[CPEO-BIF] "Senators push bill updating brownfields program"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senators push bill updating brownfields program


By Devin Henry 
The Hill
June 2, 2015

Top senators on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee have introduced a bill to reauthorize the federal brownfields program, an Environmental Protection Agency effort to clean up former industrial areas where the land is too polluted for redevelopment. 

The bill, sponsored by EPW chairman Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) would make a host of changes to the program, including creating technical assistance grants for communities, expanding eligibility for brownfields funding and increasing the maximum size of the program's grants.

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For the entire article, see
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/243780-senators-push-bill-updating-brownfields-program

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