| From: | "Larry Schnapf" <Larry@schnapflaw.com> |
| Date: | Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:53:34 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | Re: [CPEO-BIF] "Buried Beneath: The Fight to Clean Up Toxic Brownfields in The Bronx, " New York |
And then there are all of the unknown contaminated sites that do not appear on any databases because the antiquated reporting obligations do not require disclosure of historic contamination discovered during due diligence. L Lawrence Schnapf 55 East 87th Street #8B New York, New York 10128 212-876-3189 (office)(primary) 917-576-3667(c) Larry@SchnapfLaw.com www.SchnapfLaw.com 2016-17 Chair- NYSBA Environmental Law Section AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell Listed in New York Super Lawyers-Metro Edition 2010-22 Listed in Super Lawyers-Business Edition 2011-22 Listed in The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers 2008-22 Chambers USA Client Guide of America's Leading Lawyers for Business Adjunct Professor of Law- New York Law School (Courses: Environmental Law and Practice; Brownfields; Real Estate Finance and Transactions) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE - This email may contain material that is confidential, privileged and/or attorney work product for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, reliance or distribution by other forwarding without express permission is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender of the error and delete the message and delete all copies. -----Original Message----- From: Brownfields <brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org> On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 5:22 PM To: Brownfields Internet Forum <brownfields@lists.cpeo.org> Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Buried Beneath: The Fight to Clean Up Toxic Brownfields in The Bronx, " New York Buried Beneath: The Fight to Clean Up Toxic Brownfields in The Bronx By CUNY Lehman Journalism Team. City Limits (NY) January 30, 2023 During the Fall 2022 semester, Lehman College journalism students conducted an investigation on the prevalence of toxic brownfield sites in The Bronx. Using public information, research into federal lobbying records and interviews with experts and residents, the student journalists set out to understand how this contamination happened and why progress towards remediation was so slow. All across the Bronx there are toxic chemicals in the ground, hazardous enough to the people who live and work nearby that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has ordered them cleaned up. Yet years—and in some cases decades—after the dangers were identified, the toxic substances are still here, unremediated. Vacant lots near schools and parks, former industrial properties right beside housing, lots that abut community gardens: sites polluted with substances the state identified as harmful and in some cases, cancer-causing, are patchworked across the borough. As of publication, there are 53 such locations that the DEC has identified as posing a risk to humans and that are classified as under an “active” remediation plan (when we began the project, there were 59). There are scores more sites where remediation is not active. But active doesn’t mean bulldozers are removing noxious soil or that chemicals that leech through vapor in the soil are being neutralized through alternate processes. It just means a slow and halting administrative process is underway. … For the entire article, see https://citylimits.org/2023/01/30/buried-beneath-the-fight-to-clean-up-toxic-brownfields-in-the-bronx/ — Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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