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Environment International LTD services

Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14000

An environmental management system (EMS) is a powerful tool to help businesses, governments and universities successfully meet today`s financial and environmental challenges. EMSs help businesses chart a clear course to competitive advantage with strategies that improve their financial, environmental and social bottom lines. Governments and universities reap benefits of EMSs through improved control, reduced operating costs and strenghtened environmental performance.

Environmental Compliance and Auditing

EI`s experts have a depth of experience in conducting compliance audits that is exceptional in the consulting industry. With training in environmental science, engineering and law, EI helps clients navigate through the maze of regulations to identify those applicable to their facilities. EI works with clients to identify practical approaches to maintain an outstanding compliance record and achieve best management practices that control costs and avoid problems. EI has provided compliance auditing services for facilities in many different states and has an outstanding knowledge of the regulatory requirements under relevant federal and state laws.

Brownfields Redevelopment

Brownfields are properties once used for industrial, manufacturing or other commerical uses that are lying abandoned or underused due to the suspicion of hazardous substance contamination. In the early 1990s, citizens expressed their concerns that these areas were contributing to urban blight and joblessness, and unknown environmental liabilities were preventing communities, developers and investors from restoring these properties to productive use and revitalizing impacted neighborhoods.

Hazardous Site Management

EI prides itself on helping clients achieve cost-effective response actions under CERCLA and state hazardous waste laws. EI has provided advice on all phases of response actions -- preliminary assessment, remedial investigation and risk assessment, feasibility study, and remedy selection and implementation.

Risk Assessment

Many businesses and government organizations today face increasing conditions of risk presented by sources both internal and external to their operations. Managing risk programmatically with EI`s help puts organizations in a position of being proactive and prepares them for adversities. Risks associated with hazardous materials loom especially large.

Natural Resource Damage Assessment

With the enactment of legislation beginning in the 1970s, Congress brought into being the field of natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). Five federal laws have been passed by Congress to hold certain parties responsible for the costs of restoration of the environment in the aftermath of a variety of incidents--spills of oil, releases of hazardous substances, and even physical injuries to resources found in national park units and marine sanctuaries. Claims are brought by federal, state, and/or tribal `trustees` of natural resources against those considered liable under the statutes, and funds recovered through settlement or trial are used to make the environment and public `whole.` Damages and assessment costs can easily run into the millions. Resolution of natural resource damage claims can be through protracted litigation or, by comparison, cost-effective, efficient `collaborative assessments.`