EPA announces $300m funding to clean up US former industrial sites
by Kyle Bagenstose from on (#6MZA5)
Environmental Protection Agency says brownfield revitalization spending has quadrupled under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $300m in new funding to clean up and redevelop 200 industrial sites across the country.
Speaking on Monday from what was once an oil station in south-west Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood, the EPA's administrator, Michael Regan, said his agency would allocate $2m to transform the site - which officials say is contaminated with lead and semi-volatile organic compounds - into a waterfront bike trail and office buildings. With this funding, Philadelphia will be able to work with this site and reconnect Kingsessing to the riverfront," Regan said.
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