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Two Environmental Topics: Brownfields and Global Warming

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Tags: climate change, brownfields, greenhouse gases, David Benzing, Oberlin

Welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk with some scholars about global warming. But first: brownfields.

Brownfields are defined as: Abandoned, idled or under-used real property where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of environmental contamination.

We’re going to talk about a conference on brownfields that will be taking place in a few weeks here in the bay area. We are joined by Bruce Nocita who is with...