Environmental Solutions ESG Support Service

We apply our multi-disciplinary expertise to help clients better understand the risks and opportunities associated with the environmental footprint of their operations. This allows us to work with corporate decision makers to develop strategies that integrate with other aspects of their ESG compliance and reporting to develop solutions that strengthen their business and their relationships with stakeholders.

The Environmental Solutions practice brings together environmental scientists, data scientists and GIS specialists, forensic historians, ecologists, engineers, former regulators, accountants, and attorneys. Our team can help clients identify potential risks and opportunities and work with them to incorporate those considerations into strategic planning, inform asset management decisions, and develop solutions to move toward nature-positive outcomes.

Pollution and Waste Management

Inventory legacy environmental pollution sites and assess economic exposures.
Work with client environmental managers to identify potential impacts and risks of current waste streams.
Identify potential opportunities at active and legacy sites to further reduce pollution, incorporate green remediation, and develop other sustainable or nature-positive solutions.

Data Analysis and Mapping

Assess internal data and metrics already collected to support ESG analysis and reporting.
Identify trusted / validated external data sources to supplement internal data.
Design and implement collection processes to fill data gaps.
Create centralized data access and display platform to facilitate data access, communication, and decision-making.

Biodiversity

Assess current biodiversity-related data collection and reporting efforts relative to metrics commonly used to assess biodiversity in scientific, regulatory, or other reporting frameworks to support recommendations for program enhancements.
Evaluate consistency with Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework using LEAP Nature Risk Assessment Approach.

Environmental Justice

Review demographic and geographic data in vicinity of current operations and legacy environmental sites to identify potential Environmental Justice communities.
Identify facility and community environmental data available to characterize and prioritize areas for further analysis.

Reporting and Communications

Integrate with existing ESG reporting.
Develop talking points for use in both internal and external stakeholder engagement.

Environmental Cost Analysis

Cost Allocation Framework Development
Damages Claims Development & Evaluation
NCP Consistency & Cost Recoverability Evaluations— Corporate Lineage & Financial Viability Analysis— PRP Group Trust Accounting

Additional Environmental Solutions Practice Service Offerings

Data Management & Data Science

Litigation Database Management
Technology Assisted Data Review
Litigation Analytics & Trial Support
Damages Quantification Modelling

Forensic Historical Research

PRP Search & Contaminant Nexus Analysis
Chemical/Contaminant Use and Disposal Studies
Federal Involvement Studies
Industry Practices & State-of-Knowledge
Product Liability Analysis

Testimony

Expert Witness Services
30(b)(6) Company Witness Services
Testimony in Regulatory Agency Proceedings

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Arbitration
Mediation
Neutral Fact-Finding
PRP Group Convening

Analytical & Technical Services

Geospatial Analysis
Chemical/Contaminant-specific Evaluations
Natural Resources Analysis
Biodiversity Assessments in support of TNFD, GRI, or SBTN reporting
Technical Causation, Pathway, and Claims Analyses

Areas of Expertise

Chemicals (e.g., PFAS, PCBs, etc.)— Sediment Sites/Urban Waterways— Natural Resource Damages
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Manufacturing
Mining and Smelting
Petroleum
Product Liability
Groundwater Contaminant Plumes— 3rd Party Disposal Sites (Landfills)