If we really want to help municipalities, we can help them find solutions to clean up those brownfields. |
The Minister recognized that these contaminated sites, known as brownfields, may have the potential to be cleaned up, thereby bringing health, environmental, and economic benefits to local communities. |
In the area of brownfields, where restoration programs have been carried out for many years, relatively low sums were determined. |
Just about every municipality has brownfields, such as a street corner where a service station used to be but which closed long ago. |
People on the street noticed the two boys, found them mismatched against the brownfields and storefronts, their faces rosy in the polluted light, copper-sulfite highlights in their hair. |
And he helped implement PlaNYC, a long-term scheme to build houses for up to 1m New Yorkers, link them to transport, clean up brownfields, plant 1m trees and improve air and water across the five boroughs. |