Each year Environmental Business Journal recognizes outstanding business performance in the environmental industry with our EBJ Business Achievement Awards. Environmental Business Journal is proud to announce its 18th annual business achievement awards. Congratulations to the winners, thanks to all the companies that submitted nominations, and we hope to see you in San Diego for the official awards ceremony at Environmental Industry Summit XIV on March 9, 2016 at Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.

In October-December 2015, EBJ solicited the environmental industry via e-mail, social media, its website, industry events and word-of-mouth for nominations for the EBJ Business Achievement Awards. Nominations were accepted in 200-word essays in either specific or unspecified categories. Categories or size designations may have been adjusted depending on the volume of nominations or the number of worthy recipients. Final awards were determined by a committee of EBJ staff and EBJ editorial advisory board members.

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Together, they work to bring a well into compliance (Natural Outlook, March 2015)

The Boy Scout Oath begins, “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country.” Rick Denison and Bob Oatman, with the Capitol Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, learned that their country, or at least their state, had some rules they needed to follow.

In 2013, the council bought the 91-acre Smilin’ V Ranch, outside of Liberty Hill, as a facility for day camps and training. It was during one of these training sessions that Denison and Oatman discovered that they might have a problem.

Therese Baer, P.E., a volunteer with both the Boy Scouts and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s EnviroMentor program, pointed out that in the eyes of the state, the council was operating a public drinking-water system at the camp. That was quite a surprise to Oatman, who handles maintenance for the ranch. READ MORE