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CCLR assisted 91% of the EPA Brownfields Grant selectees in Regions 9 and 10, securing $30.9 million in funding The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the selectees of its latest Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (ARC) Grants. A total of 214 grant awards, amounting to over $224 million in crucial funding, will […]
By Tansy Massey-Green and Matthew Popkin from RMI The US boasts over 624 active brightfields – clean energy projects on brownfields and closed landfills. Most people would assume that these projects are predominantly built in sunny and windy states like...
Many who work in niche fields like brownfield reuse will tell you the work can be lonely. “Brownfield practitioners can be very isolated in their job, sometimes you are the only one doing what you do at your organization,” says CCLR Senior Planning Co...
Senior Brownfield Revitalization Consultant Joy Britt & Senior Program Associate Lujain Altawarah recall their week at the Guam Conference on Island Sustainability We are still buzzing with gratitude and excitement from a truly unforgettable week atte...
What would you do with 2 acres of land long abandoned and now home to six shipping containers and one lonely storage tank? Can you see a future for a vacant lot where a chemicals company manufactured pesticides for 15 years? This is the challenge CCLR and...
Public parks are essential components of healthy neighborhoods. In a park ecosystem plants enrich soil, soil feeds plants, plants house and nourish worms, song birds and squirrels. That same park absorbs run off to reduce flooding or serves as a buffer to...
Smithers West Virginia is a scenic small city of 950 residents embraced between a bend in the Kanawha River and the Appalachian Mountains. Like many towns in the region, Smithers began as a coal camp for mining employees and once hosted coal processing fa...
