Clients

Practice Areas:

Energy & Environment

A sampling of this practice area's clients. Check back where we will link some of those listed below to client case studies.

Albany Engineering
Atlantic Energy
Daystar Technologies
Direct Energy
DTE Energy
Energy Association of NYS
GE Power Systems
Glenville Energy Park
GE Global Research
Green Island Power Authority
Besicorp-Empire Development
Plug Power
Internagmetics General Corp. (IGC)
Massena Power Company
MTI Micro Fuels Cells
Mercer Companies
Mechanicville Hydro/Fourth Branch
Long Island Power Authority
New York Independent System Operator
New Energy, New York
NYS Energy Redevelopment Authority
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Ogden Projects
PPL Corp.
SatCon Technology Corp.
SEMASS,/Energy Answer Corp.
SkyGen Corp.
Selkirk Co-Gen
Stuyvesant Falls Hydro

Among environmental projects we have handled are:

Developed an awareness campaign, including media relations, community outreach, communications training, message development, website and other services related to the LaFarge-Blue Circle Cement merger and introduction of a state-mandated environmental performance plan.
Created a special Risk Management Program (RMP) for six regional chemical companies (GE Plastics, BASF, Surpass Chemicals, Nycomed Amersham, GE Power Systems, Schenectady International) in advance of a new EPA ruling on reporting procedures. See case study.
Developed and implemented community and media relations plan for GE Power Systems as they began brownfields clean-up programs on its main plant site in the City of Schenectady.
Developed and implemented a community and media relations plan for the City of Schenectady as it undertook a Phase II brownfields clean-up and redevelopment project under U.S. EPA's pilot project for urban brownfields redevelopment.
Developed and implemented a community relations and public affairs plan for Nepera, Inc., an Orange County, NY-based chemical manufacturer, seeking renewed local and state permits during a time of public confidence issues. Provided crisis management counsel and on-site support during several industrial accidents at the facility.
Provided communications counsel, media relations, community support and issues monitoring for GM's Central Foundry Division, related to a Superfund site in Massena, N.Y. involving PCBs and the St. Lawrence River.
Provided public affairs counsel for a hazardous dump site remediation project for Sterling Organics, Rensselaer, N.Y. We have coordinated communications and local government contact; worked with state and local governments, e.g., NYS DEC; arranged a press briefing with DEC Commissioner Thomas Jorling in which he praised Sterling Drug and characterized the company as a good corporate citizen for the way it handled the remediation; monitor media and local reaction; and maintained contact with Sterling corporate communications about the situation.
Provided public relations counsel, including the development of a community awareness plan, for an Ogdensburg, N.Y. manufacturer of magnetic ferrite powders related to its consent order with the New York State Attorney General and subsequent environmental clean-up activities.
Provided crisis communications counsel, media relations andﾠ employee and community awareness efforts concerning asbestos use in manufacturing for Allied-Signal's Friction Materials facility in Green Island, N.Y. Also for Allied-Signal, media and political monitoring, and communications counsel related to remediation of Onondaga Lake.
Developed a community awareness plan, resulting from a consent order from the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, and other public relations counsel for a large, Dallas-based company with a lead refining operation in Orange County, N.Y.
Provided media relations, government relations and internal corporation communications counsel for the Owens-Corning facility in Delmar, N.Y. that was under a consent order from NYS DEC concerning reporting procedures for chemical use.
Organized a response to the NYS Attorney General about concerns over the recyclability of aseptic packaging containers (juice boxes), and creating in the Albany city schools a pilot program to recycle the containers, on behalf of the Aseptic Packaging Council and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Provided a variety of SARA Title III communications programs including Community Right-to-Know briefings and materials for GE Plastics in Selkirk, N.Y. Also, arranging joint projects between GE Selkirk and the Audobon Society of New York State.
Provided media relations consultation, community and local government consultation and issues development for Ogden Projects Inc. concerning a waste-to-energy facility at the Port of Albany.
Conducted media training on environmental issues for site managers, and other communications consultation, for Montreal-based St. Lawrence Cement (Independent Cement Corp. in the U.S.).
Helped to promote recycling, forest management and other issues for the American Forest & Paper Association and its New York members (International Paper, Champion, Georgia-Pacific, etc.), including coalition-building and joint message development with the Nature Conservancy and the Empire State Forest Products Association.