Environmental Engineering Expert Witnesses
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What is an environmental engineering expert witness?
Environmental engineering expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers with degrees in environmental engineering, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering, mechanical engineering, hydrogeology, structural engineering, and/or civil engineering. Environmental engineering, a subdiscipline of civil engineering and chemical engineering, is focused on protecting the health of living beings, as well as improving environment quality. Environmental engineering experts have a combination of advanced degree (PE, PhD) and specialty experience in one or more subdisciplines.
What types of cases require an environmental engineering expert witness?
Environmental engineering covers multiple disciplines including chemistry, biology, geology, hydraulics, and hydrology. Cases that require an expert in environmental engineering can include regulatory compliance, remediation of harmful substances, or personal injury.
Environmental engineering expert witness case examples
Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous clients to locate expert witnesses that can support environmental engineering matters. Example matters have involved:
- wastewater treatment plant regulatory compliance,
- polluted groundwater supply in New York,
- accident reconstruction,
- asbestos remediation cost estimates,
- indoor air quality,
- Mississippi real estate development analysis,
- drinking water quality,
- storm water risk assessments,
- hazardous waste management, and
- landfills.
What litigation support work might an environmental engineering expert witness be expected to perform?
Expert witness services by an environmental engineer could include failure analyses, forensic engineering, research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition testimony, and courtroom testimony. In addition, clients may seek an environmental engineering professional for pre-litigation expert consulting services. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an environmental engineering professional with expert witness testimony experience.
Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an environmental engineering expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.
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Environmental Engineering Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Environmental Engineering experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Environmental Engineering landscape.
Expert Witness #256793
This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment, most recently as a Principal Scientist of Health Services. This expert directed several multi-million dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at a trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #256820
This expert earned a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Health and has many years of experience in environmental engineering, industrial hygiene and building materials exposure assessment. This expert directed several multimillion dollar environmental remediation projects, superfund and environmental site and public health investigations including some with high public profiles. This expert has been retained as an expert witness in class action toxic tort litigation support for industrial clients and has testified at trial in defense of an oil refinery for a matter related to air quality impact from a large oil spill. This expert has a wealth of expert witness experience, including matters involving alleged chemical and biological exposure-related personal injury claims. This expert has provided deposition and testimony at trial.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #256846
This expert earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering, and has been an adjunct and visiting professor and a guest lecturer. This expert heads a firm engaged in sustainability, environmental, remediation and health & safety services. This expert has a wealth of experience as an expert witness, including support provided in 5 environmental class actions. This expert has deposition and testimony experience. This expert has been a keynote speaker at conferences, has written a chapter, and has two patents.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #256817
This expert has many years of experience in environmental impact assessment and is currently Principal of an environmental consultancy focused on environmental science, engineering and forensic investigations. This expert has extensive experience with lawsuits in which alternative explanations, alternative sources, and confounder sources were critical to the outcome of the case. Such experience extends to litigations related to property damage, toxic tort, and medical monitoring. This expert has supported approximately 20 class action lawsuits (supporting both plaintiffs and defendants), which involved a range of contaminants: metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, PCBs, Dioxins, carbon black, pesticides, particulate matter, and others. This expert has experience with the class certification process, weighing variables such as distance, exposure routes, concentrations, duration of residency of any claimant, specific health claims of any claimant, etc. This expert has also had much experience constructing Daubert challenges in an attempt to thwart plaintiff claims. This expert has deposition and testimony experience. This expert has also published about 60 professional publications and lectures.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #260732
This expert holds an MS and PhD in Environmental Engineering and a DSc in Mercury Emissions Control and brings to the table many years of engineering and management experience contracting with US federal agencies and various international organizations. This expert's background includes process/reaction engineering, technology feasibility evaluation, and experience with technology commercialization, providing an in-depth understanding of issues related to air pollution control/prevention technologies. This expert has published over 100 presentations and publications, co-authored seven U.S. patents, and has received scientific and technological achievement awards.
This expert has been technically involved with mercury R&D, as well as technology development and evaluation.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #260710
This expert has worked for many years as a metallurgical engineer and environmental geochemist for mining and consulting companies. This expert has worked extensively on environmental and social issues related to mining. As an associate professor of an Institute of Mining Engineering, this expert's research and teaching topics are focused on different topics that lead to improve the image of mining and contribute for sustainable mining communities.
This expert has worked as an expert of a Global Mercury Project. This includes the implementation of Environmental and Health Assessment of mercury pollution in artisanal gold mining. The project also included the implementation of procedures to reduce mercury emissions and local fabrication of pieces of equipment to reduce exposure of miners to mercury vapors and increase gold recovery.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #260482
This expert brings to the table many years’ experience of bringing fundamental research through to practical implementation and full commercialization – based on technologies ranging from biomedical biosensors through to smart wound dressings and sensors for use within the food, water and environmental monitoring industries. This expert’s career to date has spanned academic departments of Chemistry, Medicine, Biotechnology, Materials Science and Engineering across every part of the University sector - with this being reflected in publications and ongoing research interests.
This expert’s research career has been focused towards sensors for food chain, medical and environmental applications. This expert is the author of >130 publications spanning areas of sensors, data transmission and food chain supply logistics and food safety having worked with agri-food and sensor- oriented companies.
This expert can bring extensive experience of acting as an expert witness in patent trials and arbitration cases.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #260955
This expert is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. This expert is also CEO and Co-founder of a firm that developed a software platform that automatically enriches and integrates facility operations information such as maintenance records and building IoT with building information models (BIM) to produce a 3D interactive visual information hub that provides facility managers, helpdesk and field technicians with intuitive access to actionable information when they need it most. This expert's research uses modeling and artificial intelligence to help visualize building information with big data. This expert has many years of experiences in software development in this field.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #267939
This water quality expert holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and has expertise in drinking water quality, USEPA drinking water standards, and treatment processes for community water supplies.
This expert is an academic professor specializing in environmental engineering in a civil and environmental engineering department. This expert received a B.E. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from a well-regarded university, as well as a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from another well-regarded university. This expert is a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer (BCEE) in the specialty of Water Supply and Wastewater through a professional environmental engineering academy.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #269836
This air quality expert holds a Ph.D. and is a P.E. with over 30 years of experience assessing risks of environmental chemicals. This expert has presented projects and research at numerous conferences on topics including acid rain, dense gas plume dispersion, indoor air quality and dispersion modeling, ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, multi-pathway risk assessment, methods to estimate exposure point concentrations, vapor intrusion, landfill gas, and environmental applications of decision analysis methods. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical institute.
This expert has experience evaluating Clean Air Act permitting issues, including Title V permits, emergency emissions provisions, and the Section 112(r)(1) General Duty Clause, which concerns regulated hazardous chemicals and safe management of those chemicals.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #280642
This industrial hygiene/asbestos expert is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Professional Engineer, holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, and has over 30 years of experience in the environmental industry. This expert previously held a senior environmental engineering role with a major company before co-founding an environmental consulting firm. This expert's primary responsibility is overseeing technical and field operations. This expert is also active in prominent industrial hygiene professional associations and has presented numerous seminars and lectures, as well as provided expert testimony in environmental legal matters.
This expert has direct experience with asbestos remediation and abatement, has designed and implemented asbestos exposure assessments, and is an asbestos special inspector. This expert has provided expert witness services in mold, lead, and asbestos for more than 20 years.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #285091
This environmental engineer/battery disposal expert is a licensed professional Environmental Engineer (P.E.) and university professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at a public university. This expert's familiarity with lithium-ion battery grinding stems from comprehensive graduate courses taught in pollution prevention, source reduction, reuse, recycling, treatment, disposal, and hazardous waste management.
This expert's background as a professional environmental engineer, consultant, expert witness, researcher, and professor provides a strong understanding of fundamental processes in environmental engineering. This expert has addressed diverse environmental challenges involving grinding processes, material separation techniques, emissions modeling, exposure mitigation strategies, and material recovery methods. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #285125
This hazardous materials disposal expert holds an M.Sc. in Natural Resources and a state-level hazardous materials investigations and program management credential, with over 20 years of experience in hazardous and acutely hazardous materials safety, regulatory compliance, environmental science, engineering, and regulatory affairs.
This expert has provided services to numerous clients in the semiconductor, printed circuit board, metal finishing, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, as well as to municipal, state, and federal government entities, including defense-related agencies. This expert's experience includes industrial process and wastewater treatment engineering, system monitoring and control design, risk assessment and management, and environmental and safety regulatory compliance.
This expert specializes in federal, state, and local regulatory requirements for industries handling large quantities of acutely hazardous materials and aqueous wastes.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286303
This environmental dispute investigation, liability assessment, timing and source of contamination expert is a registered Professional Engineer with over 25 years of experience in environmental assessment, remediation, and risk management, including over 20 years in environmental dispute investigation and management, cost containment, liability assessment, settlement negotiations, and expert witness services. This expert holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, serves in a senior engineering leadership role at an internationally recognized consultancy, and has conducted, managed, or overseen investigations and remediations at many sites across the country. This expert has been a member of a prominent standards committee responsible for preparing standards and guidelines for environmental investigations, environmental cost estimation, and other environmental risk management issues for over 10 years. This expert has consulted on hundreds of environmental cost recovery disputes and has been retained as an expert witness in over 30 cases.
This expert's areas of expertise include timing and source of contamination, review of costs associated with investigation and remediation, allocation of costs to different time frames, parties, or sources of contamination, and the defense of environmental consultants. Much of this expert's experience relates to work performed for insurance companies in environmental disputes where the timing of contamination is the primary area of disagreement. These cases range from small heating oil releases and underground storage tank (UST) issues to major releases from underground pipelines and aboveground storage tanks. This expert's main strategy in these cases is to rely on multiple lines of evidence, including environmental data, physical observations, witness accounts, operational data, and metallurgical analysis.
This expert has completed expert testimony on the timing of petroleum releases in non-insurance litigation, has been deposed over 30 times, and has testified at a number of trials and multiple arbitrations, including in international venues, as well as assisted in many mediations.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286561
This environmental sciences/sub-surface investigation expert is a senior environmental chemistry leader at a nationally recognized, award-winning environmental consulting firm with multiple offices in the eastern and midwestern United States, providing due diligence, environmental building sciences services, regulatory compliance services, subsurface investigation, and remediation services to a wide range of market segments, and has over 30 years of experience in environmental engineering, chemistry, and project management. This expert is familiar with a wide range of environmental regulations, including RCRA, CERCLA, LUST, and USEPA Contract Laboratory Protocol, and has extensive experience with a variety of state-led risk-based closure programs.
This expert has performed and managed hundreds of residential, commercial, and industrial site assessments, site investigations, and remediation projects involving heavy metals, PCBs, petroleum, PFAS and emerging contaminants, and chlorinated solvents.
This expert has investigated hundreds of sites to determine the nature and extent of contamination. The contaminated media included soil, groundwater, sediment, surface water, vegetation, air, and building materials. In expert witness work, this expert has provided expert reports, interrogatories, affidavits, depositions, and courtroom testimony addressing environmental investigation, the timing and sources of environmental releases, contaminant migration routes and pathways, reasonableness of response costs, and various other expert analyses.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #286788
This IAQ research and indoor environmental engineering expert has over 30 years of experience as an Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) researcher, sick building investigator, mitigation planner, healthy building design consultant, expert witness, technical author, and workshop instructor, and holds an M.S. Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious university, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical institute, and Graduate Studies in Air Pollution Monitoring and Control from a public university in California.
This expert serves as president of an indoor environmental engineering consultancy and directs an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists, chemists, and mechanical engineers in indoor air quality building investigations and healthy building projects. The team has developed both pro-active and reactive IAQ measurement methods and diagnostic protocols. This expert has been a recipient of state and federal research grants regarding building air quality and ventilation field studies, tracer gas techniques, in situ contaminant emission rate measurements, and the development of indoor air quality measurement instrumentation.
Prior to starting a consulting firm, this expert was a Staff Scientist with a building ventilation and indoor air quality program within a national laboratory in California. This expert has published extensively and lectured frequently on IAQ, ventilation, air cleaning, and product emission testing, and is both a licensed professional Mechanical Engineer and a Certified Industrial Hygienist.
This expert has been qualified numerous times in court as an expert in the field of indoor air quality and ventilation for both plaintiffs and defendants, and has been deposed over 150 times in cases involving indoor air quality and ventilation issues in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #289321
This water treatment expert holds ASSE 12080 certification in Legionella water safety and management and is a Florida DEP Class C Water Treatment Operator in the State of Florida, with senior operations leadership experience at a Florida water process service company.
This expert possesses extensive expertise in environmental engineering, particularly in addressing the long-term effects of excessive public water chlorination. With a background as a Florida DEP licensed water treatment plant operator, this expert has led numerous projects aimed at optimizing water treatment processes and has demonstrated a profound understanding of the intricate dynamics between chlorination levels and environmental impacts.
Hands-on experience conducting comprehensive water quality assessments and implementing tailored solutions underscores a commitment to mitigating the adverse effects of chlorination on public health and the ecosystem.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #289819
This chlorine expert is a professor in environmental sciences and engineering at a prestigious university, with research focused on water quality, including drinking water.
This expert is a disinfectant chemist and was part of a team that investigated the effect of chlorinated water on women and collaborated with a federal environmental agency on studying the health effects of chlorinated drinking water.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #296557
This oil and gas industry and environmental science expert holds an M.S. and P.E. and serves in a senior engineering role at a pipeline safety and mechanical integrity consultancy. This expert has over 15 years of specialized experience in the oil and gas energy industry, with extensive experience in transportation, integrity management, safety, processing and refining, and Process Safety Management (PSM). This expert's practical, hands-on expertise encompasses failure analysis of varied systems, integrating process and operational data, repair records, and relevant technical documentation. The analysis is grounded in direct experience operating, designing, and maintaining oil and gas assets, which helps ensure that conclusions are informed by real-world application rather than solely theoretical knowledge.
This expert possesses in-depth knowledge of U.S. and international safety regulations and industry standards, including PHMSA, OSHA, ASME, and API requirements. This expert has played a significant role in engineering, program, and project management activities aimed at ensuring safe operations, particularly in response to regulatory actions. This expert consistently employs the Department of Energy's Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodology, a rigorous framework used in engineering assessments and legal proceedings. This expert has experience testifying and drafting expert opinion and rebuttal reports.
This environmental consulting and air permitting expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. and serves in a senior role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. This expert has over 25 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry and has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities in the United States and Mexico.
This environmental consulting and air permitting expert holds an M.S. and serves in a senior role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. This expert has over 20 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry, including helping oil and gas companies develop and operate assets in accordance with environmental regulations. This expert has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities across the United States.
These experts have experience as expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Environmental Engineering Expert SearchExpert Witness #2372765
This electroplating expert is a PE and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering. While working for a major automotive manufacturer, this expert wrote zinc plating specifications for airbag sensor plating, ensured plating complied with design and environmental standards, and spent many months at a plating supplier addressing implementation issues. This expert also served as the environmental and safety officer for a military laboratory and ensured compliance with environmental standards.
Early in this expert's career, this expert authored an engineering paper using gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy and presented it at a professional venue. This expert has extensive expert testimony experience, including reports, depositions, and trials.
This expert notes that a closed-loop system should have been used, particularly given the dangers of hexavalent chromium as a pollutant, carcinogen, and contaminant. This also raises significant CERCLA issues involving environmental regulators. Polyfluoroalkyl substances also cannot be released into the environment or atmosphere and require special treatment and filtration systems.
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