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I might be part of a team that deals with brownfield reuse, but since I’m on the communications side, I don’t always grasp the technical stuff. RLF? MARC? TBA? They’re just acronyms to me! But after attending the Washington Brownfield Worksh...

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...

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...

Useful data is the key ingredient in a successful brownfield project and many steps in the reuse cycle will be out of reach until such details are developed. From basic facts about a property’s size and terrain, to more advanced intel on contaminants an...

A Targeted Brownfield Assessment (TBA) is often the best first step a community can take in redeveloping a brownfield — any property where reuse might be complicated by environmental contamination. CCLR sat down with EPA Region 9 to learn more about thi...

Karen Homolac started her career in government serving an unlikely population — unprocessed salmon and herring. Now, after decades in the service of the public, Homolac has retired from her 21 year tenure at Business Oregon, Oregon State’s economic de...