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ESI focuses on quality work tailored to the customer’s needs and has developed singular capabilities in the following areas:
- Vulnerability Assessments for Water Utilities and Your Critical Infrastructure
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- Environmental Security For Critical Infrastructure
- Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
- Environmental Assessment and Investigations
- Audit and Voluntary Disclosure Policy
- Governmental Relations and Regulatory Affairs
- Litigation Support and Consulting Services
- Environmental Technology
ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY FOR YOUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
EWA/ESI Environmental Security Review, Threat Assessment, and Implementation
of Chemical Industry Security Code and Management Principles
Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) and its environmental security partner Environmental Security International (ESI), have brought together experts in security and threat assessment, environmental management and counter-terrorism to assess and minimize your risks from external and internal threats, including:
* Biological or chemical agents introduced to the water, air or land;
* Transportation, storage, and management of hazardous materials;
* Computer Hacker and other attacks to information and control systems;
* Fatal flaw analysis of facility security and infrastructure protection plans; and
* Industrial plant as a weapon of destruction defense strategies.
On January 30th, 2002 the American Chemistry Council (ACC) announced that security guidelines developed by the ACC would be mandatory for its members. EWA and ESI
have developed an environmental management and security audit for facilities, as well as third party verification that security improvements have been implemented.
EWA and ESI offer on site security review, environmental management gap analysis, and threat assessment in the areas of: (1) operations and security; (2) hazardous materials, chemical, and waste management; (3) trucking and rail operations; (4) network and control system security; (5) toxic/hazardous inventory reduction and management; (6) perimeters and external threat assessment; (7) compliance and integration analysis of security, environmental management, and operations.
For more than 20 years, EWA has provided technology and services to our customers, including all of America's armed forces and intelligence services, providing critical systems, components and expertise in wide-ranging mission areas. These capabilities are now brought to bear on the growing need to provide greater levels of protection to critical industrial, environmental and utility infrastructure. Many EWA personnel have had extensive and recent field experience in U.S. military special operations and intelligence services, bringing with the invaluable perspective of the adversary in assessing and re-mediating security threats.
To meet clients' security needs, EWA and ESI engineer deep, layered, and customized defenses that are designed to reduce vulnerabilities, and to deter, defeat, and recover from a wide variety of both internal and external attacks. Our systems encompass all aspects of facility security, including remote threat assessments and security policy review and development, remote sensing, guard-force management, real-time monitoring of air and water-borne toxics, network, data and Web security.
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Environmental Management Systems (EMS):
ESI designs and assists in the implementation of customized environmental management systems for specific customer needs.
We recognize that one size does not fit all. If, after consultation with our client, it is clear that they must have ISO 14000 certification to meet their needs, then ESI will build an EMS that is in conformity with ISO 14000.
However, ESI recognizes that benefits such as cost savings through such measures as pollution prevention, waste reduction, or energy efficiency can be achieved by EMS's that do not need to meet the paperwork requirements of 14000 certification.
Other benefits such as improved environmental compliance and performance , reduced environmental risk, lower insurance premiums, reducing the risk of government enforcement actions, and strengthening stakeholder relations, can be achieved by tailoring cost effective EMS's to meet specific client needs.
ISO certification by itself does not mean that the client will obtain these benefits.
ESI can develop innovative, yet practical, cost effective EMS's by incorporating new technology into a new or existing EMS.
Cost savings can be realized by utilizing electronic reporting and record keeping for simplification of these requirements, and by achieving real time measurement of environmental performance, and the timely detection of system failures.
ESI also develops risk-based EMS's by integrating risk assessment and risk control principles into an environmental management system. ESI uses environmental professionals to customize environmental management systems to meet our client's individual needs.
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Environmental Assessments, Audits and Investigations:
ESI performs top quality environmental audits, assessments and investigations, including Phase I and II investigations, independent reviews of environmental impact statement (under NEPA).
Additionally, ESI will be able to assist law firms and corporations in the evaluation of the potential environmental liability in corporate transactions. All ESI's projects are staffed by persons who have achieved recognition in their field.
Our assessments and investigations are distinguished by our ability to handle sensitive and complex projects that involve potential criminal and civil enforcement issues.
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Audit Policy and Voluntary Disclosure Policy:
Most states and the US Federal government have implemented audit and voluntary disclosure polices that allow corporations to avoid criminal prosecution and mitigate civil penalties for violations of environmental laws and regulations.
The principals of ESI have participated in drafting of these national and state policies and are uniquely situated to provide guidance and advice to corporations and law firms that wish to take advantage of these policies.
ESI will conduct internal investigations under the direction of counsel, thus preserving the attorney-client privilege, and determine how best to minimize the consequences of violations that have been discovered during ESI's investigations and audits.
In order take full advantage of these policies ESI will develop and implement an Environmental Management System that meets governmental standards, including the federal acquisition regulation governing debarment matters.
Implementation of these Systems will minimize the risk of future enforcement actions.
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Governmental Relations and Regulatory Affairs:
ESI specializes in coordinating all governmental relations and regulatory affairs relating to environmental laws, regulations and policies.
ESI will assemble a team of attorneys and policy specialists that will coordinate your permitting, regulatory, and lobbying needs.
Based on the prior work experience of the staff of ESI at the federal, state and local environmental agencies, we will be able to develop governmental relations strategies for corporations, including permitting assistance and regulatory processes, that will result in achieving goals in a cost effective manner.
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Litigation Support and Consulting Services:
ESI provides expert consultation on all international, federal and state environmental laws and regulations. ESI can support complex civil and criminal litigation support, handling cases from pre-trial investigations to settlement negotiations.
EPA also advises and provides expert witness and scientific consultants for all environmental litigation matters
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Environmental Technology:
ESI provides support and guidance in implementing cutting edge technology for all environmental compliance and monitoring needs of for corporations.
ESI has developed specialized remote sensing and information technology applications that support environmental managements systems, creating cost efficiencies and reducing environmental risks.
ESI has worked with Project XL's electronic reporting initiatives and can provide full innovative technological solutions to environmental regulatory requirements.
ESI has partnered with technology firms to provide cutting edge products that are specialized for environmental compliance monitoring and management systems
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