environmental liability management Articles
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Environmental Liability Management for a Large American University
Challenge A large American university recently acquired a two-hundred acre hospital property for the purpose of future developments. One fifth of the property was impacted by chlorinated solvents and petroleum. Antea Group was appointed to assume the liability, return the land to residential use, and abate the migration of contaminants with minimal disruption to the campus or the hospital. ...
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Remediation: A business perspective
The key to managing corporate environmental liabilities is to operate the remediation function as a business, recognizing that, like any business, it has a market, customers, and stakeholders. This article explains DuPont's business strategy for managing these liabilities. WHY IS A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE SO IMPORTANT? Operating like a business is more about being financially disciplined than ...
By AHC Group
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Remediation consultancy, South Wales
Project Remediation Strategies were retained to assist a large chemical facility with the long term management of a groundwater contamination issue. Contaminants had historically entered groundwater following a spill event and despite previous remediation works by others, a residual contaminant plume remained present and was continuing to migrate off-site. Following on from previous ...
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Three Strategic Options for Managing Acquired Environmental Liabilities
Evaluating Through a Finance Lens As companies strive to remain competitive and profitable in today’s uncertain economy, asset transactions continue to play a leading role in their efforts to transform, adapt and re-invent themselves. A well-thought out and well-executed acquisition can bask even the most gloomy of balance sheets in sunshine by bringing rapid revenue growth, added ...
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Integrating EMS and P2 to manage environmental costs and liabilities
The necessarily similar structures of EMSs and P2 programmes make it possible to integrate the elements of a P2 program smoothly into an EMS. When this is done, P2 is raised from being a mere commitment within the EMS to being a major operational component of the EMS. Instead of looking just at the regulatory compliance status and environmental aspects of your company's operations and then at ...
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Landfills case study: Space heating with LFG: Small project-big savings
On a typical January morning in Minnesota, a landfill operator is working on the compactor’s transmission. Despite the four inches of snow on the ground, he opens the garage doors in the maintenance building to let out some of the excess heat. Unlike previous winters, this year the operator can afford to crank up the heat in the building while working on equipment because the heat is being ...
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Achieving exemplary compliance case study
Challenge: A major integrated oil company retained the services of Antea Group to manage environmental liability at a bulk storage and distribution facility that supplies gasoline, diesel fuel and other refined petroleum product to Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. The property presented a series of unique challenges including multiple LNAPL plumes, LNAPL identified within karst bedrock, ...
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Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans
Why Your Railroad Facility Needs One and What to do About It Did you know that that railroad facilities are subject to the Clean Water Act? This includes requirements to have a Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) in place to clarify how you will control pollutants in storm water runoff from your facility. A SWPPP will identify the potential sources of pollution and describe the ...
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Own Your Environmental Data Workflow: A Guide for Environmental Managers
Whether you are monitoring discharges from power plants, remediation performance at contaminated sites or the environmental performance of chemical plants, chances are that you are working with various subcontractors for field sampling, laboratory analysis, data validation, and report generation. Managing environmental liabilities and optimizing environmental performance requires environmental ...
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Hydrogeology Practitioner Spotlight--Wayne Hutchinson
Name: Wayne Hutchinson Office: Milwaukee Practice Area: Environmental Liability Management Area of expertise: Hydrogeology About Me in 140 Characters (or more!): I suppose I was drawn to a career in science, and specifically hydrogeology, because it allows me to use and apply mathematics, chemistry and physics to solve three-dimensional puzzles. And, as it turns out, it was also the perfect ...
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Contaminated land: bank credit risk for small and medium size UK enterprises
With the implementation of the environmental legislation in April 2000 in the UK, the paper examines how provisions relating to contaminated land might affect loan decision-making by financial lending institutions to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The potential for a borrower or lender to incur liability for the cleaning up of contaminated land is now real. An insight into how banks ...
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