Permitting, Compliance, and Enforcement
ERG is a national leader in permitting, compliance, and enforcement support to protect human health and the environment. With expertise spanning all environmental media and every major environmental statute, we have conducted detailed compliance analyses and inspections at thousands of facilities throughout the United States, covering every major U.S. industrial and municipal sector, with a particular emphasis on environmental justice communities. We also provide federal and state agencies with a full range of permitting and litigation services, including support for complex cases involving potentially contentious settlement and litigation activities. In addition to these services, ERG develops compliance assistance tools targeted to the regulated community and regulators, as well as data integration and analysis tools to help clients identify sectors and facilities that pose the greatest threats to human health and the environment.
Permitting
- Individual and general permit development
- Special study reviews
- Watershed-based permitting/trading
- Public comment/public hearing support
- Program assessments
- Guidance/tool development
- Outreach/training
Compliance Assistance
- Data analysis and targeting tool development
- Training programs for the regulated community and regulatory agencies
- Compliance assistance materials development
- Program evaluation
- Onsite compliance assistance audits
Regulatory Enforcement
- Development and analysis of information requests
- Regulatory analysis
- Inspections and investigations
- Engineering and scientific evaluation of industrial and municipal processes and releases, pollution prevention options, and pollution control technologies
- Laboratory analysis to characterize releases and control effectiveness
- Analysis of economic benefits of noncompliance and ability to implement controls
- Assessments of human health and environmental impacts of noncompliance
Litigation Support
- Expert witness support
- Injunctive relief/remedial measures development and assessment
- Technical support during settlement negotiations
- Drafting initial, rebuttal, and supplemental expert reports, affidavits, and exhibits
- Field activities, including inspections and sampling
- Process control and infrastructure design and analysis
- Cost estimating for pollution prevention and control technologies
- Hydraulic modeling
- Environmental monitoring program development and analysis
- Water and air quality impact assessments
- Ambient water and air quality monitoring programs
- Aquatic and terrestrial monitoring
Environmental Justice Analysis
- Civil Rights Act and disparate impact analyses
- Community monitoring
- Human health and environmental risk analyses
- Economic and social impact analyses
- Demographic and geospatial analyses
Data Management and Analysis
- Program measurement and evaluation
- Analytics and visualization
- Data scraping and analysis
- Root cause analysis