He is director of ELI's Center for State, Local, and Regional Environmental Programs and Co-Director of the Brownfields Center at ELI. He has conducted numerous research projects and published extensively on state and federal brownfields programs, U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Energy cleanup and reuse programs, and the use of institutional controls in all federal and state cleanup programs. He can be reached at pendergrass@eli.org. [Editors' Note: This Article appears in the book When Bad Things Happen to Good Property, by Robert A. Simons, Ph.D., published in 2006 by ELI. The book can be ordered by either calling ELI at 800-433-5120 or logging on to the ELI website at http://www.eli.org.]