Jersey City will take another step toward transforming the contaminatedsites that dot its waterfront when it breaks ground Wednesday on a nearly 800, 000-square-foot warehouse.
As part of the Recovery Act, you cleaned up contaminatedsites across the country, which helped to rid neighborhoods of environmental blight while putting Americans back to work.
Developers cheered two years ago when Congress passed the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, which gave them protection from environmental liability when they redeveloped brownfields--mostly abandoned industrial sites that might be contaminated.