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2025: Transformation of Former Smelter in East Helena, Montana, Wins Prestigious Phoenix Award for Brownfields Redevelopment
2024: Cleanup of Contaminated Soil in OU2 Has Begun at Navassa Kerr-McGee Superfund Site
2023: Seapoint Industrial Terminal Complex Wins Phoenix Award for Landmark Environmental Remediation Project
2019: Montana Environmental Trust Group’s Prickly Pear Creek Realignment Project Wins International Engineering Award
2019: Montana Environmental Trust Group Receives EPA’s Excellence in Site Reuse Award for Transformation of the East Helena Superfund Site
2019: Montana Environmental Trust Group’s Creek Realignment Project Wins National Engineering Excellence Award
2019: Rare Swap of State-Owned and Private Lands Will Allow Cleanup of Superfund Site in Jacksonville and Expansion of a Florida State Park
2019: Land Sales Produce Cleanup Funds and Make Way For New Public High School, Mixed-Use Development and Residential Subdivision
2019: EPA celebrates reuse success with groundbreaking of East Helena High School
2019: Montana Environmental Trust Group’s Creek Relocation Project Wins 2019 Engineering Excellence Award
2017: EPA, Greenfield Multistate Trust, MDEQ, City of Columbus, Mississippi, and Community Group Celebrate Completion of 7th Avenue Ditch Remediation and Restoration
2009: Greenfield Appointed Trustee of Montana Environmental Custodial Trust
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CHICAGO, IL (August 20, 2025) – The transformation of a former lead smelter and surrounding land in East Helena, Montana, has earned the prestigious Phoenix Award for excellence in brownfields redevelopment. The cleanup and revitalization of the former ASARCO smelter site received the 2025 Phoenix Award for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 8 on August 7 at the National Brownfields Conference hosted by EPA and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) in Chicago.
Greenfield has earned three Phoenix Awards for excellence in brownfields redevelopment—the highest such honor in the practice of brownfields redevelopment.
In 2000, we received recognition for our accomplishments at the Industri-plex Site in Woburn, Massachusetts. See the Phoenix Award on display at the Anderson Regional Transportation Center in Woburn.
In 2005, we were recognized for our work at the Mountain Pine Pressure Treating Site in Plainview, Arkansas.
In 2025, we earned a Phoenix Award for our work on the transformation of the former ASARCO smelter site in East Helena, Montana, and most of the 2,000 surrounding acres. See our press release.
East Helena, MT (September 2019) – Montana Environmental Trust Group, LLC (METG), as trustee of the Montana Environmental Custodial Trust, and its contractor Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. received a 2019 Merit Award from the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) for the Prickly Pear Creek realignment project in East Helena, Montana.
East Helena, Mont. (August 22, 2019) -- At a ceremony today at Prickly Pear Elementary School in East Helena, Mont., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Administrator Gregory Sopkin presented representatives from the Montana Environmental Trust Group (METG) with EPA’s Excellence in Site Reuse Award for successful efforts to advance the cleanup and revitalization of the East Helena Superfund site. EPA also recognized the host of federal, state and local partners who have contributed to transformation of the site, which was hailed as a national example of the environmental, economic and community benefits that are possible at Superfund sites.
Washington, DC (May 13, 2019) – Montana Environmental Trust Group, LLC, as trustee of the Montana Environmental Custodial Trust, and its contractor Pioneer Technical Services received a 2019 national Grand Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) for the Prickly Pear Creek realignment in East Helena, Montana.
Montana Environmental Trust Group’s (METG) Prickly Pear Creek relocation project won a national Grand Award in Engineering Excellence in the environmental category from ACEC. METG teamed with Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. to realign more than a mile of Prickly Pear Creek in East Helena in order to reduce groundwater contamination and the potential migration of contaminants.
Montana Environmental Trust Group LLC, Trustee of the Montana Environmental Custodial Trust, and its contractor Pioneer Technical Services received a 2019 American Council of Engineering Companies of Montana Engineering Excellence Award for the Prickly Pear Creek realignment in East Helena.
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