• Northeast-Midwest Institute Reports and Papers
• Links to Research, Publications, News by Others

Brownfields redevelopment can be encouraged or thwarted, depending on the legal and regulatory framework. In white papers and presentations, the Institute has sought to highlight some of the ways brownfields redevelopment can be facilitated by regulatory mechanisms.

Northeast and Midwest member states, because of the prevalence of abandoned manufacturing plants and the need to re-position those vacated sites to accommodate productive new uses, generally have a strong interest in brownfields regulatory mechanisms that encourage new investment in brownfields sites.

Northeast-Midwest Institute Reports and Papers

• Overcoming Impediments to Public Agency Acquisition of Brownfield Sites
• Mothballed Sites and Local Government Acquisition: How State Liability Protections, Eminent Domain Reforms, and Cost Recovery Authority can Spur Local Government Action to Acquire and Redevelop Difficult Brownfields Sites (October, 2008)
• An Assessment of the Impacts of Cooper v. Aviall on Brownfields Cleanups (June 2007)
• Supreme Court Decision. United States v. Atlantic Research Corp.
• U.S. Conference of Mayors Amicus Brief
• State and Local Non-Cash Tools and Strategies for Enhancing a Brownfield Project's Bottom Line (October 2006)

Links to Research, Publications, News by Others

Institutional Controls

• All Appropriate Inquiries Practices, Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO)
• Addressing Long-Term Stewardship: Highlights from the Field, U.S. EPA, 2008
• State Status in the Implementation of Institutional Controls, June 2007, Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO)
• EPA RCRA Brownfields Prevention Initiative - Homepage
• National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) proposals to expand liability protections to RCRA petroleum sites