by Sylvia Carignan, BNA Daily Environment Report™

Confusion, inconsistency and a lack of direction from the EPA kept investors away from about $11 million in potential brownfields cleanup funding, according to the agency’s inspector general.

Millions in brownfields grants sit unused in city, county and state accounts, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General reported Aug. 23, meaning millions less for borrowers to invest in site cleanup and land reuse.

“These funds are not being placed into active use as frequently and as fully as they could be and they should be,” Michael Goldstein, managing shareholder of the Goldstein Environmental Law Firm, told Bloomberg BNA.

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