Going global: A CEO's perspective

Significant changes have happened to the environmental services market in the United States. The long history of environmental regulatory hesitancy and delay, coupled with the effect of the nation's widespread recession on private sector and government initiatives and spending has resulted in the consolidation through mergers and acquisitions and globalizing of some environmental service firms. The shrinking of traditional US environmental markets is causing many environmental service firms to look to foreign markets for renewed revenue growth and a return to historical levels of profitability.