Services Provided
Environmental Management Solutions provides a broad range of services to assist our clients in the development, implementation and management of their environmental programs.
Compliance Assistance
Ever changing environmental statutes and regulations sometimes makes compliance difficult. Failure to keep up-to-date can be costly and can risk the daily operations of your business. Environmental Management Solutions can assist you in the understanding and the application of these requirements - All with the aim of reducing and managing your environmental risks and liabilities as our primary goal.
Enforcement Resolution
Local, state or federal enforcement actions resolved by non-confrontational methods. Experienced as a regulator and a private sector environmental manager, Environmental Management Solutions brings that “both sides of the table” understanding and knowledge to bear against your enforcement action.
Regulatory Relations
Positive regulatory relations are critical to an effective environmental management program. A major benefit of positive regulatory relation is the enhancement of the company’s environmental image. Understanding the needs of the regulator, Environmental Management Solutions will assist you in “making the system work for you and not against you”.
Environmental Assessments
Not sure what direction to take in your environmental program? An environmental assessment of your operation will prove useful in the decision making process.
Environmental Audits
Does company policy, insurance coverage or customer contracts require environmental audits? Environmental Management Solutions can provide the needed audit, complete with suggested corrective actions if needed.
Preventive Programs
Need to strengthen your environmental program? Environmental Management Solutions can develop proactive, prevention programs to maintain compliance. Effective preventive programs can assist in the elimination or substitution of environmentally sensitive processes, and reduction in emissions and discharges all reducing costs and limiting risk and liability.
Permitting
Permit Application
Just don't have the time to spare to complete a permit application? Not sure what the regulatory agency is requesting? Don't have the personnel to accomplish the task of completing a permit application? Environmental Management Solutions can solve the problem by completing the permit application process for you.
Permit Negotiations
Completing the permit application is only part of the process. Effective negotiations ensuring maximum flexibility in permit conditions, schedules and other critical requirements are a necessity. Equally important is achieving the issuance of the permit in the shortest amount of time. Environmental Management Solutions can assist you in those negotiations or conduct them on your behalf.
Advocacy
There are times when you need someone in your corner to speak to various interested parties that have questions regarding your permit application and your operations. Environmental Management Solutions can be your advocate, informing community organizations, government officials and others about your permit application or operations
Environmental Awareness
Environmental Awareness in today's world is present in numerous places. News accounts, school programs, political speeches, and advertising are just a few of them. This heightened environmental awareness is driving companies and their customers and suppliers, governments, agricultural operations and individuals to integrate environmental management into their daily activities. Be it Environmental Stewardship, Environmental Sustainability, Green Community Programs or Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Management Solutions can assist your operation in developing policies and programs to address the needs of environmental awareness. We do not own our environment, we are the caretakers we can only effectively manage it and in some cases attempt to correct past wrongs.
Records Management
Appropriate records and data management is essential to a top notch environmental management program. Today's environmental management programs require more recording keeping than ever before. Managing these records is labor intensive, time consuming and expensive. Be it compliance mandated, company policy, insurance or other requirements, Environmental Management Solutions can provide records systems or provide other record management services.
Plan Development
Today's environmental regulatory schemes require many plans. Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC), Risk Management and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Programs (SP3) are just a few. Development of these plans and the associate training required are time consuming. Environmental Management Solutions can assist you in the development, training and implementation of your mandated plans.