New Rule Accelerates Brownfields Development.

The article focuses on the clear standards for environmental upliftment and encouragement of more urban development announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Stephen Johnson, Administrator of the EPA, made the announcement. According to Johnson, U.S. President George W. Bush and the EPA are committed to putting both property and people back to work through its successful brownfields program. Johnson also said that transformation of problem properties into community assets is in progress by making risk-management less of a guessing game and more of a science.