House Republicans want to make more grants available to developers. They also want to exempt projects from certain reviews.

According to the EPA, a brownfield is "a property where expansion, redevelopment or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant." ...

Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story. While Congress and President Bush allow the Superfund cleanup program to bleed out, they’re pumping money into a related program called ...

Four New Jersey communities will receive $3 million through a recent round of federal grant funding. The awards come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) Brownfields Multipurpose, ...

On November 16, 2023, Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH-10) and Mikie Sherill (D-NJ-11) reintroduced the bipartisan Brownfields Redevelopment Tax Incentive Reauthorization Act (H.R. 6438) (BRTIRA). BRTIRA ...

A Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee will hear from witnesses on how to improve the cleanup and redevelopment effort. Interest in EPA’s brownfields program is growing, as House Republicans ...

Brownfields play a pivotal but often underappreciated role in economic development. These underutilized or abandoned industrial or commercial sites, often burdened with real or perceived contamination ...

A national program for cleaning up contaminated sites is dogged by funding shortages and a lack of oversight that puts lower-income communities at a disadvantage in obtaining federal support, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The city of Barstow received two grants that will reduce the risk among developers who may want to target certain land parcels or ...