{"id":206242,"date":"2018-11-15T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206242"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:30:09","slug":"professor-interviewed-about-superfund-site-around-the-gowanus-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2018\/11\/15\/professor-interviewed-about-superfund-site-around-the-gowanus-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor interviewed about Superfund site around the Gowanus Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Designating a property a Superfund site sends a signal to developers, Jessica Miller, assistant professor of earth and environmental studies at ÌÇÐÄvlog, told Bloomberg Environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially in a place like New York City, that means the green light to grab land,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When the EPA was considering naming the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, active redevelopment efforts slowed down, but speculation increased, Aronowsky said.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn\u2019s Gowanus Canal is nearly two miles long. Starting in the mid-1800s, it was a major industrial transportation route and a dumping ground for paper mills, tanneries, and chemical plants.<\/p>\n<p>Since the EPA added the site to its National Priorities List in 2010, a Whole Foods grocery store has moved in, bringing solar and wind powered facilities. New trees have been planted and green infrastructure improvements have drawn attention to the Gowanus Canal, Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>That puts some residents, especially renters and elderly populations, at risk for displacement in the coming years, according to Miller. A New York City Department of City Planning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/planning\/download\/pdf\/plans-studies\/gowanus\/gowanus-framework-full.pdf\">framework<\/a>\u00a0for the Gowanus Canal prioritizes new, denser housing that creates and preserves affordable units.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordable\u201d is relative, Miller and others said, and potentially out of reach for many existing residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working closely with the community and local elected officials to ensure the neighborhood remains mixed-use while becoming more inclusive and sustainable,\u201d Joe Marvilli, a spokesman for the department, told Bloomberg Environment in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on Bloomberg News:\u00a0<em>\u2018Gentrified Out of Existence\u2019 as Gowanus, Toxic Sites Get Cleaner<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jessica Miller provides insight regarding the land around the canal which is included by the EPA on its National Priorities List as of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206279,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206242\/revisions\/206279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}