[CPEO-BIF] Albany Times-Union editorial on New York State's Brownfield Cleanup Program

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clean up this cleanup law

Editorial
Albany Times-Union (NY
January 11, 2014

THE ISSUE:

An old program to clean and develop contaminated sites is wasting  
billions of dollars.

THE STAKES:

A more focused program would achieve important environmental and  
economic goals.

What started out as a well-intentioned law to encourage the cleanup  
and redevelopment of contaminated sites in New York state has become  
an extraordinarily costly program of questionable public value. But  
it doesn't have to be like this.

With the Brownfield Cleanup Program nearing its end in 2015, New York  
has an opportunity to write a better law that can achieve what the  
existing one should have - the cleanup and redevelopment of  
properties that developers and businesses would otherwise shy away from.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Editorial-Clean-up-this- 
cleanup-law-5134486.php

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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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