Byline: Stephanie Waite

Aug. 15--AMBRIDGE -- They landed in Ambridge Sunday: the brownfields expert from Colorado, the environmental risk expert from New York, the mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn.

It's been five years since they've seen this town of Old Economy Village and old industrial sites.

Their initial impression Monday was that not much had changed, but one of the visitors praised the construction of a new high school, and they all said they wanted to spend a day touring the town and talking to locals to get a better impression before passing judgment. Back in 2001, the three visitors and others participated in the Brownfields in Our Neighborhoods conference, ...