Environmental and Economic Policy, Planning, and Protection
Come and join The E.P. Systems Group and its President, Peter Meyer, at the 2013 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference in Washington DC!
The conference, a project of the BlueGreen Alliance and an array of labor and environmental groups, with active participation by local government and community-based organizations, as well as members of the Obama Administration, [...]
EPSG, acting on behalf of the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation in Louisville, KY, completed review of the final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision submitted by the Federal Highway Administration and the Kentucky and Indiana state transportation offices in support of a plan to build two new Interstate-grade bridges across the [...]
EPA’s national brownfields conference is coming to Atlanta, GA, May 15-17. This 15th National Brownfields Conference will include two and a half days of networking and educational programming. This year the conference features more than 100 educational sessions, including lively panel discussions, engaging town hall meetings, dynamic roundtable discussions, outstanding plenary sessions, special trainings, film [...]
Peter B. Meyer, Phd, President of The E.P. Systems Group, Inc,, recently returned from a series of assignments in Europe. He worked on projects supported by the European Union and the United Kingdom and spoke at an international confer3ence on contaminated land in Poland.
Dr. Meyer first spent 10 days working on innovative solutions to scarcity [...]
The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area in Alabama is making decisions about whether or not to invest in a 52-mile highway spur that is budgeted at $4.7 Billion. The state and local contribution required to match the federal funds amounts to roughly the entire annual budget of the state’s Department of Transportation. The project was being [...]
In Fall, 2011, the EPA issued a new Handbook providing recommendations for economic analysis of land cleanup and reuse activities and programs. These activities pose significant measurement problems associated with such unique qualities as the diversity of contaminants and affected media across sites, market pricing problems such as stigma, and the impacts of significant events [...]
In a period of extended unemployment and slow economic growth, many localities and states are struggling to attract new investment in hopes of stimulating their economies. To help economic development organizations determine where to spend their limited stimulus resources, The E.P. Systems Group offers services to determine the job, payroll, gross income and tax revenue [...]
August, 2011 — The E.P. Systems Group recently completed work identifying debt financing options for a well-established recycler looking to finance a new product line taking advantage of its raw materials flow and the demand for recycled materials from many in the construction industry.
In addition to providing financial management technical assistance to state and local recipients of formula grants from the US Department of Energy, E.P. Systems Group staff are supporting several recipients of special competitive DOE grants for creative retrofitting of existing buildings for more energy efficient operations. We support financial leveraging efforts of both grantees and [...]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA or the stimulus act) provided funds to states under the State Energy Program (SEP) and directly to localities in the form of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants (EECBGs).
The E.P. Systems Group, Inc., is proud to be a member of the Technical Assistance team that will [...]