Environmental Compliance, Management Systems, and Sustainability
Our dedicated, interdisciplinary team of environmental engineers and scientists provides planning, investigation, permitting, design and management services to a wide range of clients throughout the country, taking a client-first approach to every situation, focusing not just on what we can offer, but on what you really need. Nothing more, nothing less.
Services
- Environmental management support — ISO and internal compliance audits, custom on-site environmental training, compliance tools, procedure development, and continual improvement/process optimization
- Compliance reporting — air pollution emission inventories (including Title V, NSPS, MACT), hazardous material inventories (Tier II), toxics release inventories (TRI or Form R, Form S), and hazardous waste reporting
- Pollution prevention plans — risk management; spill prevention, control, and countermeasure (SPCC); slug control plans; stormwater pollution prevention (SWPPP); and resource conservation (energy, water, waste)
- Permitting — all media (air, water/wastewater, solid waste, hazardous materials)
- Due diligence — Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) and technical review of feasibility studies
- Sustainability — supporting corporate sustainability initiatives and ESG goals by assessing environmental impact of new projects, calculation of greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental data reporting support
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Environmental Planning
By identifying a project’s potential environmental factors during the planning phase, we can prevent future barriers to success. Many situations require environmental permitting; but in others, proper planning alone can mitigate or eliminate environmental impacts. While many firms offer standard planning documents, our custom plans incorporate your existing systems, procedures and processes, ultimately saving time, complexity, and your money. If you are unsure about how well your facility is complying with existing regulations, SME can conduct a comprehensive environmental compliance audit to identify all applicable regulations and associated reporting and documentation requirements.
Environmental Permitting
We’ve helped clients negotiate and obtain dozens of federal, state, and local permits throughout the U.S. for a broad range of environmental issues. These include permits for stormwater and wastewater discharge, solid and hazardous waste management and disposal, hazardous materials use, toxics release, and air pollutant emissions. We have honed a straightforward, understandable style to presenting technical information to regulators and the public to enhance understanding of project issues using digital presentations, graphics, and physical models.
Post-permit Support
Once your permit is secured, our team stands ready to develop the procedures necessary to comply with ensuing responsibilities, from air emissions inventory reporting and toxics use reports to custom on-site regulatory training.
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Support
EMSs are important tools for maintaining environmental compliance in everyday operations. Our flexible EMS support services range from occasional technical support to serving as the corporate environmental manager for multi-facility manufacturing firms.
Custom Compliance Tools
Day-to-day management of your facility's environmental permits' and management system requirements requires site-specific tools. SME will develop custom environmental calendars to track your upcoming due dates that can easily be loaded into Microsoft Outlook so that your tasks are all in one location, eliminating the need for other software or web-based logins.
Has there been turnover in the environmental manager role at your facility? SME can assist with the transition through customized training and on-call support to ensure that compliance obligations are not missed.
Concerned about a potential gap in your environmental program? SME can conduct a comprehensive multi-media environmental compliance assessment to establish a baseline, and provide specific action items to address non-compliance issues, and opportunities to reduce the risk of future non-compliance from lessons learned across multiple industries.
Sustainability and ESG Support
SME can support your company's current sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals by assisting with data collection and data quality review for reporting programs, reviewing the environmental impact of new projects, and preparation of environmental policies and procedures.
If your facility does not currently have any sustainability goals, SME will work with management to identify key environmental impacts and priorities, calculate baselines, and set achievable goals that will have a meaningful impact on the environment.
SME's database administrators can also assist with development of custom tools for tracking data and calculating greenhouse gas emissions associated with day-to-day operations or specific projects.
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