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Michael Brown

Mr. Brown is a principal in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Brown & Gidding, P.C. where he directs the performance of defense-related tasks for a wide variety of industrial and municipal clients. He has been heavily involved in defense of governmental and private party Superfund and "toxic tort" litigation, as well as product safety litigation and Consumer Product Safety Commission enforcement proceedings.

Mr. Brown has long specialized in environmental, health and product safety law. His most recent government appointments have been at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as Acting Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and previously, as Enforcement Counsel and Deputy General Counsel. In these positions, Mr. Brown was responsible for the development and implementation of legal policies and strategies concerning the Agency's rulemaking and enforcement activities.

Mr. Brown is the author of numerous articles on environmental issues and is a frequent lecturer at environmental and product safety conferences. His other governmental experience includes service as General Counsel and later as Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Previously, he served as an Assistant General Counsel at the United States Department of Commerce.

Mr. Brown received his B.A. and L.L.B. (magna cum laude) from St. Mary's University in Texas and an L.L.M. degree in trade regulation from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
 
 
Jay Collert, CHMM, CET

Mr. Collert is a Certified Environmental Trainer and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager with more than 28 years experience in environmental laws and regulations, first with the United States Air Force, and now with Aarcher Institute of Environmental Training, LLC. His present duties include environmental training and consulting work throughout the United States. He teaches on a variety of subjects including hazardous waste, pollution prevention, wastewater, hazardous materials, environmental training requirements, storm water regulations and permits, environmental audits, environmental inspections, EPCRA, and environmental management systems.

Mr. Collert also develops new courses, writes student instructional materials, prepares lesson plans, and conducts needs analysis on environmental training requirements for clients. He conducts environmental compliance audits for companies and develops/reviews environmental management plans. Those plans include hazardous waste management plans, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans, Emergency Action Plans, Spill Prevention Controls and Countermeasure Plans, and RCRA Contingency Plans.

Over the past 12 years hundreds of clients have entrusted him to teach environmental training courses for them. Companies like IBM, Continental Airlines, Caterpillar, Abbott Labs, Kimberly Clark Corporation, Parker Hannifin, Marathon Oil, Pfizer, Merck, Atlas Roofing, Huntsman Materials, Westinghouse, Florida Power and Light, Masterfoods USA, Koch, Subaru, Ford, and Unocal, to name a few. He also has a number of federal facility clients that request his experience in the classroom. Agencies like the United States Air Force, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, United States Postal Service, and Sandia National Labs have all asked for him by name.

While on active duty with the United States Air Force, Mr. Collert held a number of positions within the environmental field. He was a certified water and wastewater plant operator and taught advanced water and wastewater operations at the United States Air Force Technical Training Center in Sheppard AFB, TX. He was the key course developer and lead instructor for 125-course days of instruction. .
 
 
John van Kirk

John Van Kirk is an Air Quality Specialist with nearly 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. His multi-disciplinary experience includes air quality, water quality, noise, hazardous materials, transportation, and land use planning. His primary air quality experience includes modeling, permitting, compliance, and facility site selection for the mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries. Mr. Van Kirk holds Bachelor’s degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies, and a Master’s degree in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
 
 
Rolf von Oppenfeld

  Mr. von Oppenfeld is with the TESTLaw Practice Group and is an AV rated attorney (Martindale Hubbell's highest rating) and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for four years. Mr von Oppenfeld previously worked as a chemist for the EPA and has conducted seminars on the Clean Air Act and air pollution issues. Rolf von Oppenfeld is an attorney who has published extensively in the area of air quality.

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Michael Owen, CSP, CET, CHMM

  Mr. Owen is an experienced firefighter and safety professional with more than 26 years experience providing safety-related training and consulting services.

Mr. Owen designs, develops, and instructs courses in various health and safety topics. He has provided training for all EPA/AHERA asbestos and EPA lead paint abatement certification levels. In addition, Mr. Owen serves as a Master Instructor for the International Association of Fire Fighters' Hazardous Materials programs. He has conducted thousands of hours of HAZWOPER training for all levels, including hazardous waste, TSD facility, and emergency response.

As a lost control specialist for the insurance industry, he was successful in reducing risk premiums for property management, heavy highway and utilities construction companies, and general industrial manufacturing. He was responsible for planning business activities and supervising loss control, managing claims, and providing on-site training, safety audits, job site inspections, and written safety programs.

Recently, Mr. Owen provided initial and refresher training at a world-class semiconductor manufacturing facility. These programs were designed based on the special needs of the client, reflecting the current state-of-the-art and unique hazards of the operations. Refresher courses were placed online for continuous student access.

Mr. Owen’s education includes a Master’s of General Administration in Applied Management from the University of Maryland University College. Mr. Owen also holds a B.S. in General Studies from the University of Maryland with a special emphasis in fire protection engineering and in safety and health education. He is a Certified Safety Professional, Certified Environmental Trainer, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Registered Environmental Manager, and Registered Chemical Hazardous Materials Manager.

Mr. Owen also has completed the requirements and is a NFPA Certified Fire Protection Specialist, BECA Certified Professional Environmental Auditor and conducts both ISO 9000 and 14000 Lead Auditor training programs.
 
   
 
David Piercey

  David J. Piercey has more than 25 years of experience in environmental and design engineering programs. Mr. Piercey has extensive experience in dealing with the intricacies of unique underground and aboveground storage tank applications, providing both technical and practical perspectives to storage tank management. Mr. Piercey has sat on USEPA discussion panels on current and future regulations.

Mr. Piercey lectures frequently on storage tank and SPCC issues, including presentations on New Tank Systems Design and Installation - An Engineering Art; Monitoring and Leak Detection – Proper Tank Inspections - More Bells and Whistles; Tank Closure - The Ultimate Risk Reduction Strategy; and Tank Testing. He is co-author of two books, Underground Storage Tank Management: A Practical Guide, 5th Edition, and Aboveground Storage Tank Management and SPCC Guide, 2nd Edition.

Mr. Piercey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Neumann College, as well as many professional certifications. He is a Vice President and co-founder of JD2 Environmental, Inc., where he manages storage tank programs for various commercial, industrial clients, and government agencies.
 
 
Brian Boose

Mr. Boose is an experienced NEPA practitioner, mentor, eductor, and trainer of professional, adult students. Since 2008, Brian has taught over 300 students in over 20 NEPA training courses; participants include both Federal agency staff and private consultants. Brian's friendly, knowledgeable teaching style, blended with over 20 years of practical, hands-on NEPA experience spanning the spectrum of agencies and proposed action types, provides instruction that is educational, entertaining, practical, and founded on real examples that provide real-time, real-value instruction for participants.
 
 
Joyce Rizzo

  Ms. Rizzo has more than 35 years experience in all aspects of environmental engineering and management, including 12 years with the petroleum industry. Ms. Rizzo spent 20 years as an environmental consultant involved in risk assessment and environmental engineering programs designed to evaluate potential risks and liabilities associated with facility operations and property transfer, storage tank management, and expert testimony.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Management Graduate Certificate from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She is the editor and principal author of Underground Storage Tank Management: A Practical Guide, 5th Edition, and Aboveground Storage Tank Management and SPCC Guide, 2nd Edition, co-founder of the Leak Detection Technology Association (LDTA), a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and Chairperson of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Technical Committee on Tank Leakage and Repair Standards. She conducts seminars on storage tanks and has authored numerous articles on storage tanks, environmental assessments, SPCC requirements and auditing.

Joyce A. Rizzo is President and co-founder of JD2 Environmental, Inc. (JD2), where she manages several storage tank inspection and auditing programs, develops and conducts specialized training programs, and for provides expert testimony on various aspects of storage tank management. JD2 is an environmental engineering and geoscience consulting firm that specializes in the management of both underground and aboveground storage tanks including certified inspection, auditing, design, installation, closure, remediation, and operations and maintenance programs; hydrogeological assessments; and environmental assessments for property transfer.
 
 
Joseph Santarella

Mr. Santarella Jr. is the founding member of Santarella & Eckert, LLC, which celebrates its fourteenth anniversary in 2010. Mr. Santarella brings a unique perspective to his environmental presentations by virtue of his broad and varied experience as an environmental attorney. He has represented both small and large businesses and municipalities on environmental compliance and permit matters, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on civil and criminal environmental enforcement matters and environmental permit matters, and environmental and labor organizations to enforce alleged environmental violations and ensure proper permitting of major industrial facilities including compliance with the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act.

A dynamic and passionate speaker, Mr. Santarella has given numerous presentations on a broad variety of environmental topics before federal and state agencies and departments, bar associations, and private and public learning institutions. For example, Mr. Santarella served as lead facilitator for EPA’s Environmental Enforcement Negotiations Course, and was a featured speaker on EPA’s Environmental Enforcement Negotiations Training videotape. He also has trained state environmental enforcement personnel on enforcement negotiation strategies and tactics on behalf of the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project and the Southern Environmental Enforcement Network within the National Association of Attorneys General, and served as a trainer for EPA Region 8’s CWA § 404 Enforcement Course for Army Corps of Engineers field offices. Mr. Santarella has written numerous articles on environmental law and authored the Enforcement and Liability Chapter within the 16th and 17th editions of the Environmental Law Handbook published by Government Institutes.

Mr. Santarella received his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University — National Law Center in 1987, where he dedicated more than a quarter of his legal education to the study of environmental law. He earned his undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with Honors in History in 1982. Mr. Santarella was born and raised on Staten Island, New York – he still has a New York accent (and attitude) and remains a diehard New York Yankees fan. A former competitive football, lacrosse and softball player, Mr. Santarella now channels his athletic energies to hiking, cycling and strength training.
 
 
William H. Spain

  William Spain has more than 32 years experience consulting, teaching, publishing, research, regulatory compliance, and technical management in occupational health and environmental science. He has worked for large corporations, the Federal Government, an engineering university, a national consulting/analytical/training corporation, and now a state government. This experience helps Mr. Spain understand and share the technical and other aspects of these professional fields from many different points of view.

Mr. Spain's current regular employment is as Unit Coordinator for Georgia’s Environmental Protection Division. He heads the Compliance and Enforcement Unit for the Lead-Based Paint and Asbestos Program. Prior to this he spent 11 years managing and directing divisions of an environmental consulting, analytical, and training firm. He was the National Director of The Environmental Institute for 10 years. In this capacity he directed and taught in more than 1500 environmental courses throughout the United States and the Western World. The courses included asbestos, lead, environmental chemistry, respirators, HAZWOPER, environmental site assessments, and others. Before this, he was Director of the Continuing Education and Publications Office for the Environmental Safety and Health Division at Georgia Institute of Technology/GTRI. There he helped develop and present hundreds of environmental and occupational health course offerings nationally and internationally. While at The Environmental Institute and Georgia Tech he helped write 5 Model Courses for U.S. EPA. He has helped teach courses for University of Indiana, Tufts University, Emory University, Georgia State University, Texas A&M, The Institute for Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences, The OSHA Training Institute, and Georgia Tech. Prior to his Georgia Tech employment, he worked for the U.S. Department of Labor/OSHA for nearly 7 years. He progressed from a GS 9 Field Industrial Hygienist, to a State Monitor Industrial Hygienist, to a Technical Support Industrial Hygienist, and then to a GS 13 Industrial Hygiene Supervisor working in their Saint Louis, Birmingham, and Raleigh area offices and Atlanta Regional Office. Mr. Spain's first full time employment was as an Industrial Hygienist in the Medical Department of McDonnell Douglas Corporation in Saint Louis. There he acquired valuable experience in air monitoring, noise measurement and control, respirators, medical investigations, and other Industrial Hygiene activities. Mr. Spain has dozens of refereed publications in sources such as the American Industrial Hygiene Journal, the National Asbestos Council Journal, Occupational Health and Safety Magazine, and Pediatrics>. He was Technical Advisor and Assistant Editor for Occupational Safety and Health Magazine for 5 years. He is the co-author of two published book chapters. He has a Magna Cum Laude joint B. I. S. Degree in Chemistry/Management/Communications from Georgia State University. He performed Industrial Hygiene Internship at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory/University of California.
 
   
 
A. Denise Turner, Ph.D.

Dr. Turner has more than sixteen years of experience in environmental consulting, training, biomedical product development, and research. She currently manages her own environmental consulting business working in the U.S. and Europe in product development, training, and technical oversight.

Prior to May 1996, she worked at RMCI, where she played a key role in training and business development. She also supported a 32-million dollar FAA Southern Region contract dealing with a broad range of environmental issues, including environmental audits, PCBs, emergency preparedness, asbestos, lead-based paint, and underground storage tanks. In addition to her technical and program management expertise, Dr. Turner's environmental experience also includes managing the multimillion dollar contract workload of EPA Region 4 for A.T. Kearney, in which she conducted more than 250 RCRA Facility Assessments (RFAs) and reviews of RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) work plans and reports. She has participated in risk assessments for EPA Regions 2 and 4, as well as reviewing Boiler and Industrial Furnace (BIF) permit applications for EPA.

Dr. Turner's commercial consulting experience includes the development of a national safety program for an international paper company, as well as conducting a complete management/safety audit of a major U.S. nonprofit organization struggling with increased OSHA and FDA regulation. She has also played key roles in numerous business proposals, which were awarded more than 250 million dollars in consulting contracts.

Dr. Turner has taught for Duke University, the University of Maryland, and Troy State University, as well as presenting more than 100 national workshops and training seminars in environmental chemistry, RCRA orientation, RCRA updates, environmental assessments, permit writing, and the identification of RCRA-regulated hazardous wastes. She has produced two biomedical patents and six publications in the “Journal of the American Chemical Society,” “Biochemistry,” the “Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,” “The British Journal of Phytotherapy,” and “Thrombosis and Haemostasis.” She also lectures for Government Institutes, the Environmental Institute, and Emory University. She is currently writing three technical books on environmental chemistry, phytochemistry, and phytopharmaceuticals.

Ph.D., Chemistry and Biochemistry, Duke University, 1986
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Chemistry; Clemson University, 1982
 
 
John L. Watson, Esquire

John Watson’s environmental and defense litigation practice ranges throughout the country as he represents companies and individuals in numerous federal and Colorado state courts and before federal, state, and local administrative agencies and commissions. As both defense trial attorney and counselor, he represents clients in a host of environmental matters including mass toxic tort litigation, as well as air, water, Superfund, and hazardous waste litigation. He also advises facility owners and operators on increasingly complex safety and health issues involving regulatory programs under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Mine Safety and Health Act, the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, and solid and hazardous waste regulatory programs.

With over 30 years in practice, Mr. Watson is extremely well versed in all these matters. He was recognized for his expertise in being tapped to serve as the Chair of the Colorado Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section (in 1979 and again in 2003). He also served as Chair of the America Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ Committee on Toxic Torts and Environmental Litigation.

Mr. Watson has defended companies in mass toxic tort litigation since 1989. For example, he successfully defended a mining and milling company in federal court where a a putative class of 24,000 plaintiffs sought $500 million in damages for property devaluation, physical injuries, and requested establishment of a medical monitoring program.. He defeated certification of the class action and led the defense case through to a jury verdict which awarded $79,600 to six bellwether plaintiffs. Two bellwether plaintiffs received no award from the jury, at all. No punitive damages or damages for medical monitoring were awarded to anyone.

Mr. Watson has written numerous articles and often speaks on environmental law and defense litigation issues. He serves on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and teaches a three-day course on environmental regulations several times a year. As an Adjunct Professor, he also taught environmental law at the University of Denver, College of Law for five years.

Mr. Watson received his undergraduate degree, with distinction, from Colorado State University and his law degree from the University of Denver College of Law.
 
 
Gary L. Lage, PH.D., D.A.B.T.

  Gary Lage has over 30 years’ experience in Toxicology and Pharmacology with an emphasis in the areas of risk assessment and environmental impact. With 20 years of academic experience, he has had a major input into the evolution of the science of toxicology and has been involved in determining risk assessment for hazardous waste facilities and advising State and Federal agencies on policies concerning toxic chemicals. Dr. Lage was a member of the Air Pollution Control Board and played a major role in setting the air toxic contaminant guidelines for the City of Philadelphia in the early 1980's.

Dr. Lage has his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy and Master of Science and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and is Board Certified by the American Board of Toxicology in General Toxicology. He has served as Treasurer of the Society of Toxicology, President of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Toxic Health Advisory Committee and Member of the Vietnam Herbicide Information Commission for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He served as a Member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Advisory Committee. Dr. Lage now runs his own firm, ToxiLogics. He has served as a Senior Program Director with ERM Inc., for the Health Science Practice which encompassed the activities of toxicology, risk assessment, and industrial hygiene. Prior to ERM, he was with Environ Corporation.
 
   
 
Lisa Woods Munger

  Ms. Lisa Woods Munger is a Partner with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel. She has practiced in the fields of environmental law, antitrust law and commercial litigation since 1978. In the field of environmental law, Ms. Munger represents businesses and landowners in civil litigation, administrative enforcement proceedings, permit assistance, rule making and compliance counseling.

Ms. Munger has successfully defended clients in civil asbestos cases and air- related administrative enforcement actions. She has served as lead counsel for NPDES, storm water, and safe drinking water cases by government. Her extensive litigation experience also includes cases involving generators of waste in enforcement and remedial actions. She has offered counsel in the area of hazardous waste compliance and obtaining permits to export hazardous waste. Ms. Munger has assisted clients in preparation of environmental impact statements and defended developers in multiple citizens' suits challenging impact statements.

She is the editor of the Hawaii Environmental Law Handbook (published by Government Institutes Division, ABS Group Inc., 3rd Edition, 2000) This handbook is designed to provide a guide to Hawaii's environmental laws that affect the private sector. She is author of the Hawaii Chapter, State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (American Bar Association, 1990).

Ms. Munger is frequently a speaker at environmental law conferences and seminars. She graduated from the University of California in 1975 and received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1978.
 
 
 
Robert Pojasek


Dr. Pojasek is a senior program manager with Capaccio Environmental Engineering, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts. He is an internationally recognized authority on the topics of process improvement and business sustainability. With 37 years experience working with a diverse range of manufacturing and service sectors, non-government organizations (NGOs) and governments, he has helped organizations plan and implement process improvement programs. He has published a book entitled, “Making the Business Case for Environment, Health and Safety.” It won the APEX Award for Publication Excellence in 2006.

His consulting work involves the development of fully-integrated management systems (e.g., ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001) which incorporate risk management, lean and a business excellence framework to create the foundation for a business sustainability program.

In 2006, Dr. Pojasek was named “P2 Champion” by the (US) National Pollution Prevention Roundtable and also won special recognition for his pollution prevention work in Canada with an award from the Canadian Pollution Prevention Roundtable. He is the lead author on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s publication, “An Organizational Guide to Pollution Prevention.”

Dr. Pojasek has served on numerous industry and government advisory boards, both in the United States and in other countries. He has lectured at universities and public gatherings around the world and is highly sought after as a keynote speaker and corporate leadership trainer and coach. Dr. Pojasek is also an Adjunct Professor at Harvard University where he teaches a distance-learning course “Environmental Management Strategies: The Path to Sustainable Development.” He won the Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching award in 2008.

Dr. Pojasek received his bachelor’s degree (Chemistry) with high distinction at Rutgers University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
 
 
R. Craig Anderson

Craig Anderson is currently a partner in the northern Virginia law firm of HALE CARLSON BAUMGARTNER, PLC, and has been associated with the law firm since 1995. He represents a variety of clients with civil legal issues and problems, focusing on business, corporate and commercial contracts, leases, regulatory and environmental/land use matters, and other related areas. He also provides wills, trusts and estate planning services for clients of the firm, in conjunction with that practice section.

During the four-year period from February 1997 through March 2001, Mr. Anderson was “Of Counsel” to the law firm, and assumed full-time responsibilities as the General Counsel for an engineering services company in northern Virginia. He also acted as legal advisor for an affiliated public company whose products included a fire suppressant and an industrial odor control chemical compound. Both companies had outside attorneys for patent and securities specialty work. Mr. Anderson advised senior officials in the company’s four divisions on the balance of legal issues that arose in the course of their execution of government and private contracts.

Mr. Anderson served as an Air Force lawyer (Judge Advocate) throughout a 20-year career. When he transitioned from the Air Force to private practice in 1994, he had just completed a four-year tour as the Chief, Environmental Law Branch, Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base, in Hampton, Virginia. That branch had three full-time environmental attorneys, and provided advice and legal services to over 30 base-level legal offices. Mr. Anderson was the primary legal advisor to command senior leadership and command engineers on all aspects of environmental law requirements.

Mr. Anderson earned an LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree in Environmental Law (With Highest Honors) and ranked first in his class from The George Washington University in 1992. He received his basic law degree (J.D.) from the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1977. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, from which he graduated 14th in his class in 1974, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. He received an award at graduation as the Outstanding Cadet in Political Science.
 
 
Dr. W. Travis Horton, P.E., Ph.D

President, HVAC Design Engineering
Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering, Purdue University

Dr. Horton is a professional engineer and a professor of Architectural Engineering at Purdue University, and is dedicated to improving the energy efficiency of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings and their systems. Dr. Horton has eight years of experience in the field of energy conversion systems, including heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, and electrical systems; combined heat and power systems, and building energy modeling techniques. Dr. Horton teaches courses in building energy systems and energy auditing techniques at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
 
 
Carl V. Huber, P.E.

Huber Environmental, Inc.

Carl. V. Huber, P.E., has been an engineering consultant for over 30 years and is presently in private practice as a consultant in Atlanta, GA. His areas of expertise include industrial and municipal wastewater treatment, water quality planning and permitting, compliance auditing and regulatory negotiation. In conjunction with this experience, Mr. Huber has served as a technical consultant on regulatory development at both the state, national and international levels. He served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee during the drafting of the 1987 Clean Water Act Amendments. Also, he has been involved in consultation to states on establishing permitting procedures and has worked with many major industries on NPDES strategies.

Mr. Huber is past President of the Water Environment Federation and also was a consultant for the United Nations World Environmental Committee whose projects have involved non-North American problems specifically in areas of environmental control relating to industry. These assignments have included Tunisia, Thailand, Turkey, Taiwan and Jordan. A Diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, Mr. Huber is registered as a Professional Engineer in many states. He received his Master of Science in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in Sanitary Engineering and Public Works Administration from the University of Michigan.
 
 
June C. Bolstridge, QEP

June C. Bolstridge, QEP, is president of GAIA Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland and an Environmental Engineer with more than 25 years of experience in assisting corporations and government agencies in understanding and meeting hazardous and toxic chemical regulatory and information requirements. She is an nationally recognized expert on EPCRA, and has supported industry’s EPCRA compliance activities since the requirements were first implemented including by assisting EPA in the implementation of EPCRA, and the Toxic Release Inventory requirements during the first three years of the program, including by preparing numerous U.S. EPA official guidance documents for EPCRA, and by creating and presenting EPA's initial EPCRA training course, including training the EPA Hotline personnel; Developing and presenting more than 80 different technical courses, seminars, and workshops on EPCRA and spill reporting compliance; Authoring numerous published articles and texts concerning the EPCRA requirements, including an EPCRA Manual, which is a facility manager's guide to understanding EPCRA; and providing EPCRA site reviews and compliance recommendations to corporations in industry sectors including: paints and coatings, specialty chemical manufacture, metal forming and fabrication, aerospace, commercial aviation, pharmaceuticals, meat packing, baking, automotive, leather, rubber, composites, petroleum refining, coal and metal ore mining, smelting, wood products, military weapons manufacture, chemical weapons destruction, automotive and heavy vehicle manufacture, telecommunications, and waste neutralization and incineration.

Ms. Bolstridge is an expert on chemical information tracking and management at the corporate and agency levels, including serving as a subject matter expert for chemical data specification and information management system design efforts by the U.S. Department of Defense to establish a consistent and comprehensive source for chemicals’ hazardous properties that affect environmental impacts, and the safety and health of personnel; providing spill prevention planning, evaluation, and notification assistance to major corporations to assist in meeting the types of immediate notifications that are required for environmental compliance at the local, state, and national levels.

Ms. Bolstridge provides expert assistance by tracking and analyzing the environmental, safety, and health developments of the European Union (EU) for a select group of Fortune 100 corporations, including identifying recent legislative and regulatory changes, and their implications for corporate programs and products. She prepares summaries of the requirements that have significant impacts on corporations’ manufacturing, R&D, or marketability, and provides recommendations on strategic planning to address the requirements that are appearing in near future.
 
 
Michael Bowen

Mr. Bowen has 31 years professional experience in marine engineering and industrial applications, management positions, and management systems as auditor, consultant and trainer. In addition to working as an independent contractor, he is currently providing subcontract services in training and consulting work for Aarcher Institute.

Related Professional Experience:
  • ABS Consulting, Training and Consulting Division, Senior Consultant
    January 2001 to October 2004 - Conducted consultative services and training for ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems, ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, and the International Safety Management (ISM) Code in manufacturing, transportation service and marine industries. Conducted ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 audits on a subcontract basis to ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc.

  • ABS Group, Inc., ABS Quality Evaluations, Inc., Senior Auditor
    May 1995 to December 2000 - Conducted ISO 9001 & ISO 9002 quality system 3rd-party certification audits of companies in various business sectors including marine, warehouse/transportation, electronics, and manufacturing.

  • Self-employed dba Maritime Consulting Services
    August 1994 to April 1995 - Developed both U.S. Coast Guard and EPA oil spill contingency plans for oil-handling facilities/terminals; also developed vessel oil spill contingency plans for the states of California and Washington.

  • U. S. Coast Guard
    June 1973 to July 1994: Retired at the rank of Commander (O-5) in July, 1994. Service included:
    • five years sea duty as Assistant Engineer and Chief Engineer on two Coast Guard cutters
    • 13 years USCG inspection of U.S. and foreign flag commercial vessels for compliance with U.S laws/regulations and international treaties; served as Chief, Vessel Inspection Department, at the CG Marine Safety Office in Houston, TX, 1990 - 1994.

    Credentials:
  • RAB Registered Quality Management Systems Lead Auditor, #Q07854

    Education:
  • B.S., U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1973
  • ISO 9001:2000 Transition Auditor Training, DnV Certificate # ATL-002-38132082-QAT-PC-01
  • ISM Code Auditor Training, March 2001
  • ISO 14001 Lead Auditor Training, April 2002
 
 
Patrick Stoll

Patrick Stoll is the owner/operator of Compass Environmental Compliance Associates (Compass). Mr. Stoll has over 25 years of experience in the hazardous material/hazardous waste management field. He has worked as a hazardous waste regulatory inspector for a state environmental agency, the Idaho Branch Manager of a regional environmental consulting firm, and more recently, as the owner of an independent environmental training and consulting firm specializing in hazardous material management. As the originator of the Mastering RCRA: The Regulatory Toolbox course and many other hazardous waste management classes, Stoll has developed and presented well over a hundred courses for private companies and government agencies throughout the country. Course evaluations have consistently ranked Stoll as one of the top environmental regulatory instructors in the industry today. With degrees in both environmental science and education, combined with years of hands-on field experience, Mr. Stoll is uniquely suited to provide training in this complex and challenging area.
 
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