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Join us for “Demystifying Data: Boosting Land Reuse Grants with EJ Data.” This presentation delves into the power of environmental justice data platforms to create compelling and competitive land reuse grant applications. Learn which tools are availab...
Get the skinny on beefy risks of reusing brownfields. Think forever chemicals, toxic vapors and on-site surprises. Think building in flood- and fire-prone areas. Blown budgets. Financial exposure of cities, consultants and contractors. You can’t get mor...
Grant funding is often limited to municipalities, tribes, and nonprofits, but these groups often lack the experience and horsepower to take on a complex Brownfield site. Mr. Squire will present a case study of a municipal public-private partnership where...
The processes of gentrification and displacement intersect with several socio-economic factors. These intertwined processes are shaping many local communities across the nation leading to significant neighborhood changes. Investments to cleanup and redeve...
Regulatory oversight is a vital component of the cleanup to build up process for brownfields. Municipalities, nonprofits, property owners, buyers and builders choose to involve environmental agencies in order to protect the community throughout the enviro...
On June 28, 2024, the United States Supreme Court upended decades of precedent by overturning the Chevron doctrine in the combined cases of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce (Case Nos. 22-451 and 22-1219). ...
Assessing a site’s environmental conditions for remediation AND redevelopment takes a different approach. Typically, consultants focus on health risk and threats to groundwater, and pay no attention to what happens when the contaminated soil has to be e...
Infill properties that are well-suited for affordable housing redevelopment are frequently in urban areas with low level VOCs in soil vapor. The current Cal-EPA vapor intrusion (VI) policy has resulted in an increased number of properties requiring a VI e...
Parks are critical for our communities, but 100 million people (including 28 million kids) don’t have access to a park within a 10-minute walk of home. Cities struggle to maintain older parks, as property tax base grows thinner and needs escalate. Who�...