Steven Eget, PE, CEM Dewberry Environmental Group Manager Parsippany, NJ

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1 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS, and Sustainability Steven Eget, PE, CEM Dewberry Environmental Group Manager Parsippany, NJ

2 High Sustainability firms outperformed Low Sustainability ones in the long term. -The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance 2 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

3 Evolution Environmental Compliance ISO Standard Issued Sustainability ISO 9001 Standard Revised Release of An Inconvenient Truth 3 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

4 What is Environmental Compliance? 4 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

5 What are Environmental Management Systems? 5 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

6 What is Sustainability? Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. - Brundtland Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development (1992) 6 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

7 Sustainability EMS Environmental Compliance 7 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

8 Data from 8 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

9 Questions for Transit Industry How does the industry rate their environmental compliance programs? What are the industry implementation rates of EMS and ISO certification? What are the industry implementation rates for sustainability programs? How integrated are environmental compliance and sustainability programs? 9 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

10 Survey Results on Environmental Compliance Program Rate your organizations environmental compliance program (Avg / 5) Rate your organizations response to new compliance requirements (Avg / 5) 10 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

11 What are the most pressing environmental compliance issues your organization is currently facing? Hazardous Waste (Soil/Groundwater Contamination) Wastewater Underground Storage Tanks Solid Waste Stormwater Discharges /MS4 Hazardous Waste (Asbestos/Lead Based Paint/PCBs) 11 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

12 Does your organization have an environmental management system(s)? No 1 If yes, certified to ISO 14001? No 4 Yes 3 Yes 6 12 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

13 If you have a sustainability program, aspects does it address? (check all that apply) Waste Minimization 3 7 Energy Usage Greenhouse Gas Emissions 7 Social Equity 2 4 Other 5 Water Usage 13 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

14 Survey Results (continued) All organization surveyed have sustainability programs Believe ROI very important factor for implementing sustainability projects (Avg / 5) Believe PR is a very important factor for implementing sustainability projects (Avg / 5) 14 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

15 If your organization has a sustainability program, are the environmental compliance responsibilities and sustainability programs in the same department? No 1 Yes 6 17 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

16 Findings Transit organizations value sustainability Most also value benefits of developing EMS Environmental and sustainability departments integrated Transit organizations with sustainability programs have good/very good compliance programs 16 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

17 If You Want to Contribute All results will be anonymous and shared with respondents 17 Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS and Sustainability

18 Contact Info Steven Eget, PE, CEM Work Phone: