Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On April 29, 2022, at the former Five Corners commercial site in Amsterdam, where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently begun a Brownfields contamination assessment, Senator Schumer and Rep. Paul Tonko launched a two-pronged plan to clean up the community eyesore and turn the abandoned lot into a site for new opportunity. First, Schumer explained that he secured a historic $1.5 billion for the EPA’s Brownfields programs in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, which after the EPA’s environmental assessment of Five Corners, Amsterdam can tap to begin remediation of the site. Second, the senator plans to call for even more funding in this year’s appropriations bill for Brownfield cleanup projects, which would supercharge local efforts to transform the blighted commercial site, improve public health and create new development and job opportunities.