If you thought your clothes were filthy before you took them to the dry cleaner, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to let you in on a dirty little secret: the dry cleaning solvent tetrachloroethylene, also known by the slightly pithier moniker perchloroethylene, has been considered by the EPA to be a possible or probable human [...]
Archive for the ‘Brownfields’ Category
18 Feb
Why Derelict Government Buildings are Like Brownfields, Why that Matters, and Why Paintballers are Paying Attention
Here’s a follow-up on last week’s “Don’t Forget to Turn Off the Lights Before You Leave,” our post about President Obama’s June 2010 directive to the federal government to dispose of unneeded and underutilized property — and about the GAO’s subsequent Testimony, released last week, reporting that the process was hitting a lot of speed [...]
22 Oct
Renewing, Reusing, Redeveloping Brownfields
Last week, the EPA announced the release of their freshly drafted Management Plan for the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative. The Initiative was launched more than two years ago in an effort to promote brownfields (contaminated lands) as candidates for renewable energy facility sites, and the management plan lays out Initiative goals for the next two [...]
