Environmental Forensics deals with questions that surround contamination:
- Whose contamination is it?
- How much did different parties contribute?
- When did the release occur?
- How did the release occur?
These are questions that typically arise in allocation disputes between potentially responsible parties (PRPs), or between PRPs and their insurers. The “detective work”that goes into answering these questions relies on historical and current documents and data. Exponent provides a full range of environmental forensics services to attorneys and industry, serving as both testifying and consulting experts. Exponent scientists have extensive practical project experience in designing programs, providing and interpreting data, and reviewing the documents and related information required to answer our clients’ environmental forensics questions. The project experience of Exponent scientists has included work on oil spills, chemical contaminant forensics (petroleum hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons [PAHs], dioxins, metals, pesticides, product additives), hydrogeology transport and fate modeling, cost allocation, process forensics, and industrial archaeology.
Our services include:
- Forensics strategies
- Chemical contaminant forensics (PAHs, hydrocarbons, PCBs, dioxins, metals)
- Forensic site geology and hydrology
- Transport and fate modeling
- Release, dose, and exposure reconstruction
- Statistical liability allocation modeling
- Industrial archaeology
- Cost allocation modeling and strategies
- Natural resource damage allocation assistance
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