CalEPA VI Activities Prompt Winefield & Associates to Kill Two Brownfields Projects

Brownfields investments are risky. The new, scientifically suspect vapor intrusion criteria floating around CalEPA make these investments even riskier. Winefield & Associates must deliver acceptable returns to its investors, notwithstanding our goal to bring blighted sites to productive use. Unfortunately, the use of the 0.03 Attenuation Factor by Southern California regulators has forced W&A to kill two brownfield redevelopment projects. One of the projects would have promoted jobs in South LA, while the other project would have initiated redevelopment in Gardena. As CalEPA continues to use bad science to roll out unnecessary remediation goals, they seem oblivious to real-world implications of their actions. For example, the two sites just referenced will now continue to be blighted and underutilized indefinitely. Thanks, CalEPA!