Environmental Permitting & Compliance

Proven Experience

WESTON has provided Environmental Permitting & Compliance services for many strategic clients.

For a Confidential Automotive Client, WESTON provided a full-range of environmental services necessary for the siting, construction, and operation of a major state-of-the-art automobile manufacturing facility. This included developing a waste minimization program to reduce volume and minimize hazardous characteristics of all plant waste streams. The program provided procedures for waste stream inventorying, prioritization based on toxicity and volume, waste minimization evaluation, and implementation.

For a Power Company, WESTON provided services related to property development and preliminary site civil engineering planning for two parcels of property located in northeastern Illinois.

For an Automotive Company, WESTON is supporting plant construction, renovation, and expansion. Our team provides fast-track permitting support to protect the construction critical path schedule; early development of a regulatory strategy to prevent false starts, and therefore cost inefficiencies, and a corrective action approach that allows uninterrupted production and revenue generating capacity.

For SkyChefs, WESTON surveyed, designed, and conducted removal oversight of asbestos at their operations at JFK and Chicago O'Hare Airports in a phased, modular approach to allow continued operations of their facilities while complying with regulations. The approach saved SkyChefs from both the headache of operating offsite during abatement as well as the cost of relocating operations to facilities equipped to maintain production. Working around the clock, the areas were abated in record time and returned to full operation faster than planned.

For the United States Postal Service (USPS), WESTON surveyed over 800 facilities for asbestos and lead-based paint in order to comply with OSHA and NESHAP regulations. We also worked with national and regional USPS task forces to develop a $200 million nationwide asbestos and lead-based paint management program, drafted implementation policies, assisted with the development of standard protocols, and prepared standard Statements of Work (SOWs) for assessments, surveys, and abatement. The SOWs were used for issuing IDQs on a state-by-state basis for abatement, with potential savings of $17 million compared to the conventional A&E contracting approach.

For a Confidential Manufacturing Client, WESTON assisted in developing an environmental early warning system to alert staff involved in product development that a product design or formulation being considered may be unmarketable in certain parts of the world due to regulatory restrictions. The results are reduced product development costs on a product that cannot be brought to market due to environmental restrictions.