Senators Urged To Defer EPA Brownfield Sites To States To Speed Cleanups

As EPA prepares to spend $3.5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law (BIL) on brownfields cleanup and redevelopment, site redevelopers are urging senators to defer EPA oversight of the contaminated sites to state programs, as well as other steps that they say will help speed cleanups. During a Sept. 28 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) hearing on brownfields revitalization, Gerald Pouncey, chairman of Morris, Manning, & Martin LLC, who is experienced in brownfields acquisition and redevelopment, urged the...