Davidson, Dan. “Brownfields Legislation is Helping Us Stay Green.” Mustang Journal of Law & Legal Studies (2011): 9 – 16. Print.
The author, a professor of Business Law at Radford University in Virginia, outlines Superfund and other relative legislature to support his thesis that there is a correlation between the location of brownfields in urban centers and the tendency of commerce to develop away from these centers. He believes that fear of being financially responsible for cleaning up these sites – under CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act a.k.a. Superfund) a current owner of a Superfund site is potentially responsible for helping with the cost of clean up – turns people away from restoration and redevelopment and towards zoning new land and growing urban centers outwards. He also describes grants that the EPA gives out in order to provide incentive for brownfields clean up, potential solutions for reclaiming these areas, and certain effects of revitalizing programs that are beginning to show.
This article is very relevant to our projects as it lays out many of the difficulties in getting the public (in particular, businesses), as opposed to the federal government, to help bail out these polluted sites as well as describing the different laws in place affecting brownfields areas.
Interesting source. I’m having trouble reconciling your account of the piece with the title. How does the legislation help us “stay green”?