307180053/ 
Schumer-pushes-cleanup-vacant-gas-stations

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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
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