EPA Touts a New Real Estate Market: Superfund Sites

Kristi Unzicker initially hesitated when her colleagues suggested building a crude oil terminal on a contaminated Texas lot described as a “Superfund site on steroids.”

But the Environmental Protection Agency now hopes more developers like Unzicker, manager of environmental compliance at energy infrastructure provider Genesis Energy LP, choose contaminated properties deemed ready for redevelopment. To that end, the agency is encouraging potentially responsible parties to integrate redevelopment opportunities into the remediation process for Superfund sites.

The top level focus from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has made cleaning up Superfund sites an agency priority, and new ...