Empower Environmental Development, LLC

Developing Environmental Businesses

Empowering Your Environmental Business!

35+ years of industrial environmental expertise: regulatory, treatment, information systems, and brand culture are delivered as a trusted fractional partner for companies that need more than a consultant.

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Four Disciplines.
One Integrated Practice

Every engagement is scoped to what your organization actually needs, not a pre-packaged deliverable.

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Regulatory

Decades of hands-on RCRA, Clean Water Act, and state-level regulatory navigation. Compliance built into how your operation runs, not bolted on top.

  • RCRA Part B permit support & compliance audits
  • Safety training, OSHA 300 reporting & vetting application curation
  • Regulatory gap analysis & corrective action
  • Agency relationship & inspection preparation
  • Waste characterization & classification support
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Treatment

Practical treatment knowledge grounded in real operational experience: wastewater systems, chemistry optimization, and residuals management.

  • Wastewater treatment system evaluation
  • Industrial pretreatment program development
  • Treatment chemistry optimization (used oil/water)
  • Waste minimization & beneficial reuse strategy
  • TSDF resource alignment & logistics coordination
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MIS / Enterprise / WAP

Information is the bloodstream of any environmental operation. Modernize how data moves: waste approvals, manifest tracking, customer portals, reporting.

  • Waste Analysis Plan (WAP) design, optimization & automation
  • Environmental management system evaluation
  • Operational data flow mapping & improvement
  • ERP / software selection for environmental firms
  • Customer-facing digital experience development
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Culture & Brand

Brand identity isn't a logo, it's the living expression of how your organization thinks, behaves, and is perceived. Align internal culture with the story you tell the market.

  • Brand identity development & refresh
  • Internal culture assessment & alignment
  • Market perception & positioning analysis
  • Employee experience & team cohesion programs
  • Website, collateral & communications strategy
35+
Years of Industry Experience
7
Major Env. Organizations Served
4
Core Service Disciplines
1
Trusted Fractional Partner
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Environmental expertise that goes beyond the report

"What pins your needle? Where is there regulatory pressure? How's the brand looking?"
Let's Find Out Together →

Empower Environmental Development was founded on a simple premise: environmental companies deserve a partner who understands their world from the inside out. Not a generalist consultant hired to write a report, but a seasoned practitioner who has managed RCRA-permitted TSDFs, navigated industrial pretreatment programs, built operational teams, and rebuilt brands from the culture up.

The industrial environmental sector has changed. Consolidation has stretched leadership thin. Regulatory requirements have intensified. Finding and keeping people who understand both compliance and culture is harder than ever. Many companies are doing more with less, and what they need is someone who has already done exactly that, at scale, across multiple organizations.

That's the Empower model. Whether the engagement is regulatory, operational, organizational, or brand-driven, every recommendation comes from a place of genuine, hands-on understanding of what it takes to run an environmental business the right way.

[ Additional background on the Empower story — coming soon. ]

One illuminated idea
among the crowd:
Yours, switched on

Just as the accounting world discovered the power of the fractional CFO, the environmental industry is recognizing the same need. Many owner-operators and mid-size firms need senior-level environmental leadership, but not the overhead of a full-time executive. Empower's fractional model gives you access to 35+ years of cross-disciplinary experience, engaged at exactly the level your business requires.

Delegate to free up your timeExperienced hands carry the compliance and operational load so you focus on running the business.
A trusted second opinionAn outside perspective rooted in decades of real-world environmental operations, not theoretical advice.
Get outside the box / InnovateFresh eyes on old problems. Strategic thinking drawn from experience across multiple organizations.
Reform, boost & repair market perceptionCulture, compliance, brand perception, operational efficiency: Empower helps you get there.
Explore the Fractional Model →

Built in the industry, not beside it

35+ years of direct experience managing, building, and transforming environmental operations, spanning hazardous waste treatment & disposal, transportation, wastewater, and environmental services leadership across multiple organizations.

Every engagement draws on firsthand knowledge of what it's actually like to run a RCRA-permitted TSDF, build an environmental services brand, and navigate the regulatory, operational, and human challenges that define this industry.

RCRA / TSDF Operations Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment Hazardous Waste Management Waste Brokerage EH&S Leadership Regulatory Compliance Environmental Services Sales Brand & Culture Development Team Building
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Clark Processing / Perma-Fix
Used oil recycling, hazardous waste Part B, wastewater treatment
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Select Transport
Hazardous waste logistics
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EnviroSafe
Inorganic treatment / subtitle C landfill
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Pollution Control / Tradebe
Organic/solvent recycling & disposal
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Innergreen
Project management on large scale
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Clean Water Environmental
Robust wastewater treatment services & hazardous waste Part B
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Valicor
Corporate integration and management of transitional cultures

It starts with the right questions

Before any engagement, Empower listens. The most important thing isn't what we know, it's understanding what's happening in your world right now. These are the questions that open every conversation.

  • ? What pins your needle?
  • ? Where is there regulatory pressure?
  • ? How's the brand looking?
  • ? Is everyone happy working here, on the same page?
  • ? How well does information flow?
  • ? Do customers find it easy to work with you... or hard?
  • ? What does expansion look like?
Start the Conversation →
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Better Customer Experience
Clients that find it easy — not hard — to work with your organization.
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Better Team Experience
Employees who understand the mission and are aligned around it.
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Compliance as Culture
Regulatory adherence built into how you work: not bolted on after the fact.
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Community Protection
Keeping communities safe and free of pollution — the whole reason we're here.
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Better Information Flow
Data and decisions that move the way modern operations demand.
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Business Expansion
A stable, well-run operation is the platform for sustainable growth.
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Empowering Your Environmental Business!
Regulatory · Treatment · MIS/Enterprise/WAP · Culture/Brand

Ready to talk about what pins your needle?

Every engagement starts with a conversation. No sales pitch, just an honest discussion about where your business is and where you want it to go.

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PrincipalMitch George
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General Inquiriescontact@empowerenvdev.com
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Office716 Xenia Ave.
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387