The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields initiative received the highest award given to honor those government programs that have best served the public. “We are highly honored by the Harvard University’s recognition of the Clinton-Gore Administration’s Brownfields initiative as one of the most outstanding efforts by government to serve Americans,” said EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner. “This successful program has provided communities across the nation with financial assistance to clean up contaminated sites, revitalize neighborhoods and create thousands of new jobs. The Brownfields initiative clearly demonstrates that economic prosperity and the protection of public health and the environment go hand-in-hand.” Brownfields are sites containing contaminated materials, usually buried when it was permissible.
From Daily Regulatory Reporter
