Ten Insider Tips for Reducing Environmental Risk in Commercial Real Estate Transactions
When buying or selling commercial and industrial real estate, stakeholders often conduct a wide range of inspections and inquiries as part of their due diligence. Legal, financial, zoning, permitting, and environmental risk are all typically considered. This article will offer tips for buyers and sellers when conducting environmental due diligence. Why Conduct Environmental Due Diligence… Read More
Environmental Tracers: An Underutilized Tool in Environmental Consulting?
I consider myself lucky to have come to environmental consulting through a couple of academic research detours; first at Columbia University in NYC then Southern Methodist University in Dallas. During my time at Columbia I worked with the Environmental Tracer Group within the Geochemistry department a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). This was a great… Read More
What Might Site-Specific Soil Standards for PFOA Look Like?
The State of New Jersey recently adopted what is currently the lowest drinking water quality criteria (maximum contaminant level or MCL) in the country for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) at 0.014 µg/l or 14 parts per trillion (ppt). This MCL is a health-based value developed by the New Jersey Drinking Water Quality Institute and is… Read More
Plastic Free July Challenge:
Reduce. Reuse. Rehydrate.
Happy Plastic Free July! Will you take the challenge? This month, we’re reminded of the importance of taking care of our world by reducing our use of disposable plastics. Did you know that over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century? According to EcoWatch, this… Read More
Help It or Hurt It: How are Environmental Matters Going to Affect Your Growth or Exit Strategy?
How can foresight and management of environmental matters be leveraged for better outcomes in business mergers, acquisitions and facility divestitures? Gain useful insight in the slideshow below from our presentation at the Eastern Energy Expo: Help It or Hurt It: How are Environmental Matters Going to Affect Your Growth or Exit Strategy? from John Kollmeier… Read More
Tales from Academia: How Did I Get Here?
Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought to yourself, “How did I get here?” That was the exact question I asked myself the first morning I began my career at BSTI. Up until that point, I had spent the last four years at West Chester University (WCU) studying geology and having the time… Read More
Where Does Your Food Come From?
By and large, most people in the US are quite fortunate to have access to a wide variety of foods from all over the world no matter what the season. Although this is a cultural norm, have you ever stopped to think about where your food is coming from and how your choices impact the… Read More
Groundwater and Your Business: Learn Why You Should Be Celebrating Protect Your Groundwater Day
Co-written by: September 6, 2016, just happens to be “Protect Your Groundwater Day!” Created by the National Groundwater Association (NGWA), Protect Your Groundwater Day is a day for everyone to celebrate the importance of groundwater and the impact it has on our everyday lives. So just what is groundwater and why is it important… Read More
Who, What, When, Where & Why: Environmental Forensics
Questions regarding environmental forensics will come up at some level in almost every environmental project. This can range from drawing conclusions about a release from a UST system to sophisticated analysis of large environmental datasets collected specifically to identify contributions from multiple sources. The purpose of forensic interpretation is to tell a story. The… Read More
The Importance of Reusable Water Bottles
How are you hydrating this summer? It’s hot out. Really hot. And it’s getting hotter with July just around the corner. As a fair-skinned and freckled person, I know some of the major dangers of this hot weather. My daily checklist looks something like this: Sunglasses 50+ Sunscreen Glamorous, yet practical summer hat … Read More
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