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Sustaining Environmental Compliance: Evolution/Intersection of Compliance, EMS, and Sustainability
Steven Eget, PE, CEM
Dewberry
Environmental Group Manager
Parsippany, NJ
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High Sustainability firms outperformed Low
Sustainability ones in the long term.
-The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
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Environmental Compliance
Release of An Inconvenient Truth
Sustainability
Evolution
ISO 9001 Standard Revised
ISO 14001 Standard Issued
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What is Environmental Compliance?
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What are Environmental Management
Systems?
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Development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.
What is Sustainability?
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- Brundtland Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development (1992)
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Environmental Compliance
EMS
Sustainability
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Data from
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• How does the industry rate their environmental compliance
programs?
• What are the industry implementation rates of EMS and ISO 14001
certification?
• What are the industry implementation rates for sustainability
programs?
• How integrated are environmental compliance and sustainability
programs?
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Questions for Transit Industry
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• Rate your organizations environmental
compliance program (Avg. 4.29 / 5)
• Rate your organizations response to new
compliance requirements
(Avg. 4.29 / 5)
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Survey Results on Environmental
Compliance Program
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What are the most pressing environmental compliance
issues your organization is currently facing?
Hazardous Waste
(Asbestos/Lead
Based Paint/PCBs)
Solid Waste
StormwaterDischarges/MS4
Wastewater
Underground Storage Tanks
Hazardous Waste
(Soil/Groundwater
Contamination)
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Yes6
No1
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Does your organization have an environmental
management system(s)?
Yes3
No4
If yes, certified to ISO 14001?
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5
4
2
7
3
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If you have a sustainability program, aspects does it
address? (check all that apply)
Water Usage
Social Equity
Other
Energy Usage
Waste Minimization
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
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• All organization surveyed have
sustainability programs
• Believe ROI very important factor for
implementing sustainability projects
(Avg. 4.43 / 5)
• Believe PR is a very important factor for
implementing sustainability projects
(Avg. 4.29 / 5)
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Survey Results (continued)
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If your organization has a sustainability program, are the
environmental compliance responsibilities and sustainability
programs in the same department?
Yes6
No1
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• 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
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Findings
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• https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LQH53Y3
• All results will be anonymous and shared with respondents
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