Several years ago, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a book whose thesis statement posited that it "takes a village" to raise a child. Since then, it has become popular to apply "it takes a village" to other tasks. It "takes a village" to successfully operate an elementary school, to run a business, to do almost anything requiring the cooperation of two or more parties.

 

 

This is essentially 4 questions in 1, which need to be addressed separately:

 

First – Are sites with asbestos considered brownfields under EPA’s brownfields program?

In this case, yes, EPA allows brownfields funds to assess and remediate for asbestos.

 

The US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system awards points for brownfield and infill development projects. The total number of points earned for these features depends on the site and the project.

 

You can find a list of available brownfield sites for redevelopment, but it’s actually much more complicated and nuanced than it appears. The greatest challenge in finding suitable sites is that there isn’t standard criteria for determining whether or not a given property is a “brownfield.” This is because it is not simply the contamination itself that makes a property a brownfield, but rather the effect this contamination has on the ability of a property to realize its highest and best use.