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Entering environmental consulting is exciting—and demanding. New professionals quickly find themselves balancing fieldwork, regulatory requirements, tight deadlines, and high client expectations, particularly in areas like environmental due diligence and brownfield redevelopment. As a company that provides environmental training programs, we work with consulting firms every day, and one message consistently resonates with early-career staff: technical skills will get you hire

With the 2025 National Brownfield Training Conference fresh in my mind, and while working on some brownfield projects myself, I’ve been thinking about how local governments and environmental consultants can successfully redevelop brownfields together.  Brownfield sites—properties complicated by real or perceived contamination—represent both a challenge and an opportunity for communities. For local governments , they’re a chance to transform blighted land into economic engines

Last week, the National Brownfields Training Conference (NBTC 2025) brought together over 2,000 professionals from across the...

EnviroLearn will be an exhibitor and sponsor at the 2025 National Brownfields Training Conference in Chicago, August 5-7, and as I’ve...

I was recently reviewing a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) and reflecting on how dramatically the process has evolved since...

With advances in technology, changing policy and regulations, and the growing need for sustainable development, the environmental...

As I plan my professional event calendar for 2025, I reviewed the events I attended over the past few years, and a few stood out. In...

EnviroLearn has published a new course, and that has us thinking about how maps help us as environmental consultants!

At EnviroLearn we often talk to professionals just starting in the environmental consulting field. I love sharing the details of my...

On my first day on the job as an environmental consultant, my boss brought me the current ASTM Phase I ESA standard and a stack of Phase...