What’s the Cost of Not Fixing a Brownfield? Plenty
You’ve probably heard the term before: brownfield. What is a brownfield, beyond just, well, a brown field? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a brownfield is a blighted property whose redevelopment may be complicated by real or perceived environmental contaminants. In other words, brownfields are community eyesores that need to be cleaned up. And that… Read More »
Tags: Brownfields, Brownfields 2015 Conference, Cheyenne, Eau Claire, Environmental Protection Agency, Redevelopment, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Road to PGA Championship Venue is No Longer at Risk of Falling into Lake Michigan
Drivers (and putters) heading to this week’s PGA Championship golf tournament will have the opportunity to take a new road that – to their benefit – is no longer falling into Lake Michigan. Earlier this year, crews from the Sheboygan County Transportation Department completed work on County Highway LS (Lakeshore Road), which runs along Whistling… Read More »
Tags: 2015 PGA Championship, Highway Reconstruction, Liebman, Sheboygan County, Whistling Straits
Planning a Project? Threatened Northern Long-Eared Bat May Require Special Measures
Engineers and scientists often need to take the environmental impacts of a project into consideration, especially as more species of animals and plants are added to the threatened species list. For the past nine years, for example, white-nose syndrome has been decimating bat populations along the East Coast and in the Midwest. The fast-moving fungal… Read More »
Tags: Environmental Impact, Northern long-eared bats, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, White-nose syndrome
