Dive summary:

• The EPA has awarded approximately $4 million across 20 different communities to help clean up abandoned and possibly contaminated waste sites.
• Each community will receive $200,000 for clean up and planning activities to restore the land for future development.
• The brownfield cleanup program began in 2010; this is now the second round of grants made to restore these areas.

From the article:

"EPA continues to respond to Brownfields challenges in communities of every size by encouraging strong public-private partnerships and promoting innovative and creative ways to assess, clean up and redevelop Brownfields sites," said Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, in a statement. "The area-wide planning approach recognizes that revitalization of the area surrounding the Brownfields sites is critical to the successful reuse of the property as cleanup and redevelopment of an individual site." ...