May 7, 2009


EPA: $10M coming to Michigan to clean up brownfields

By TODD SPANGLER
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF WASHINGTON – With President Obama’s point man for helping struggling auto communities recover on the ground today and Friday in Michigan, the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington is announcing that more than $10 million in grants is available to help clean up sites in the state contaminated by hazardous chemicals or pollutants.

Michigan is expected to be the biggest recipient of these funds nationwide, with a portion of the money coming through the stimulus plan passed by Congress earlier this year.
The grants will help pay for cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned and contaminated properties known as brownfields.
Ed Montgomery, Obama’s director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, said the money can help Michigan redevelop property and create new jobs in struggling manufacturing communities, calling them “one important initial short term step to creating a partnership that will build on Michigan’s assets – its workers, leadership and infrastructure – to revitalize Michigan in the long term.”






They should let DY posters tell them where to spend this money.