Open AccessThe Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Pilot Program
Author(s) -
Michael Greenberg,
Justin B. Hollander
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2004.054361
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , disadvantaged , local government , public administration , politics , business , government (linguistics) , public health , state (computer science) , health department , economic growth , environmental health , political science , economics , medicine , sociology , nursing , social science , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , law
We studied the diffusion of the US Environmental Protection Agency's national brownfields pilot innovation to more than 300 local governments between 1993 through 2002 to determine why some local governments received grants very early in the process while other awardees received funding later.