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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations can be time consuming to correct, expensive, and bring a negative light to a company’s overall reputation. Repeat violations, or willful or knowing violations, can further compound these issues exponentially. Both agencies view repeat violations as a company’s indifference to environment and safety regulations in general and can put you in a high risk category. In fact, EPA and OSHA have a...

December 1991 – After expanding services outside of the state of Indiana, Geoff and Bryan decided to change the company name from Hoosier Environmental Services, Inc. to August Mack Environmental, Inc. after their grandfathers, Grandpa Augie and Grandpa Mack.

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December 1990 – Hoosier Environmental offered employees a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan for the first time in company history

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August Mack’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic was established in 1994 with the opening of a Baltimore office. Then in 1998, Susan Burkett opened the office in southeast Pennsylvania to better serve the growing client base in Pennsylvania. Susan continues to serve clients in a corporate capacity as Principal Engineer for August Mack’s eCAP® Services. In its infancy, the Pennsylvania office provided environmental, health and safety compliance services to foundries, food companies, and metal products...

Universal wastes are specific hazardous waste streams that a generator can choose to manage in an alternative manner in place of more complex hazardous waste requirements as defined in Ohio Administrative Code (OAC) Chapter 3745-273. The regulations outline the applicability of the standards with regards to batteries, pesticides, mercury-containing equipment, and lamps... Read More

November 1990 – Geoff and Bryan purchased the remainder of company shares and became the sole owners of Hoosier Environmental.

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Hoosier Environmental supported its first United Way campaign, a tradition that has continued every year since.

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Environmental booked 87 projects for 44 clients with Geoff and Bryan managing them all. A variety of projects included expert witness testimony, facility decontamination, and underground tank testing and removal.

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June 1, 1988 – Hoosier Environmental officially opened for business at 550 Congressional Boulevard in Carmel, Indiana. Around this time the existing mission statement was created that continues to guide the company today.

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March 9, 1988 – The company was incorporated as Hoosier Environmental Services, Inc. as a women-owned business. The company was originally owned by Dianne Farmer, Debbie Farmer, Charlie Farmer, Geoff Glanders, Karen Glanders, and Bryan Petriko.

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March of 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a revision to the Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) standard (Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1910.1200) which incorporated the requirements of the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).  One of the changes in the revised HAZCOM standard is that material safety data sheets (MSDSs) are no longer required.  Instead, the employer is required to maintain safety data...

It’s nice (and necessary) to “take a breather” from time to time, but we take for granted that the air we breathe at work, at home, and at school is healthy for us. But what if it was not? Does soil and groundwater contamination from a nearby gas station, drycleaners, or industrial facility pose a potential hazard to the air we breathe? The answer, unfortunately, may be yes. The good news, however, is that new and updated guidance is available to evaluate this potential health risk. 

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We are excited to announce that Nick Campbell is the lucky winner of August Mack's Bracket Challenge!  Nick will receive a brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2!  To claim the prize, please contact Michelle Fink at 317-916-3116, otherwise we will be contacting you within the next week.

A big thanks goes out to all of our players and all of the clients that have helped to make the last 25 years at August Mack successful! We look forward to the next 25 years!

I cannot imagine anyone living in Pennsylvania or elsewhere in the United States who has not heard of the Marcellus Shale formation and what it means to the supply of natural gas and energy resources for our country. The most recent statistic I heard was that we will have enough natural gas for the next 100 years from the Marcellus Shale. You may even have seen some of the television spots highlighting concerns related to potential environmental issues in extracting this natural gas or read...

Traditional Environmental Due Diligence typically consists of a Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA). The goal of the Phase I/II ESA is to identify and quantify environmental liabilities associated with real estate. August Mack typically represents buyers and their lenders during the environmental due diligence process and the Phase I/II ESA findings are often used by our clients to help them understand what is going on with the property. However, it is important to note that...

This newsletter article will cover Steps 2 (Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry) and Steps 3 (Due Diligence and the Conflict Minerals Report) of Conflict Minerals Reporting. For more information on Step 1 (Applicability Determination), please refer to the October August Mack newsletter.

Step 2: Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry
Companies that are covered by the SEC conflict minerals reporting rule, must conduct a “reasonable country of origin inquiry” (RCOI). To satisfy this requirement, a...

On November 13, 2012, a new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule comes into force that requires certain companies to publically disclose their use and supply chain activities for four “conflict minerals”- tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold. Since these four conflict minerals have a wide variety of industrial uses, this rule has the potential to affect a large number of companies, even private companies that don’t file SEC reports. The final rule contains a three step test to determine...

Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard (29 CFR 1910.147) that provides all of the requirements for the isolation of hazardous energy for industrial and research facilities. According to OSHA, an estimated 120 fatal accidents and 50,000 injuries are avoided each year because employers implement and enforce comprehensive LOTO programs. For those individuals who do sustain injuries from exposure to hazardous energy, an average of 24 days of...

Historically, the use of Institutional Controls (ICs) was associated with large, complex sites involved in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleanup programs, such as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action and Superfund.  The ICs were commonly used in conjunction with removal actions, soil and groundwater remediation, and risk assessment to reduce potential for exposures over the long-term.  However, there has been increasing use of Institutional Controls in...

Under the Clean Air Act, the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) were established with the purpose of reducing Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) harmful to public health by regulating specific groups of sources. The level of control required from those sources is known as the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standard. While some standards apply only to large major sources of HAPs, the MACT standard for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE),...