This primer highlights some of the issues that arise in each of these important stages of a company's relationship with an environmental consultant.
Environmental consultants span numerous disciplines and possess a wide variety of capabilities.
Some firms can perform cleanup work or other field functions, while others may only perform analysis and investigative tasks. For example, the complexity of a long-term Superfund cleanup requires different talents than a health and safety audit at a single facility. The trick is to find the right consultant at the right terms for the job at hand. The task of finding a qualified environmental consultant is complicated by the sheer number of firms now offering such services. The vast array of environmental laws and predictions of billions of dollars in cleanup work has fueled a modern-day gold rush in the environmental contracting industry.