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Environmental Consulting

Environmental Risk Limited offers a wide range of environmental consulting services, including those listed below. Click on an item to read more about it:


Air Quality

ERL staff are recognized as industry experts in air quality consulting, permitting and engineering services and have the extensive experience necessary to plan effective compliance and permitting strategies, prepare complete permit applications, and conduct successful negotiations with the regulating agencies. With a superior command of the regulations, ERL staff maintain a constant watch on the array of both dramatic and subtle changes proposed and implemented by state and federal agencies. In support of a wide range of manufacturing facilities, large merchant power plant developments, small cogeneration facilities, municipal facilities, and telecommunications activities, ERL provides the following services:

Air Quality Impact Assessment

  • Dispersion modeling studies
  • Complex terrain modeling
  • Cooling tower impact analysis
  • Accidental release impact modeling
  • GEP stack evaluations
  • Traffic related air quality impact analyses

General Permit Applications
Preparation of applications per state dictated requirements for special general permits such as those for emergency generator equipment, small boilers, minor stationary sources

Accidental Chemical Release Prevention
In support of programs such as the EPA's Risk Management Program (112(r) of the CAAA), OSHA's Process Safety Management Program, and New Jersey's Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act, we provide a range of services including Offsite Consequence Analysis, Process Hazard Analysis, Plan preparation, Incident Investigation procedures, Emergency Response Plans, and other required program elements, and performance of program audits.

Compliance Assistance

  • Emissions inventories
  • Clean Air Act compliance audits
  • Regulatory compliance plans
  • Agency-mandated compliance efforts
  • Negotiation assistance during Consent Order proceedings, Notice of Violation, other Administrative orders

Air Pollution Control Systems

  • Technical performance evaluations
  • Conceptual design/feasibility evaluations
  • Control system bid specifications and evaluations

Expert Testimony

Please see this separate item detailing our capabilities regarding expert testimony and opinion.

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Environmental Claims Review

Just as developing Environmental Insurance policies requires trained underwriters, reviewing remediation claims against those policies requires expert remediation managers. ERL has a staff of seasoned and experienced engineers, scientists, and geologists who have made a career of investigating contaminated properties and devising clean-up solutions. We have experience with what works and are familiar with what methods have been abandoned in favor of new approaches.

We strongly feel that the best qualified reviewers of environmental claims are those who are designing remediation strategies on a daily basis. More than knowing how much study is needed to understand a situation or what remedial technologies to consider, we feel it is important that our staff are answerable to ERL's clients on budget management issues. This daily experience in spending some else's money helps ERL staff identify cost-saving strategies and pinpoint inflated claim items to the advantage of the insurance company.

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Environmental Management Systems Audits

A successfully executed Environmental Management System ensures that the environmental compliance management team serving your facility includes the correct people, uses the proper information, and makes the best decisions. Typically, an outside audit is performed to establish the current status of compliance at your facility, then suggestions are made to rectify deficiencies, on a regulatory level and on an organizational level. We can also assist with the implementation - from providing training, to preparing needed plans and submittals, to conducting periodic status-check audits. Once initiated, an EMS can be a very efficient way to establish, ensure and maintain environmental compliance.

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Environmental Meteorology

ERL has two expert environmental meteorologists with over 40 years of combined experience. They are both familiar with and have experience in the range of approved computer models applicable to air quality modeling. On-site computer models are maintained to comply with requirements of project-specific air quality impact analyses. Primary uses of this unique consulting component include:

Weather Insurance Support: ERL staff have assisted events which held weather insurance policies in case of "rain out" conditions. The ERL meteorologist attends the event, setting up appropriate measuring instrumentation in advance, and as a Certified Consulting Meteorologist, can certify the weather observation in order to support an insurance claim.

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Environmental Partners ProgramTM

ERL has developed a unique and innovative way to assist companies with maintaining regulatory compliance — we call it the Environmental Partners™ Program. Whether a facility needs part-time, interim, or supplementary assistance, this program matches an ERL staff member with a particular facility on a pre-determined schedule and fulfills many facilities' environmental compliance needs. We can support the staff you have or fill the void of staff you don't have to help you meet your environmental compliance and reporting obligations. This program is tailored to a company's particular situation and compliance requirements; the flexibility of the program and the accessibility of the ERL staff assigned to a facility are part of its main benefits to our clients who are using the program.

For partnering purposes, ERL staff provide many areas of expertise in the following areas: air quality, water quality, wastewater, hazardous waste and site remediation. We also provide the following services:

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Expert Testimony, Litigation, and Public Hearing Support

Because of the depth of experience and level of expertise of ERL's senior staff, we have been able to provide clients with expert testimony and expert opinion in a variety of critical situations when significant decisions are pending. The following examples highlight a few representative cases where both the level of scientific and/or engineering knowledge as well as the ability to communicate that information has been vital to our client.

Public hearing testimony was provided by ERL senior staff during state regulatory hearings regarding the air emissions impacts from a proposed 500 MW combined cycle merchant power plant.

Public hearing testimony in support of a waste-to-energy facility opposed contentiously by local groups. After long and arduous hearings, the facility finally received approval after the hearings convincingly presented minimal environmental affects of the facility. Support was provided by senior staff who are chemical engineers and certified consulting meteorologists.

Expert opinion was essential in the case of a group of insurance companies versus a major petroleum company. Extensive historic research regarding underground storage tank practices as well as review of a large amount of existing data, review of previous depositions, and preparation for future deposition was performed by a senior chemical engineer who is a registered P.E.

Depositions have been provided by ERL staff members relating to property investigation and cleanup strategies during litigation between business entities, as well as insurance claims review cases.

Superfund litigation concerning a landfill. A senior chemical engineer was retained by a major law firm to act as an expert technical witness in a Superfund litigation suit. ERL provided an analysis of groundwater and soil contamination reported at the site and a review of waste materials disposed of at the landfill. ERL studied the materials used by the law firm's client and determined that these materials could not have resulted in the types or levels of contamination observed at the landfill.

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Industrial Hygiene - Health & Safety Services

The primary objective of ERL's Health & Safety Services group is to assist employers in the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and development of strategies to minimize or eliminate occupational hazards present at a facility. Utilizing a depth of experience, training and quantitative measurement of the chemical, physical, ergonomic or biological stressors present in the workplace, our staff is well versed in the application of industrial hygiene safety and health principals. Compliance with regulatory standards is achieved by providing cooperative support to industry in the delivery of comprehensive safety and health services. Regulatory compliance is a natural result of a larger objective - the development of a behavior based safety culture within an organization. Training and education services are offered by our U.S. Department of Labor Authorized Outreach Educator. The following areas are among those services provided by ERL staff in the Industrial Hygiene/ Health and Safety area:

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