The environmental practice for toxic torts is staffed with experts in the areas of natural resource damages; remediation cost recovery, toxicology and risk assessment. Natural Resource Damages (NRD) cases arise under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) as well as similar state statutes. The experts at Robson Forensic have a thorough understanding of the complex issues concerning injury determination and quantification of NRD with respect to the remediation and the terrestrial and aquatic wildlife restoration measures.
The experts at Robson Forensic are environmental practitioners with extensive backgrounds in:
- Verifying conformance with environmental requirements
- Evaluating the effectiveness of in-place environmental systems, and
- Assessing risks from regulated and unregulated materials and practices.
We do this through field investigations, laboratory analyses, data analyses, computer simulations, and the formulation, screening, and evaluation of alternatives.
Our expert services include:
- Investigating sites for the presence and extent of hazardous and toxic chemicals and wastes,
- Assessing the health risks of their presence,
- Evaluating the design of facilities handling hazardous wastes, and
- Evaluating proper remediation technologies, and the closure or reuse of contaminated sites
Our experts are highly respected members in their fields and can guide a client through a site assessment and investigation, to evolving a mature conceptual site model, to looking ahead at site re-use and the cost recovery under federal statutes such as CERCLA, state statutes, and common-law.
- Hydraulic Fracturing - Expert Article on the Impact to Drinking Water Supplies
Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is a practice associated with unconventional natural gas development involving the high-pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals deep underground to break up rock and shale formations and release deposits of natural gas. The fracking process has been known to create environmental problems such as contaminating groundwater that supplies communities with their drinking water, vapor intrusion of natural gas and chemicals into homes, and air pollution.
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- Understanding Ocean Engineering: Gulf Currents & HAZMAT Issues
Ocean engineers combine several types of engineering. It is a mix of techniques and skills from mechanical, electrical, civil and chemical engineering...
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- The Long Term Impacts of Adding Oil to the Gulf Coast Eco-System
The Long Term Impacts of Adding Oil to the Gulf Coast Eco-System: How will this affect our land, water, and air?
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- DuPont Found Grossly Negligent in 2004 Spill
On Monday, July 13, 2009, the jury hearing the 2004 DuPont Litigation returned a verdict in excess of $1.25 million for plaintiffs, who are but six of the 179 individuals suing E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company for injuries they sustained as a result of DuPont's October 11, 2004 release of clouds of toxic fuming sulfuric acid from its Wurtland plant over large portions of Greenup County, Kentucky. The remaining 173 plaintiffs' cases will be tried, under the streamlined trial plan developed by the Honorable David L. Bunning, as soon as Octover 2009.
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- The Role of the Indoor Environmental Professional in Mold Remediation - Expert Article
Mold is prominent in the news. But why now? This article summarizes some salient
issues involving mold, including: (a) the current status of mold “science” and
regulations; (b) what causes mold within indoor environments; (c) how the presence of
mold is evaluated, and its implications for exposure; and (d) basic considerations in
mold remediation projects.
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- Robson Forensic Brochure
Robson Forensic has been providing high quality and professional forensic engineering, architectural, scientific and
investigative services throughout the United States since 1987. Robson Forensic provides expertise in a broad range of forensic and technical disciplines.
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