[CPEO-BIF] Telegram and Gazette building, Worcester, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

 NY Times Corp Leaves Taxpayer on the Hook for Contamination in  
Worcester

Stephen Beale
GoLocal Worcester (MA)
June 22, 2012

The New York Times, Company has sold a contaminated Worcester  
Telegram and Gazette building to a local development agency, leaving  
taxpayers on the hook for potentially up to $1.1 million in cleanup  
costs.

Before the sale, Telegram and Gazette publisher Bruce Gaultney  
publicly promised that the building was "not a brownfield."

But subsequent environmental tests uncovered extensive contamination  
from lead, asbestos, and other hazardous materials.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.golocalworcester.com/news/ny-times-corp-leaves-taxpayer-on- 
the-hook-for-contamination-in-worcest/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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