This updated edition of an ABA bestseller provides a step-by-step, solution-oriented look at the environmental and economic challenges of redeveloping contaminated property. After beginning with a thorough explanation that puts brownfields redevelopment into a current context, the book first details the most important legal, business, financial, and political issues associated with redeveloping contaminated real estate, including insights and strategic advice from experts in various disciplines—a template for getting the brownfields deal done. The third part of the book discusses the basic science for dealing with contaminated property appropriately and effectively. Finally, the fourth section offers detailed and current information on the important elements of each state’s voluntary cleanup program.

Buildings and the built environment use vast amounts of energy and other resources in construction, operation, and demolition. In 2009, the residential and commercial building sector was responsible for more than 50 percent of total annual U.S. energy consumption and 74 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption. Beyond that, buildings are responsible for significant amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants, while the materials in them can "offgas" and contribute to indoor air pollution. Green buildings use land and energy efficiently, conserve water, improve indoor and outdoor air quality, and increase the use of recycled materials. They can also lead to reduced operating costs, offering a better return on investment and overall building value.

Implementing Institutional Controls at Brownfields and Other Contaminated Sites, the first book on this important and evolving topic, provides a thorough grounding in the history and current use of institutional controls. Emphasizing federal, state and public perspectives, this compendium of articles written by over 43 experts in the field offers real estate and environmental practitioners a state-of-the-art review of a subject that is integral to the success and growth of brownfields redevelopment projects.

This comprehensive guide examines the issues, problems and pitfalls involved in the intersection of real estate, business, and environmental law. A unique and practical resource, Environmental Aspects of Real Estate and Commercial Transactions, Third Edition, covers the entire range of environmental issues that arise when real estate is developed, operated, sold, or financed.

Controversial yet powerful, litigated but most often settled, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) has a complicated history. CERCLA gave the Environmental Protection Agency vast authority to clean up sites, a dedicated source of funds to undertake clean-ups (Superfund), and a liability scheme of unprecedented scope. The 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) remains the only comprehensive set of amendments to CERCLA.

Following SARA, three important amendments resulting from narrowly targeted legislation have been enacted to make further reforms to the statute. Amending CERCLA focuses on the amendments that narrowed the CERCLA liability scheme to address specific policy objectives...(more)

This is a basic and brief overview of some of the more commonly encountered provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Topics covered include: An overview of the statute; Identification of hazardous waste; Regulation of generators and transporters; Selected treatment, storage, and disposal; Standards for specific hazardous waste TSDF units; TSDF permitting and corrective action; Underground storage tanks; and Solid waste.

This updated edition of The RCRA Practice Manual is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to an extraordinarily complex area of environmental law. This practice-oriented book focuses on the "cradle-to-grave" program for managing hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The RCRA program regulates the handling of these wastes by generators, transporters and treatment, storage and disposal facilities, and regulates a large segment of industry involved in manufacturing.