SCS professionals are active in, and leaders of industry and professional associations. We organize and participate in workshops and conferences, author and present technical papers, conduct research, and participate in national and state-level legislative and rule-making processes and regulatory policy. Our engineers, environmental consultants, and scientists work in close coordination on environmental solutions.
Mike McLaughlin, PE, JD, is SCS Engineers’ Senior Vice President of Environmental Services and our National Expert on Brownfields & Landfill Redevelopment. He is a licensed engineer and attorney with over 40 years of professional experience providing advice on environmental matters. He is an expert on environmental compliance, remediation, and allocation of response costs. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar Environmental Law Section, and Budget Officer of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (ABA SEER).
Mike McLaughlin, PE, JD, is SCS Engineers’ Senior Vice President of Environmental Services and our National Specialist on Brownfields & Landfill Redevelopment. He is a licensed engineer and attorney with over 40 years of professional experience providing advice on environmental matters. He is an expert on environmental compliance, remediation, and allocation of response costs. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar Environmental Law Section, and Budget Officer of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (ABA SEER).
Mr. McLaughlin advises developers, contractors, lenders and land development professionals on the technical and regulatory requirements for construction on Brownfields sites nationwide. His combined engineering and legal background provides an unusual perspective on land development where hazardous wastes or other environmental challenges are present. Redevelopment of closed landfills is an area of special interest; he worked on his first such project in 1976.
In addition to his extensive Brownfields redevelopment experience in North America, Mr. McLaughlin has worked at some three dozen Superfund National Priorities List sites in 17 states, and on scores of regulatory compliance, voluntary cleanup, and remediation projects for commercial, industrial, municipal, and military clients. He is also well-versed in liquids management.
He is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia and New Mexico, a member of the Virginia Bar, and active in the American Bar Association (Section of Environment, Energy and Resources and Waste Management Committee), the Virginia State Bar Environmental Law Section, and the Urban Land Institute.
Mike Miller, CHMM, is a Senior Vice President and one of our National Experts on Environmental Due Diligence and on Solid Waste Collection and Routing. As of January 1, 2025 he is our National Environmental Services Market Leader. He has a wide variety of experience in the environmental management and consulting field in both the private and federal sectors. Mike oversees many environmental projects across the region and coordinates environmental due diligence projects nationally including transactional due diligence, M&A due diligence, brownfield assessment and redevelopment, environmental compliance consulting, environmental permitting, and environmental remediation. His environmental background includes assessment of common special concerns related to redevelopment projects specifically, asbestos, lead-based paint, Poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and overall risk mitigation, monitoring and management.
Mike Miller, CHMM, is a Senior Vice President and one of our National Experts on Environmental Due Diligence and on Solid Waste Collection and Routing. As of January 1, 2025 he is our National Environmental Services Market Leader. He has a wide variety of experience in the environmental management and consulting field in both the private and federal sectors. Mike oversees many environmental projects across the region and coordinates environmental due diligence projects nationally including transactional due diligence, M&A due diligence, brownfield assessment and redevelopment, environmental compliance consulting, environmental permitting, and environmental remediation. His environmental background includes assessment of common special concerns related to redevelopment projects specifically, asbestos, lead-based paint, Poly-chlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and overall risk mitigation, monitoring and management.
Mike provides environmental management and consulting to the private and federal sectors and develops and implements environmental health & safety (EH&S) programs and solutions at industrial facilities in the agricultural processing, chemical processing, distribution/transportation, metals, and pharmaceutical manufacturing sectors.
Prior to joining SCS, Mr. Miller was responsible for providing environmental compliance support to Postal Service facilities in 15 Western U.S. states. In this capacity, he forecasted, negotiated, and managed an annual budget of $5,000,000. He effectively communicated environmental liabilities to senior management with regard to ongoing operations and planned capital projects, identified compliance alternatives and/or corrective actions to mitigate risk, and monitored implementation of necessary actions. Specific environmental activities included asbestos, lead-based paint, and radon gas management, underground storage tank management, environmental auditing, spill planning, stormwater management, and other regulatory compliance activities.
Mr. Miller has also served as an environmental consultant in Omaha, Nebraska where he provided a wide array of EH&S services to various industrial clients throughout the Midwest.
Monte Markley is a Senior Vice President and our National Expert for Deep Well and Underground Injection Control and for Carbon Capture and Sequestration. He also manages our Wichita office. His project experience includes engineering geology evaluations related to salt caverns, geologic isolation of fluids and compressed gasses, hydrogeological investigations at landfills and quarries, liquids management, regulatory compliance, and permitting, groundwater investigations at superfund and RCRA facilities, remedial system design, cost allocation and recovery from responsible parties. He is a Professional Geologist licensed in the state of Kansas.
Monte Markley is a Senior Vice President and our National Expert for Deep Well and Underground Injection Control and for Carbon Capture and Sequestration. He also manages our Wichita office. His project experience includes engineering geology evaluations related to salt caverns, geologic isolation of fluids and compressed gasses, hydrogeological investigations at landfills and quarries, liquids management, regulatory compliance, and permitting, groundwater investigations at superfund and RCRA facilities, remedial system design, cost allocation and recovery from responsible parties. He is a Professional Geologist licensed in the state of Kansas.
