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Why Water is the Critical Path for Critical Minerals
How early water planning can help critical minerals projects advance responsibly, build resilience and earn lasting support
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New guide
The Environmental Strategy Maturity Curve
A practical roadmap to move from reactive compliance to proactive environmental leadership
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California El Niño: Regulatory Guidance for Emergency Stream and Channel Work
Prepare for California El Niño impacts with guidance on emergency stream and channel work, regulatory coordination, documentation and response planning.
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Building Environmental Certainty Before Shovels Hit the Ground
Speed will strengthen reliability and flexibility will drive long-term advantage
Critical Thinking in Data Validation: How Small Errors Can Have Big Impacts
Critical thinking and professional judgment help uncover small data issues before they become costly project risks
CERCLA Liability Exemptions for Brownfield Buyers
Learn which CERCLA liability exemptions and defenses may apply to brownfield owners, and why due diligence, AAI and documentation still matter.
Air Permitting for Data Centers: What Determines Your Timeline
How location, power generation and the regulatory landscape affect data center air permits
California AB 28 Becomes Law: What Landfill Operators Need to Prepare for
Careful remediation, selective demolition and funding alignment kept a historic façade intact while accelerating the Town’s path to flexible, community-serving space.
When Landfills Run Hot: Why Leachate Strategy Matters
Learn how elevated temperature landfills can change leachate chemistry, treatment needs and costs and why early characterization and contingency planning matter.
Protect Data Integrity with Historical Review
Reveal contamination, sample switches and other errors that compliant laboratory data may still miss
OUR PROJECTS
Explore the work behind the impact
Learn how Onterris brings systems thinking to the field, delivering solutions that protect air, water and soil
Perspectives
Rethinking Emissions Monitoring as a Tool for Operational Assurance
Temp CEMS and FTIR: A practical example of how chemical manufacturers can turn emissions data into faster, more informed decisions.
Landfill Gas Is the Ultimate Test of Environmental Maturity
Elevated landfill methane emissions can signal more than a gas problem. Learn how operators can connect methane data with liquids, cover and site operations.
Your Bottling Plant Measures Almost Everything. Why Not CO2 Loss?
Tracking carbon dioxide (CO₂) loss helps plants reduce emissions, prioritize repairs and protect margins
How Ambient Air Monitoring Provides Context and Transparency for Data Centers
Ambient air monitoring helps data center developers establish pre-construction air quality baselines, track changing conditions and contribute to greater environmental transparency throughout the project lifecycle
“Just-in-Time” Compliance: The Hidden Risk Building in Legacy Environmental Programs
Teams in asset-intensive industries now need to recognize indicators of operational risk long before compliance brings them into view
Why the AFFF Transition Is Becoming a Major Engineering and Liability Test
As fluorine-free foam becomes the industry standard, facility operators are finding that the real challenge is not choosing a replacement, but addressing what legacy systems reveal during the transition.
Why Consistent Implementation Is the Real Test of Disaster Recovery Policy
U.S. GAO report demonstrates how inconsistent implementation can undermine disaster recovery programs
Where Environmental Commissioning Creates Value in Digital Infrastructure: Closing the Gap Between Construction and Operations
Critical digital infrastructure has a critical gap
Benzene at the Fenceline: The Public Metric Downstream Operators Can’t Treat Reactively
Why benzene is becoming a clear test of environmental maturity and operational assurance
Solving the PFAS Challenge Starts with a Different Question
The challenge is no longer finding PFAS, it’s proving treatment performance under real-world conditions
New report
The Onterris Outlook
Learn how leading organizations are turning environmental strategy into a business advantage