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Brownfields

Municipal Wells

Downtown Madison built on coal ash

By | December 25, 2014

Before coal ash was more regulated, companies dumped tons of it in low areas of the Isthmus and elsewhere. Whether it has contaminated Madison’s water is unclear.

Brownfields

Wasted Places: Brownfields stories from our collaborators

By | September 23, 2012

Wasted Places is a collaborative investigation by six nonprofit newsrooms into federal and state programs designed to cleanup and redevelop polluted tracts known as brownfields.The project was coordinated by the Investigative News Network, and reported and written by the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, City Limits, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and INN.

Brownfields

Map: Brownfields nationwide

By | September 23, 2012

Sites that have been funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s brownfields program, as of August 2012.

Economy

Wasted Places: Slow, underfunded EPA program falls short in toxic site cleanups

By Kate Golden | September 23, 2012

The stated goals of the federal government’s Brownfields Program are to fund the cleanup of contamination, to improve the quality of life of blighted communities and to provide economic stimulus. But an investigation by nonprofit newsrooms across the country, coordinated by the Investigative News Network, found problems in every community examined.

Brownfields

Recession worsens brownfields backlog in Wisconsin

By | September 23, 2012

While the state has made some progress with the backlog in the past two decades, a “startling” number of plant closings during the recent recession has created “an entirely new generation of brownfields,” according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

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