Practice Areas:  Environmental Studies   (Return to Practice Areas)

NewPoint Group has developed a specialization in performing unique, state-of-the art studies in the environmental and natural resource areas. These large, complex, and multi-disciplined engagements require combining and integrating numerous functional areas of expertise.

Our environmental studies competence provides management solutions for government environmental and natural resource programs and projects. These engagements usually require effectively integrating numerous disciplines such as engineering, economics, planning, and environmental sciences.

We have assisted clients with project management and preparation of environmental documents, including Negative Declarations as well as full programmatic Environmental Impact Reports. NewPoint Group has also provided Assembly Bill 939 (AB 939) and general recycling planning assistance.

Examples of four recent multi-disciplined NewPoint Group environmental studies (several of which were multi-year projects) are as follows:

• Preparing an Environmental Impact Report for the California Delta Egeria densa Control Program for the California Department of Boating and Waterways
• Performing economic and operations modeling of California’s proposed hazardous waste classification system for the California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control
• Reengineering of the State of California’s ten-year-old beverage container and recycling program for the California Department of Conservation
• Evaluating the Transportation Energy Technology Advancement Program for the California Energy Commission.

Our environmental studies often have involved assessment of one or more of the following functional areas:

• Alternative Transportation Technologies
• Energy Systems
• Hazardous Waste Management
• Land Use Planning
• Refuse and Recycling Collection and Operations
• Solid Waste Landfills
• Water Resources Management
• Wastewater Infrastructure.

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