Case Study of How NOT to Run a Voluntary Cleanup Program

The Author

Kenneth S. Kamlet is Director of Legal Affairs with Newman Development Group, LLC—a prominent shopping center developer—in Vestal, NY, and is a member of the D.C., Maryland, and New York Bars.  Mr. Kamlet chairs the Brownfields Subcommittee of Broome County’s Environmental Management Council.  He served as a member of Maryland Governor Glendening’s State Voluntary Cleanup Program (Brownfields) Task Force and of the Baltimore Brownfields Industrial Redevelopment Council.  He is the author of a Guide to Redeveloping Underutilized Industrial and Commercial Properties Under Maryland’s “Brownfields” Law, 1997.  In bygone days (1973-1985), he tilted at windmills (and sometimes hit them) as a lawyer and Pollution & Toxics program director for the National Wildlife Federation in Washington, D.C.  The views expressed are strictly his own.