New Eminent Domain Act in Illinois
On May 3, 2006, the Illinois General Assembly passed Senate Bill 3086 and created the Eminent Domain Act.

New Great Lakes Sediment Rule
How and where contaminated sediment will be cleaned up in the Great Lakes is the subject of a new rule announced April 25 by the U.S. EPA.

Property Transaction Comfort in Ohio
The NBA’s Ohio Chapter has designed a six-step process to provide property transaction comfort by effectively defining, minimizing and/or transferring environmental liabilities.

Urban Reinvestment in Milwaukee
Rarely, however, do many of us working in the brownfield arena ever get to put these “if you clean it up, they will come” ideas to work in urban areas of high poverty and blight. In Wisconsin, state and local officials are teaming up with a neighborhood group in Milwaukee to do just that.