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The brownfields funding landscape is shifting. FY27 EPA brownfield grants are reduced compared to FY26 as Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) dollars wind down. The decrease was anticipated, but it will still leave many current and potential grantees without a clear path to cleanup and reuse. Compounding this, strained state […]
CCLR helped secure $14 million in EPA Brownfield funding in Regions 9 and 10 On May 20th, the EPA announced 183 FY24 Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup (MAC) grant awardees across the United States. The Center for Creative Land Recycling (CCLR) played a...
Join CCLR September 17-19 in Carson, CA for the 5th California Land Recycling Conference (CALRC) and connect with a diversity of practitioners dedicated to sustainable land reuse. Our 2024 theme, From the Ground Up, reflects the hope inherent in brownfiel...
Land reuse and community revitalization takes time, money, and resources, but you don’t have to navigate the process alone. Historic investment in environmental justice and climate resilience is supporting more technical assistance (TA) providers than e...
A lack of affordable housing is a nationwide challenge, but the problem is especially acute in California. In the Golden State, 77% of California’s Extremely Low-Income Renter Households have a Severe Cost Burden according to the National Low Income Hou...
April is a beautiful time in Arizona that, to me, is characterized by the yellow of the palo verde and brittlebush wildflowers. Now the month will also be characterized by brown, as in brownfields. Between April 23 and 25, CCLR logged more than 500 miles ...
You might be familiar with mushrooms on a tree stump or your pizza, but did you know mushrooms can be used for pollution cleanup? As nature’s decomposers, this is the job fungi were made for! CCLR is dedicated to pursuing creative solutions to land revi...
