Author:  Firm Partner, Tim Swickard, the former Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Cal EPA/Department of Toxic Substances Control during Governor Schwarzenegger’s first term

Published in: The International Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination, Volume 17, Issue 2  March 2008, pages 121 - 136

In this peer-reviewed article, Tim Swickard examines the two substantial sources of urban environmental degradation—one from past industrial contamination activities, and one from the diversion of urban growth to outlying “greenfields,” creating a second front of degradation commonly known as urban or suburban “sprawl.” 

Tim demonstrates how the resolution of both historical contamination and non-substainable land use can be achieved by private sector redevelopment of interior urban brownfields, and offers five governmental policies that would greatly facilitate and enhance the resolution of these two significant environmental problems.