Environmental Law Matters

Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va., Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) have reintroduced S. 347 as The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025. According to an article by Jenny Black with PPM Consultants, the “legislation aims to reauthorize and expand funding for brownfields revitalization, addressing environmental contamination and fostering economic development in communities of all sizes.”   

Key changes to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program under the legislation ...

Our firm has recently represented clients in two projects associated with brownfields that may signal an increased willingness on the part of regulatory authorities to facilitate redevelopment of contaminated properties. As individuals and companies around the nation began to reassess the impacts of sprawl, the ability to redevelop brownfield properties provides an opportunity to make these properties productive to the benefit of the new owner directly and the community generally. One project involved the redevelopment of a portion of an abandoned automobile manufacturing ...