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In the absence of funding … The Center for Public
Environmental Oversight began as CAREER/PRO at San Francisco State University
in 1993. I was named Director in 1994. It changed its name to CPEO and moved to
the Tides Center before landing at the Pacific Studies Center, a small Mountain
View non-profit that I have headed since 1970. While our original program
included job training at environmental sites, our major focus has been to
promote and assist community engagement in the cleanup of military facilities,
Superfund sites, and brownfields. Over the years we have visited
scores, if not hundreds of communities to provide technical assistance,
participated in innumerable conferences and committees, and published literally
thousands of newsgroup messages. We built an extensive library of reports and categorized
files on military environmental issues, Superfund, and brownfields. Our principal source of funds
was the federal government, notably U.S. EPA and the Department of Defense.
Last year the last of that money ran out, and there is no immediate prospect
for new funding. I am no longer on salary, so I am no longer able to visit and
help contaminated communities. The donations we receive do not even cover our
rent. So we will immediately scale
back our postings on the Brownfields Internet Forum and Military Environmental
Forum. Unless new revenue is found, we will terminate the newsgroups and close
our office/library by March, 2020. We are looking for repositories to take our
material. I had hoped to continue this
work for several more years, but in the absence of funding it doesn’t make
sense. Lenny
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Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918
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