Michigan allocates $77 million to clean thousands of contaminated sites

LANSINGThere are 27,000 known brownfields, or sites contaminated with pollutants, dotting the state. Many of them are locations where factories once stood.About half are what the state calls “orphan sites,” meaning there’s no responsible party that owns the land and would otherwise have to clean up the pollutants, said Phil Roos, the director of the Departme...