Mesothelioma and Asbestos

In her keynote speech at the 2009 National Brownfields Conference, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson used Recent Orleans, Louisiana as a shining example of environmental remediation as well as revitalization for the rest of the United States. She said that Recent Orleans provides hope for the rest of the country.

The EPA has a Brownfields Program that offers grants to help fund contamination assessment, cleanup as well as job training in contaminated sites so that they can be reused as commercial, residential or even community properties. Cleaning up brownfields not only helps the environmental; it as well as helps improve community health as well as economic recovery.

Brownfield cleanups create environmental remediation jobs. Once the sites are cleaned up as well as put to take again, many of them create permanent jobs.

Several successful Recent Orleans brownfield projects were highlighted during the conference, including a paint factory that was cleaned up as well as turned into an apartment building that provides both market rate as well as affordable housing. A former can factory became a retail center as well as apartment building. The former Falstaff Brewery building required asbestos abatement, lead abatement as well as air monitoring before it was turned into a combined take intricate.

For the filled story, go to NOLA.com.