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  • Let me also say that our cities are full of what we call Brownfields -- urban toxic waste sites.

    President Remarks To The People Of Kalamazoo Mi ITY National Archives 1996

  • "Brownfields" -- unused eyesores that devalue surrounding property -- make up 10 percent of the city today.

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS 2010

  • Here in St. Louis I was talking to the Mayor about something called the Brownfields initiative.

    President Remarks To People Of St Louis Area ITY National Archives 1996

  • A second round of empowerment zones and enterprise communities, along with new tax incentives to encourage companies to clean up abandoned industrial sites, known as Brownfields, in economically distressed rural and urban areas.

    Briefing By Rivlin Summers And Stiglitz On Budget ITY National Archives 1996

  • Between the funds we're trying to give the cities to clean up environmentally-polluted areas to make them attractive for new investments again, the so-called Brownfields initiative -- and we're going to try to triple the number of these empowerment zones -- I believe that you can have this story repeat itself.

    President Remarks In Welfare Reform Roundtable ITY National Archives 1996

  • The only reason why call Brownfields is because they are in association with our existing ore, anybody else would be looking at the size of the reserves that are involved in these opportunities that they have been on so far, we'd call those opportunities Greenfields, because they're so large.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • LOS ANGELES, CA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today the availability of an estimated $111.9 million in grants bolstered by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to help communities clean up sites known as Brownfields, which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants.

    Hawaii Reporter 2009

  • LOS ANGELES, CA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today the availability of an estimated $111.9 million in grants bolstered by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to help communities clean up sites known as Brownfields, which may be contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants.

    Hawaii Reporter 2009

  • "Brownfields" to "Bright Fields" - investment in new, clean energy is per se good, and particularly good when it transforms a community at the heart of old, shuttered, industrial sites, with the legacy of pollution.

    Henry Henderson: Solar for the South Side: A 'Can Do' Plan for Urban Solar Array in Chicago? 2009

  • Urban Biofilter Project Plants Bamboo Forests to Clean up Brownfields Bamboo forest by Caseyyee – Inhabitat about mission submit a story shop advertise with us support us press contact sign up

    Urban Biofilter Project Plants Bamboo Forests to Clean up Brownfields Bamboo forest by Caseyyee – Inhabitat 2010

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