| From: | Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Tue, 12 May 2026 10:05:06 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "'In Las Vegas, EPA dollars go a long way for clean-ups" |
From polluted to paradise: In Las Vegas, EPA dollars go a long way for clean-ups By Alan Halaly Las Vegas Review-Journal May 11, 2026 For decades, petroleum and arsenic seeped into the groundwater aquifer below a Union Pacific Railroad rail yard a stone’s throw from Fremont Boulevard. Today, after the city of Las Vegas leveraged millions in Environmental Protection Agency funding and private capital, the city and federal agency say it’s one of the nation’s biggest environmental success stories, where a so-called polluted “brownfield” became a community asset — Symphony Park. Kurt Goebel, senior vice president, principal geologist and environmental division manager at the firm Converse Consultants, said he has worked on the project with the city for years. During a Nevada Brownfields Conference tour of sites across the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday, Goebel said Symphony Park’s transformation shows what is possible when local governments, nonprofits, tribes or developers make use of federal dollars to clean up brownfields. … For the entire article, see https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/environment/from-polluted-to-paradise-in-las-vegas-epa-dollars-go-a-long-way-for-clean-ups-3822506 — 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 | |
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