Services Delivered - Environmental
The Shifting Dynamics in
Environmental Risk Management
Environmental risks vary widely depending on a company's industry, location, customer base, regulatory regime — even its shareholders' expectations. A common thread, however, is that environmental risks are a major consideration for all stakeholders and involve a host of business situations and management decisions, which makes environmental liability transfer a hot topic.The push by corporations to uniformly build and operate with green methods and systems around the globe and the desire by more budding economies to develop sustainability is the focus at the executive level. Integrating sustainability and resource management into how public and private companies provide their goods and services has gained momentum. Not to mention, concern over the skyrocketing energy costs. And, now more than ever, there is a watchful eye on the basics of human survival on earth – clean water, clean air, sufficient energy and usable land – all finite commodities.
How a company manages its environmental risks can not only affect its reputation and financial results but also can affect its competitive advantage and how it will fare in the global economy.
With so much on the line, your need for specialized environmental risk management expertise is now.
Beecher Carlson’s Specialized Environmental Liability Expertise
Beecher Carlson’s National Environmental Practice team members have structured, negotiated and placed hundreds of Pollution Liability, Cost Cap, and Environmental Professional Liability transfer programs for a wide array of Fortune 500 companies and ENR 300 engineers, consultants and contractors.We have designed programs for many notable Brownfield redevelopments, military base transfers, legacy liability transfers, real estate portfolio transactions and large construction projects.
Because we specialize in a handful of industries, we’re able to dig deep and leverage analytics to empower you with detailed information and a variety of solution choices. To get to the right solution for you, we’re asking the important questions, such as:
- What is your ultimate goal regarding your environmental risk, whether transactional, operational or legacy liability?
- Does your Environmental, Health & Safety expert understand the difference between environmental compliance and “environmental liability?”
- Do you have a clear understanding of all the gaps and/or opportunities for improvement in your environmental risk management program?
- Do you have boxes of legacy environmental reports you probably should open but haven’t?
