Under current Wisconsin law, a property owner is generally liable for contamination regardless of when the pollution occurred and regardless of who caused the contamination. There are some limited exceptions for qualifying local governments, lenders, impacted neighbors and persons, but Wisconsin does not provide these protections for a buyer who wants to knowingly purchase a contaminated property.

The Hawaii Energy Office and state Department of Health have created an online map that identifies contaminated lands that officials hope developers can turn into renewable energy sites. The Hawaii Brightfields Initiative grew out of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's brownfield program that aims to clean up contaminated sites.

2019 has been another year of progress toward the revitalization of the former Beech-Nut food processing plant, Montgomery County's major economic development project. In 2016, the county received a $500,000 Restore New York grant; in February 2017, it received a $300,000 Brownfield Redevelopment grant from National Grid; and in February 2018, it received a $6 million Restore New York grant.

The EPA awarded $200,000 to the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa. The funds are appropriated for environmental workforce development and job training. CDC community and business partners will use the funds to assist in the training and hiring of unemployed and underemployed residents in well paid careers in brownfield assessment and cleanup and solid and hazardous waste management.

The sunset of a tax is quickly bankrupting the state's hazardous cleanup program, and there's no plan in place to fix it. Within a few years, the state program funding these environmental cleanups, along with scores of others littered across the commonwealth, is projected to be flat broke.

This bipartisan bill restores an expired tax incentive allowing developers to fully deduct the costs of environmental remediation of brownfields in the year the costs were incurred. The Brownfields Tax Incentive first passed in 1997. It allowed taxpayers to deduct remediation expenditures for the cleanup of a property if the property was used for a trade, business, or producing income.

EPA is proposing a cleanup plan that includes a combination of technologies and methods to address the former paint manufacturing plant and adjoining areas of the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Superfund Site in Gibbsboro. EPA's study of these areas shows that soil and sediment are contaminated with arsenic and lead, and soil in other areas are contaminated with paint solvents.

Total cost of the project was $34 million with funding coming from city of Lakewood planning and permit fee waivers, Jefferson County, the Colorado Division of Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, low-income housing tax credit equity, Key Bank, Environmental Protection Agency, Xcel Energy utility rebates, solar tax credits and MWHS funds.

CDFA // BNY Mellon Development Finance Webcast Series: Sourcing Local Capital for Community Projects
Tuesday. December 17, 2019 - 1:00 PM Eastern

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