Mississippi Business Journal » brownfields http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:52:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Feds assess sites for renewable energy potential http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/05/feds-assess-sites-for-renewable-energy-potential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feds-assess-sites-for-renewable-energy-potential http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/05/feds-assess-sites-for-renewable-energy-potential/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:19:31 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=48218 Determining the potential of former landfills, brownfields and Superfund sites around the country to host solar panels and other renewable energy projects is the focus of a new assessment federal researchers announced Friday. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado plan to spend the next year to 18 months [...]

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