EEHS School 2021 all 3 days

Mr. Ronald Reed is The EI Group’s Senior Program Manager for Workplace Violence and Active is accustomed to working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and is known for his dynamic verbal communications skills.  He maintains a Security Clearance of Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) as of 1 March 2014 with Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI).  Ron received a bachelor’s degree in History & Political Science from Old Dominion University and served in the Special Operations Marine Training Group based in Camp LeJeune. 

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PJ is a registered Professional Engineer, a Certified Energy Manager and has worked in the manufacturing business for 6 years, all with Corning.  Prior to joining Corning, PJ worked for AECOM, formerly URS, in electrical design for the nuclear power industry for 6 years.  PJ graduated from University of New Orleans with a BS in Electrical Engineering.

PJ is currently the Business Continuity Program Manager for Corning’s Optical Fiber and Cable business as well as the Assistant Division Energy Manager.  He is responsible for Corning’s business continuity initiatives inclusive of managing and evaluating risk to global operations.  Previously, PJ was a Facilities Electrical Engineer also in Corning’s Optical Fiber and Cable business. His previous responsibilities included oversight of the facilities power distribution system for ten facilities worldwide including executing electrical and multi-discipline projects.

PJ married Denise in October 2015 and they have two daughters, Keegan (4) and Palmer (2).

CONTACT PJ KLEIN

Global Responsibilities for Environmental, Safety and Product Compliance for STM, Inc.
~25 years
Mark is a registered professional engineer and has been in the leadership role for STM in the areas of Environmental, Safety, and Product Compliance.  He has been with Shurtape since November 1996.

Founding member of the Unifour Air Quality Committee ~17 years
Chair of the Science and Technology Committee for the NC Manufacturer’s Alliance. ~15 years
Chair of the Regulatory Committee for the North American Pressure Sensitive Tape Council. ~ 18 years
Past President of the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association >20 years.
Committee Chair for the Lake James Ducks Unlimited Chapter
B.S. Biological and Agricultural Engineering, NCSU
Burke County
Married with four wonderful daughters

CONTACT MARK HAWES
mhawes@shurtape.com
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Ryan joined Clearwater Paper in April 2019 as the EHS Manager. He’s previously held Environmental, Health and Safety roles in Metal Recycling and Manufacturing, Aviation, Textile Manufacturing and Pulp and Paper. He graduated from Western Carolina University and has been in Western NC for all of his life. He is married to his high school sweetheart. They have two kids and three dogs. He loves to travel but after work most days you will find him outside playing with the kids, grilling or tinkering with his Jeep. He is active in his church and community and loves to relax with family and friends.

CONTACT RYAN BUMGARDNER

Amy Orders is a senior director in Environmental Health and Public Safety at NC State University.  With extensive experience in laboratory and campus safety, she employs practical strategies that extend creativity into health and safety programming, to manage beyond compliance and build long-standing partnerships.

Amy earned her doctorate from NC State University, maintains professional certifications in radiation safety and has earned numerous awards in health, safety and emergency management areas.   Amy is an adjunct professor in the College of Education at NC State, serves on international safety working groups and keeps pace with two highly energetic teenagers and two dogs!

CONTACT AMY ORDERS

Greg Lathan is the President of the EI Group, a full service occupational safety & health, industrial hygiene and environmental engineering consulting firm, with headquarters located in RTP, NC and branch offices strategically placed in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. EI’s client base includes private sector manufacturing, health care and commercial businesses. Prior to launching the EI Group in 1988, Greg was the EHS Director of General Electric Company’s Electrical Distribution and Control Division ED&C), with over 70 domestic and international manufacturing locations. Greg hold a BS Degree in Chemistry and MS in Public Health, both from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

CONTACT GREG LATHAN

With over 40 years of experience in facilities planning and engineering design for municipalities, state agencies, cultural institutions, and private clients, Draper Aden provides civil, environmental, geotechnical, solid waste, and structural engineering; surveying and subsurface utility engineering; site planning and engineering; and construction inspection services throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.  As Corporate Health and Safety Director, Mr. Butts provides health and safety leadership to ensure field team members have the tools necessary to identify hazards and safety training aimed at preventing injuries.  He also collaborates with customers to ensure field team members safely perform their work activities. Mr. Butts holds a Bachelors Degree in Building Construction Management from Michigan State University.

Mr. Barry Maxwell has 29 years of experience in developing and facilitating occupational safety programs for the fields of general industry, construction, education, and healthcare.  He has a Bachelor of Science in Production and Marketing Management and a Master of Science in Occupational Safety.

His professional specialties include inspection and evaluation of construction sites and industrial facilities for potential safety hazards, development of safety and occupational health programs, conducting safety training programs, and scaffolding and trenching inspections.

Some specific training experience includes: (1) develop, market, and present occupational safety & health programs to train personnel from the general industry, construction, and healthcare fields on any / all occupational safety topics, such as confined space, fall protection, trenching, scaffolding, respiratory protection, and cranes & rigging; (2) teaches the OSHA 10 / 30-hour Voluntary Compliance courses for General Industry and Construction since 1996; (3) taught an undergraduate safety class at East Carolina University.

Dale Overcash has 41 years of environmental experience principally dealing with air quality permitting and compliance issues.  Mr. Overcash has 27 years of environmental consulting experience and prior to that worked 14 years as a permit writer and manager in the North Carolina Division of Environmental Management, Air Quality and Water Quality Sections.

Mr. Overcash is currently employed with Trinity Consultants as a Principal Consultant and Office Manager of the Raleigh Office.  He serves as the senior technical lead for providing air quality permitting and compliance services to the industrial sector in NC and SC.

Mr. Overcash has served on the Board of Directors for Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association and was the CAPCA President in 2016.  He is currently the Dean of Air and serves on the Steering Committee for the EEHS school and is an active member of the Science and Technology Committee for the NCMA.

Mr. Overcash is a 1980 graduate of NC State University with a BS in Biological and Agricultural Engineering and is a registered PE in North and South Carolina.

Amy Marshall is ALL4’s Air Quality Practice Director and has over 25 years of experience in air quality permitting and compliance. She graduated from NC State University with a degree in chemical engineering and is a professional engineer. She provides strategic air quality regulatory support to industrial clients and also works with various industry associations to evaluate impacts and provide technical comments to EPA and state agencies on air quality policies and rules that impact industrial emissions sources.

Todd Roessler focuses his practice on a wide range of matters related to environmental transactions, regulatory counseling, and litigation. In particular, Mr. Roessler has extensive experience in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues, and in particular, coastal law and issues.

Mr. Roessler counsels clients relating to environmental aspects of a variety of transactions, including redevelopment of contaminated property, real estate development projects, asset deals, stock deals and lending transactions.

Mr. Roessler also counsels clients concerning environmental compliance matters, including determining whether the client’s operations or activities are subject to statutory and/or regulatory requirements under CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Water Act, and Clean Air Act, as well as state law counterparts.

Mr. Roessler has represented clients in a variety of litigation matters before federal courts, state courts and administrative tribunals, including matters involving the Coastal Zone Management Act, NEPA, cost recovery and contribution claims related to Superfund sites, management of hazardous waste under RCRA, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65).

Mr. Roessler frequently speaks at state and national conferences concerning ESG and coastal issues.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Roessler worked as a geologist at an environmental consulting firm focusing on groundwater investigation and remediation and resource development and management issues.

Mr. Roessler is listed in the 2021 and the seven immediately preceding editions of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for Environmental Law. He was named a North Carolina “Super Lawyer” for Environmental Law in 2021 by Super Lawyers magazine. Mr. Roessler has been recognized as a 2016 “Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina magazine in the area of Environmental Law.

Art Samberg is a Program Director at the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at NC State University.  He is also the Assistant Director for the US DOE Southeast Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership. Art specializes in Combined Heat and Power, renewable energy and industrial energy efficiency projects. He provides educational outreach and conducts technical and feasibility assessments to facilities that are considering deployment of clean power, renewable energy and/or energy efficiency upgrades, including CHP. Art has a Master’s Degree in meteorology and has spent most of his career providing air quality and environmental permitting and consulting services to the power generating and renewable energy industries.

Michelle Vinson is the Federal Regulatory Affairs Manager for Weyerhaeuser Company in Seattle, WA.

She joined Weyerhaeuser in 2013 as a Facility Environmental Manager for manufacturing operations in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, was promoted to Regional Environmental Manager for Weyerhaeuser operations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and began her current role in January 2021.  She began her work in environmental engineering and regulatory affairs at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) in 1997, where she was responsible for regulation development, compliance & enforcement and multi-media permitting for solid waste facilities.  She also worked with the MDEQ Executive Director to assist with the Natural Resources Damage Assessment work following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

Her work has always centered on ensuring responsible environmental compliance and management while supporting economic resiliency and growth.

She received her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Christian Brothers University in 1993, and Master’s in Engineering from Jackson State University in 2008.  She is a Professional Engineer and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer.

Mr. Walker has been providing environmental and safety consulting services to manufacturers for over 40 years.  He has assisted numerous industrial clients with multimedia permitting needs, including air quality permits.  In the past fifteen years, Mr. Walker has added sustainability credentials and projects to his resume.  As a Certified Energy Manager, he has conducted numerous energy conservation studies both for manufacturing operations and commercial buildings.  Mr. Walker is also a certified auditor for ISO 14001, 45001, and 50001, and has completed gap assessment and audit projects for various manufacturers along with developing a complete 14001/45001 program for a client’s London operation.

Mr. Walker has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master of Engineering degree from Clemson University.  He moved to North Carolina in 1985 and is southern by choice.

Aaron represents utilities, national trade associations, oil and gas companies, and manufacturers in major environmental litigation and regulatory matters across the country. His practice is focused on reducing and managing his client’s regulatory burdens and liabilities under federal environmental statutes and the Clean Air Act in particular.

Aaron has resolved complex regulatory matters before the EPA, at the White House, and through his extensive litigation experience before the federal courts. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a legal advisor to the US Congress and as an associate general counsel for the White House, where he was responsible for a broad portfolio of environmental matters, including Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act reform, helping to develop energy legislation, and responding to congressional investigations.  That experience allows Aaron to provide companies with insight and practical advice concerning a wide range of issues, particularly related to federal oversight, policies, and processes.

A recognized thought leader on visibility issues, Aaron has been called to testify before the US House of Representatives about implementation of the regional haze program and how it should be changed in the future.  In addition, he has litigated significant visibility rules before numerous federal courts of appeals, arguing most recently before the Ninth and DC Circuits.

Aaron’s climate change work has involved all of the major EPA rulemaking actions since the US Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. He has, for instance, guided clients through creative solutions to problems raised by EPA’s Endangerment Finding, its mobile source rules, and the Clean Power Plan for existing electric generating facilities. Aaron has advised companies in the oil and gas sector on compliance with greenhouse gas reporting requirements and their obligations under EPA’s methane rules.

Aaron’s practice extends to a number of other areas, including environmental permitting on Tribal lands, litigation in the DC Circuit over fuel regulation, and new source performance standards (NSPS) and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) regulations. He has advised an array of industries on national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), and has led successful efforts before the DC Circuit and the White House to protect clients from new, unprecedented standards.

CONTACT AARON FLYNN
aaronflynn@mcguirewoods.com
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Dixon represents businesses and institutions in a wide range of litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters, including toxic torts, water pollution, water allocation, environmental compliance and due diligence, defense of civil and criminal environmental enforcement actions, utility rate cases, brownfields agreements, commercial disputes, and professional malpractice.

His experience includes taking and defending expert and fact witness depositions, arguing motions, drafting successful dispositive motions, managing extensive discovery projects, and participating in trials in state court.  Dixon has also first-chaired a portion of a rate case relating to recovery of complex environmental costs for a large electric utility company and has guided strategy for other utilities seeking similar costs in rate cases.  He also has extensive experience preparing witnesses to testify before Grand Juries, courts, and utility commissions.

Before joining McGuireWoods LLP as an associate, Dixon was a summer associate and law clerk at the firm.  He also served as a summer clerk for Judge Henry E. Hudson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

He is an active member of both the North Carolina Bar Association and the Wake County Bar Association.  He also devotes time to the Greater Carolina’s Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, where he serves as a member of the Leaders Circle and is a Walk MS team captain.

An accomplished and knowledgeable environmental lawyer and litigator, Alex works efficiently to achieve clients’ goals in North Carolina and throughout the country. He provides strategic counsel on all manner of environmental, natural resources and land use matters, and represents clients in permitting and transactional matters as well as litigation before state and federal administrative tribunals, and trial and appellate courts. Alex often represents companies in the mining, timber, real estate, manufacturing, and waste management industry sectors, as well as municipal governments and individuals. Alex’s main area of practice includes working with clients on clean water act and other regulatory permitting, with a focus on complex wetland and water issues.

Alex focuses his practice on environmental, natural resources, and land use law.  He often appears before state and federal administrative, trial, and appellate courts. He has extensive experience counseling and representing clients in virtually all manner of environmental compliance, transactional, permitting and litigation matters. Examples of Alex’s work include: obtaining complex and contested Clean Water Act wetlands and discharge permits; counseling clients on a myriad of regulatory compliance and permitting matters under federal, state, and local requirements – including water, land, air, endangered species, hazardous waste, environmental assessment and remediation, etc.; counseling light and heavy industry and development clients on environmental, health and safety issues; and litigation involving permitting, government fines and penalties, and contaminated properties.

Alex is recognized by clients and peers as a leading environmental lawyer and litigator. This recognition includes listings in The Best Lawyers in America© (Environmental Law), Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” (Environmental Law) and North Carolina “Super Lawyers” (Environmental Litigation).

Craig Schauer is a litigator who counsels and advocates for clients. He has been fortunate to counsel clients through a wide variety of disputes and legal problems, ranging from business disagreements to constitutional lawsuits. He regularly advocates for clients in state courts, federal courts, appellate courts, arbitration proceedings, and regulatory hearings.

Craig has represented businesses of all sizes—from small partnerships to Fortune 100 corporations—in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and various regulatory agencies with disputes regarding contractual relationships, constitutional rights, class actions, unfair competition claims, government regulations, defamation, and other commercial issues. He has worked with clients in a variety of sectors, including healthcare, construction, professional sports, nonprofit, franchises, energy, financial services, public utilities, and local and state government.

Michael is a Technical Leader for Decarbonization and Sustainability in the Americas at AECOM. AECOM’s Decarbonization and Sustainability initiative is comprised of technical professionals across the company supporting clients with diverse service needs. Michael’s technical and policy expertise is in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventories, climate change mitigation strategies, carbon markets, and integrated sustainable solutions. At AECOM, Michael has guided numerous clients through compliance for GHG related regulations from agencies such as the California Air Resources Board and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He also works with organizations interested in voluntarily lowering their GHG emissions, targeting carbon neutrality, and procuring GHG offsets.

Frank represents Geosyntec Consultants with over 15 years of experience in environmental and geotechnical consulting, environmental health & safety, risk communication design and risk assessment, and academic research. He received his Bachelor degree in Environmental Science from Old Dominion University and continued his higher education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a Master of Science (2015) and Doctor of Philosophy (2019) in Risk Communication and Assessment. Some of his key achievements in that time include taking a small assessment opportunity on a Fortune 100 company site in Pennsylvania and expanding it into a successfully managed and well-executed $5M+ multisite facility upgrade project. Frank served as the Environmental Compliance Technical Lead for UNC for all $20MM-plus Capital Expenditures and smaller capital projects. Since moving to North Carolina in 2009, Frank has established strong working relationships with regulatory agencies, which has allowed him to collaborate to develop innovative approaches to meet project needs, particularly with NC Brownfields, environmental due diligence auditing and compliance, and coal ash pond risk assessment.

Dore Chiang serves as Wood’s Global Technical Leader for Environmental Remediation. She has had a long and successful career focusing on working collaboratively with industrial and governmental clients investigation and treating a wide range of organic and inorganic contaminants. She is known for developing innovative solutions that sustainably destroy legacy and emerging contaminant permanently, such as 1,4-dioxane biodegradation and PFAS destruction. She has served as project technical director for numerous clients including the U.S. Air Force, ExxonMobil, Total, BP, Lockheed Martin and many others.

Mr. Morris has 35+ years of geologic/hydrogeologic and litigation support and expert witness/expert report experience.  His technical specialties include hydrogeologic investigation using innovative site characterization tools, and creation of Hydrogeologic Site Conceptual Models (HCSM).  Mr. Morris has extensive experience in environmental forensics, statistical evaluation of groundwater monitoring data, and performing geochemical investigations.  In addition to hydrogeology and site characterization, he is a subject matter expert in the areas of CERCLA and State Superfund compliance, RCRA facility investigation, corrective action, remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS), risk-screening/risk-based decision making, and risk assessment (RA), remedial design/remedial action (RD/RA), brownfield redevelopment and site restoration planning, permitting, and coordination of redevelopment stakeholders.  Mr. Morris is also a subject matter expert in the strategic evaluation of remedial solutions and has been directly involved in analysis and/or implementation of numerous remedial technologies including SVE, injection of additives for aerobic and anaerobic enhanced in-situ bioremediation (EISB), phytoremediation, in-situ chemical oxidation (ISCO), injection of reagents for stabilization/fixation of metals, and construction of Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs). Lastly, Mr. Morris is experienced in preparing remediation liability financial forecasts (Sarbanes-Oxley environmental liability financial reserve estimates), and maintaining project life-cycle financial/cost forecasts.

Ryan Trail is a partner in the Environmental & Natural Resources practice group of Williams Mullen.  Mr. Trail represents companies facing complex environmental regulatory issues in the industrial, manufacturing, real estate and banking industries. He helps companies maintain compliance with constantly evolving environmental laws and regulations, and he counsels landowners, potential purchasers and lenders on environmental liabilities related to contaminated real estate. Ryan also helps clients obtain and comply with numerous environmental permits, including industrial wastewater discharge permits, stormwater permits and air permits.

Ryan counsels clients on matters involving the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund). He also advises industrial clients on chemical reporting requirements featured in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Ryan frequently advises clients on matters involving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC).

He has been recognized in Greenville Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite of the Upstate” for Environmental Law (2014, 2019, 2021) and “Legal Elite of the Midlands” for Environmental Law (2020).  Ryan serves on the Greenville Chamber of Commerce’s Environmental Issues Committee and is involved with business-related trade associations throughout South Carolina, including the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, the Upstate Employers Network and the Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association.

Ryan earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2008. He graduated with his B.A. in History from Presbyterian College in 2004.

Lindsay Boone is a Technical Program Manager at Enthalpy’s Ultratrace Lab specializing in PFAS analysis.  She received her Master’s in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.  Lindsay has worked extensively with Waste Water Treatment Plants throughout the state of North Carolina on both sampling techniques and date interpretation for PFAS compounds within their influent and effluent samples.

Dr. Bilgen Yuncu is a project manager and remediation group leader at Draper Aden Associates in the Cary, NC office. She specializes in the application of physico-chemical treatment processes and bioremediation of hazardous compounds in soil and groundwater. Dr, Yuncu is the lead engineer on many of Draper Aden Associates’ in situ bioremediation projects. She is an author of several publications and an active presenter of in situ remediation technologies at national and international conferences.

Maria Scicchitano has 5 years of experience in wastewater treatment design and industrial discharge permitting. Her primary areas of practice are in industrial and municipal wastewater process evaluation and optimization, biological treatment system design, and industrial pretreatment permitting and compliance reporting. Maria recently completed her Master’s in Environmental Engineer at N.C. State with a focus in physical-chemical and biological treatment processes.

Mr. Verheul is a Senior Chemist and the Business Development Manager of Enthalpy Analytical’s South Richmond, Virginia, Laboratory location. He has more than 17 years of analytical experience within the environmental industry, and has led various laboratory teams in the wet chemistries and metals analysis departments. Mr. Verheul has also served as lead Project Manager for various complex projects across a range of disciplines; this includes the energy sector, solid waste industry, industrial and municipal wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment, biogas reclamation, and others. Mr. Verheul received his B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary.