Finding a suitable site for a new battery storage project can be tricky. Building on what’s already there can be one way to smooth out the process. ‘Brownfield’ battery development is on the rise, the ...

Campaigners have urged developers to identify unused or derelict brownfield land where homes could be built, as part of their plans to oppose the use of green belt land for housing in Sheffield.

With all of Northwest Indiana’s heavy industry, it’s no wonder that brownfields abound here. But even a strip mall can become a brownfield. A brownfield could also be an empty field or a house that ...

In this excerpt from “Health Colonialism,” geographer Shiloh Krupar examines the role of urban brownfields in health disparities and medical apartheid. In the early 1990s, big-city mayors and ...