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Corporate Environmental Advisors opens new downtown office at 200 Portland St.

Boston, MA Corporate Environmental Advisors (CEA) has opened a downtown office at 200 Portland St. to support the expansion of its environmental risk management (ERM) practice led by new hire Stephen Graham, PE, LSP, a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience who is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) National Environmental Committee and an advisory member of the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) New England Chapter board of directors. 

Five additional senior personnel have joined CEA to support the firm’s rapidly growing environmental due diligence and related ERM offerings primarily serving commercial real estate (CRE) clients and industrial facilities.

Joining Graham are Dr. Robert Palermo, PE, CSP, RPIH; Richard Kowalski, CPG, LSP, CHMM; and Stephen Miller, MS, each with 30 or more years of experience in the environmental compliance, building decommissioning, and remediation of soil, groundwater, air, and sediment sites for Fortune 500 industries, CRE clients, biopharmaceuticals, hospitals and universities, and government. 

Representative local clients have included a variety of small to large CRE owners, developers, and attorneys, as well as some of the most prominent Superfund/RCRA, nuclear, and state-regulated sites in the region. 

Also just hired at CEA are two other senior professionals. Aaron Ting, PE now in the Westborough office, brings 11 years of experience in leading engineering evaluation, design, and construction management projects for complex Fortune 500 industrial and CRE projects throughout New England and the US, administered under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, other state regulations, and federal RCRA and TSCA regulatory programs. Joseph Drebaum, MA, joins CEA’s Portsmouth, NH office with 16 years of experience in solving field investigation and remediation challenges arising from hazardous and solid waste impacts to industrial, CRE, and government sites throughout the US. 

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