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Wendy Moyer
Over the past several decades things that are related to the environment have become a very big business. According to a report in the Environmental Business Journal total revenues for the environmental industry were in excess of $300 billion in 2009. Environmental issues have become such a top priority in the eyes of so many people around the world (as well as their representatives in government) that environmental consulting and remediation has become a $30 billion a year business. However, although this field potentially very lucrative, there is a lot of competition. And the competition is fierce. Today there are approximately 9,000 companies that provide environmental consulting services. They range in size from small "mom and pop" businesses to huge global corporations. If you've been involved with this market for any length of time you know that one of the realities of this this industry is that clients frequently change their consultants. So, if you were to compare a list from ten years ago that had the names of the leading environmental consulting companies with a list of today's leaders you probably wouldn't be surprised to see that it is very different. Sometimes the clients are the ones who initiate the action to change. But other times clients are forced to change environmental consulting companies because the company that has been advising them has gone out of business or has been acquired by - or merged with - another company. If you're familiar with the environmental consulting business then you probably know the names of a lot of the top environmental consultants who you'll probably only find in today's history books. Here are just some of the companies whose advice and expertise had been much sought after in the past: AWD, Canonie Environmental Services, Dames and Moore, Environmental Consultants, Harding , IT, Lawson, Morrison-Knudsen, OHM, Radian, Rust, Smith Technology Corporation and Woodward Clyde. At their peak, the majority of these companies were on the Environmental Business Journal Top 100. Now they are just a memory. In October 2009 Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) reported that twenty three of the top forty environmental companies - 58% - had either disappeared or gone bankrupt over the past twelve years. Of the seventeen that were still around, only seven - 18% - remained the same. The other ten had gone through a major change of ownership. Because the environmental consultants capture an enormous amount of information and data that's involved with the project and then store it they are vital to the process. So, if you or your company is in need of environmental consultants it is extremely important to know the current leaders in the field.
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