Another big affordable housing tower is officially on the way for the Bronx, with developers closing financing this week on a project that aims to blend low-rent apartments, on-site support services and green design along the Castle Hill and Soundview border.

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Governor Ned Lamont announced Wednesday the latest in funding for redevelopment of blighted properties around the state. 

Ten municipalities will receive grants or loans to help cover costs for study, clearing, or remediation of the sites, some of which have caused an eyesore for residents for decades. 

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Schenectady, N.Y (WRGB) —The Capital Region values its historical roots while continuing to evolve to meet the needs of a growing community. Few places illustrate that transformation more dramatically than Mohawk Harbor. Today, the bustling riverfront destination along the Mohawk River is home to restaurants, hotels, housing, offices, entertainment venues, and Rivers Casino & Resort. But for generations of Schenectady residents, the 60-acre site along Erie Boulevard stood as a reminder of the city's industrial past. For more than a century, the property was home to the American Locomotive Company, or Alco, which manufactured railroad equipment and military vehicles before closing in 1969.

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MERIDEN, CT — The redevelopment of a former historic piano factory into a mixed-income housing development was recently celebrated with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony in Meriden.

Trinity Financial, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, the Connecticut Department of Housing, other state and local officials, financing partners, community leaders, and residents celebrated last Tuesday the completion of Tremont Flats, a $56-million adaptive reuse redevelopment that transformed the historic Aeolian Company complex into 82 mixed-income apartment homes in Meriden's North End.

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The federal government and Maryland filed lawsuits against DC Water three months after a massive pipeline rupture released billions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River.

The rupture of the sewage pipeline on Jan. 19 sent more than 240 million gallons of sewage into the Potomac River. While a temporary bypass stopped further contamination into the river, more than 2 billion gallons of wastewater were still diverted through the C&O Canal until repairs were completed.

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Ulster County residents who get their drinking water from private wells can now apply for free PFAS testing and, if contamination meets state thresholds, rebates to help pay for treatment or a public-water hookup, through New York State’s new Private Well PFAS Testing and Mitigation Rebate Pilot Program. Applications are open in Ulster County, one of six counties included in the pilot.

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The introduction and passage of legislation addressing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has been a priority for states across the country for the last several years (read all of our past coverage of PFAS).

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Pittsburgh has reinvented itself from a steel powerhouse to a hub for health care and education. But the city’s industrial past left a hidden legacy: toxic compounds like benzene and toluene in the soil. While most life can’t survive such a contamination, some microbes adapted to use the pollutants as food. 

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The Department adopted the Indoor Air Notification Area (IANA) in February 2026, establishing a new institutional control called an “Indoor Air Notification Area,” which addresses the indoor air/vapor intrusion exposure pathway. Regulatory citations applicable to Indoor Air Notification Areas are in the Administrative Requirements for Remediation of Contaminated Sites  (ARRCS) at N.J.A.C. 7:26C-7.5 and the Technical Requirements for Site Remediation  at N.J.A.C. 7:26E-5.7.

ARRCS at N.J.A.C. 7:26C-7.5 explains how an IANA serves as notification to the public, that air inside a building on a site is above the applicable remediation standards, and that it requires mitigation and monitoring to ensure that any occupants of the building are protected. Similar to a Classification Exception Area (CEA), the IANA is part of the Remedial Action Permit (RAP) and a Geographic Information System (GIS) layer for the IANA will be mapped on the Department’s website. An IANA requires data evaluations, mapping, and notification to ensure that people in a building are aware that there is a potential exposure risk if an engineering control is not being operated or maintained. When the Person Responsible for Conducting the Remediation (PRCR) or permittee (if in an approved RAP) proposes or revises an IANA, the PRCR or permittee must notify municipal officials, health departments, county planning boards, and nearby real property owners, tenants, and occupants.

N.J.A.C. 7:26E-5.7 requires the PRCR to include the indoor air notification area, which reflects current site conditions for the area of the indoor air contaminated by a discharge at the site, in the remedial action report submission. Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:26C-7.5, the Department may revise or reestablish an IANA at any time to more accurately reflect indoor air conditions using any relevant data, as the duration of the IANA is indeterminate.

Contact the Bureau of Remedial Action Permitting (BRAP) at (609) 633-6801 with any indoor air RAP questions.

Contact the BEMSA ICU case manager (or the BCM case manager for traditional oversight and certain direct oversight cases) with IANA questions.

https://dep.nj.gov/srp/guidance/iana/

Congressional lawmakers from Maryland and Virginia are pushing for a “rigorous” environmental remediation plan, public briefings and continued bacteria monitoring in the wake of last month’s spill of millions of gallons of sewage into the Potomac River.

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