Entry by JoeDerhake Entry Environmental consulting is a fine field for entrepreneurship; in fact that is how I ended up in this field. In college I did internships with Texas Instruments and a medium-sized environmental consulting firm.   Upon graduation I turned down an offer to work as an engineer in Texas Instrument’s semiconductor division for…

Entry by JoeDerhake Entry When doing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, sometime the facts are on the border between a recognized environmental condition and an environmental issue.   This blog is my latest in a series of borderline decisions.   Here is the scenario: the Phase I ESA finds a classic REC on site.  Let’s say we…

Entry by JoeDerhake Entry There has been much discussion about the creation of a national environmental professional registration system and having a new ASTM Standard to require that a ‘Registered’ Environmental Professional conduct a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA). I support such a requirement, as Environmental Professionals too often have to compete with either…