Science and Technology of New York City

This article discusses the different contaminants found in the Canal. This source is unbiased because it is a presentation of results. The article states that there are high levels of polycyclic aromatic compounds, lead, copper, and mercury in the water. It’s ultimate goal is to incite action. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/e99317da92c631ce8525782b0057e138!OpenDocument&Highlight=2,risk – Jessen T.

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This paper does not have an author and is merely a report that discusses the overall topics of all superfund projects in 2004. Since the EPA published this and it’s being reported on by another source, there may be some bias in the wording maybe downplaying some failures and exaggerating on some of the positive […]

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The author Dan Davidson is Professor of Business Law, Chair of Accounting, and Finance and Business Law at Radford University.  In his paper, he argues that superfund sites are the future of brownfields because they can fulfill all pillars of sustainability. He claims that superfunds help the environment because the clean up the land, create […]

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This paper does not list an author and does not contain a thesis because it discusses the background and outcome of a Supreme Court case. In the case, a business sues the EPA because a part of a company’s land was fenced off because contaminates from a nearby superfund site went to his area. In […]

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Janet Currie is the Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Director of the Center for Health and Well-Being at Princeton University. In this paper she tries to find out the effect of site cleanups on infant health. At the end of her results, she decides that it is inconclusive as it can be debated whether […]

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The author Amy Nagengast is a doctorial student at Carnegie Mellon University in Civil and Environmental Engineering focusing on sustainability issues. The author’s thesis is that greenfields actually use more resources than brownfields because they are usually further away from the center from the city. Also, brownfield areas use more public transportation and have a […]

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Georgiana Popescu was a doctoral student at the University of Bucharest. He tries to explain to the reader how a brownfield should be developed and how it can be reused in a sustainable matter. The main premise of his paper is that cities should reuse brownfields and use less greenfields because it’s important to reuse […]

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The author of this paper is Robert Krzysztofik, an economic geographer and professor at the University of Silesia in Poland. Although he is not a professor that is based in America, the problem of Brownfields is worldwide. His thesis is that the only way to deal with brownfields is to either repair it environmentally or […]

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