ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE and management systems
Building compliance into processes avoids costly surprises and keeps
you focused on your business
A commitment to proactive environmental management, including pollution prevention, facilitates compliance with applicable regulations, standards and commitments and enables you to reap the benefits of bringing environmental costs, risks, liabilities, responsibilities and opportunities under better control.
Earth Tech’s compliance specialists include engineers, earth and water quality scientists, meteorologists, regulatory experts and management consultants. Our professionals have assisted a wide range of clients in preparing plans and establishing procedures to improve their long-term compliance postures and have served as advocates before regulators to avoid or resolve consent decrees and notices of violation.
Working in partnership with public sector clients and some of the world’s leading companies, we have helped them develop strategies for sustained compliance with local, regional and national environmental regulations around the world.
Earth Tech’s services in this area include:
- Strategic environmental management
- Development planning
- Regulatory compliance
- Siting and permitting
- Environmental audits
- Pollution prevention/waste reduction
- Hazardous materials management
- Air quality engineering and management
- Pollution control planning and engineering
- Industrial hygiene and safety engineering
- Air, water and noise modeling
- ISO 9001 and 14000 training and certification support
Environmental Management
Forward thinking organizations are discovering that sustainable business practices are increasingly linked to environmental stewardship and “green” business practices. With Earth Tech’s help, the process begins with a robust system for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) and quality management. Integrating EHS and quality management into a single, company-wide business management system can lead to and greater operating efficiencies and cost savings.
Our environmental professionals combine their talents to provide you with some advanced engineering and technology solutions.
Earth Tech’s environmental management services include:
- Strategic environmental management services
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Information technology
- Indoor environmental quality (temperature, ventilation, humidity, lighting, microorganisms, particulates, noise, VOCS, gases
- Environmental research and pilot plant studies
Pollution Prevention
Earth Tech has provided pollution prevention and waste minimization services to both industrial and government clients for more than 20 years – since the early recognition that preventing generation of hazardous and toxic materials was a more prudent and less costly alternative to end-of-process cleanup. Over the years, we have helped a wide range of clients meet the challenges associated with pollution prevention. For example, we are leaders in assisting national governments reduce hazardous waste generation at military industrial plants, and, in the private sector, we have helped large manufacturing companies reduce wastewater discharge and process waste generation. Initiatives such as these and numerous others have significantly reduced our clients compliance and cleanup costs.
Our services in this area include:
- Pollution prevention opportunity assessments
- Recommendations and implementation of process modifications, materials substitution or recycling to reduce the generation of hazardous wastes
