Nearly 200 Poor Communities Awarded $76 Million to Clean Up, Redevelop Industrial Sites

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The EPA estimates that the US has more than 450,000 brownfields sites, abandoned industrial and commercial facilities
By Marla Cone and Environmental Health News | June 7, 2011 | 1

In Augusta, Maine, an old paper mill that operated for more than a century will be turned into a new hotel and conference center.

In Chicago, soil and ground water polluted with dry-cleaning solvents will be cleaned up to make room for a new library in a poor neighborhood.

On an Indian reservation in Arizona, a contaminated tanning factory will be turned into a new industrial park, perhaps one that makes solar panels.

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nearly-200-poor-communities-awarded-76million-clean-up-redevelop-industrial-sites

[pinto]

1. Money well spent.

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[RKP5637]

2. Recommend!!! n/t

[progressoid]

3. Wow, that's what we spend in 7 hours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[n2doc]

5. Imagine what could be done with that money wasted on wars

We might actually put a dent in the 450,000 sites contaminated number, and improve employment. But the mil-industrial complex wouldn't like that.

[Nihil]

4. Good move! K&R (n/t)

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