From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:34:36 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Final Report on CPEO's "Community to Community" Brownfields Assistance Project |
Final Report: “Community to Community” Brownfields Assistance Project October, 2013The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO), a project of the Pacific Studies Center, is concluding its five-year “Community to Community Brownfields Assistance Project, supported by a Research, Training, and Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement (#TR-83415001) from U.S. EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization. Among other accomplishments, under this project CPEO has conducted 116 field visits to 71 communities in 20 states, published 28 on-line field visit reports, circulated nearly 2,700 messages on its Brownfields Internet Forum, maintained its Technology Tree remediation/characterization technology data base, and provided scholarships enabling more than 210 environmental justice participants to attend the last three national Brownfields Conferences. CPEO Executive Director Lenny Siegel spoke at numerous conferences and provided information to a large number of reporters, conveying community concerns and clarifying technical issues. The objectives of CPEO’s Brownfields program are to educate community stakeholders about the brownfields cleanup and revitalization process, to empower them to participate effectively, and to learn and communicate concerns expressed by those stakeholders to government officials and other brownfields professionals. In pursuing those closely related objectives, CPEO emphasizes field work: visits to communities and continuing communications with community representatives. ... To read the entire 8-page report, go to http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Community-to-Community.pdf -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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