The target this time is brownfields, a term coined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to define “abandoned, idled, or under-utilized industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.” The term brownfield was first used to distinguish developed land from unused suburban and rural land, referred to as “greenfield” sites.
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Lawbreaking Freeway Expansionists and their Dirty Money
County Executive Scott Walker illegally accepted campaign donations totaling more than $46,000 without identifying the occupation of the source as required by law. Some of our friends from HNTB — the Halliburton of Wisconsin road building — popped up on the list of mystery donors. Among them were Ken Graham ($2,000 in donations) and Harvey Hammond ($1,000 in donations). On the other side of the political donation ledger, road-building firms donated more than $70,000 to a Washington, D.C. group that then funneled it back to the state — allegedly illegally — to help Democratic candidates. The Washington money-laundering figures prominently in one of the felony counts pending against Chuck Chvala.
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