A $35,000 Brownfield Grant has been issued to the City of Manitowoc to help pay for the assessment of potential environmental contamination at an area property. The grant was announced by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Monday, with the funds coming from the DNR's Wisconsin Assessment Monies program.

The U.S. EPA is proposing to add the sites of two former Georgetown dry cleaning businesses to the agency's Superfund national priorities list. The site is to be known as the Georgetown North Groundwater site and includes the locations of the former Georgetown Dry Cleaners and Thoro-Kleen Dry Cleaners.

The Brownfield Cleanup Program is set to expire this year, unless state legislators authorize a renewal. Supporters of the program would like to see that done as part of the budget. Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed a ten-year renewal, but the legislature hasn't made the same commitment. The state Senate has recommended extending the program for five years.

A public session was held during the business meeting of the Clearfield County Industrial Development Authority to offer a progress report on the remediation of the former Howe's Leather property in Curwensville. In 2020, the U.S. EPA announced it had awarded CCEDC a $500,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant to continue rehabilitation of the property. CCEDC acquired the property in 2014 and has been overseeing work to cleanup the property since that time.

New legislation introduced aims to bring new economic developments to former industrial or brownfield sites, such as Buick City in Flint. The Rust to Revitalization Act would allow Buick City and other former industrial and brownfields sites across the country to qualify as Opportunity Zones, hopefully generating investment and environmental renewal.

The ribbon cutting for DSD Renewables' new 7.5MW community solar project in Schenectady County, New York was met with considerably more fanfare than a typical project of its capacity. The state of New York has now reached more than 1GW of community solar installed and operational. The community solar project in Schenectady that triggered the benchmark is also notable for being a brownfield solar installation.

The U.S. EPA has finalized its decision to designate Greenpoint's Meeker Avenue Plume a Superfund site, setting the stage for a federally-supervised scrub of the site, possibly funded by the companies responsible for polluting the neighborhood. The roughly 50-block Plume is comprised of soil and groundwater contaminated with dangerous chlorinated volatile organic compounds.

The City Council approved a TIF supporting the $100M redevelopment of a long vacant brownfield and former industrial site into a new residential development that includes market rate and affordable housing units. The new development will also include public access to the Seekonk River and Omega Pond for the first time since the 1880's.

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