Focus

Project Management

Compliance Programs

Air Permitting

Property Assessments

Auditing

Advocacy

Acquisitions &

Divestitures Property

Education

California State University - B.A.,

   Sociology, Political

   Science

Professional Studies

University of Denver,

College of Law –

   Environmental Law

Texas A&M University

Inland Spill Control

School

California Highway Patrol

Hazardous Materials Transportation

Registrations

California Registered Environmental Assessor

(REA No. 00858)

National Panel of Consumer Arbitrators - Certified Arbitrator 

40 Hour Hazwoper

     Certified

Associations

Air & Waste Management Association (Board of Directors – Golden Empire Chapter)

Ronald W. Hunter, REA

Vice President, Principal, Project Manager

Bakersfield, California

Ronald Hunter is a Registered Environmental Assessor and Vice President of Insight Environmental Consultants.  He serves as lead Project Manager on environmental compliance programs and air quality impact analyses.  He has extensive experience in all phases of environmental compliance systems and programs covering over 25 years.  He has proven expertise in organization and management of audits at various industrial facilities to determine their compliance status with existing and forecasted environmental regulations.  He has managed and led large-scale efforts to examine several clients' readiness to operate under Title V of the Federal Clean Air Act that included reviewing over 20,000 permit conditions.  He also conducts and manages Air Quality Impact Analyses for residential, commercial, industrial and land use development and planning projects.

He has prepared and submitted numerous applications for emissions permits before the U.S. EPA as well as regulatory agencies in California, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kansas and Montana.  Mr. Hunter has negotiated numerous settlements with various regulatory agencies including the U.S. EPA, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, South Coast AQMD and Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Joaquin Valley APCDs. 

Mr. Hunter has managed large remediation efforts involving the activities of numerous contractors at multiple sites.  These projects entailed multi-million dollar budgets – many of which were completed with significant savings.    

Mr. Hunter has experience in the litigation of CERCLA cost-recovery cases, including de minimis settlement negotiations with the EPA and cost allocation among potentially responsible parties.  He also advises clients on environmental aspects of business transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures of contaminated and remediated sites.

Mr. Hunter has experience in civil litigation, having directed counsel and provided technical and regulatory advice in depositions and discovery.  He has participated in, conducted and directed mediation and settlement of numerous environmental matters.

Mr. Hunter is a Registered Environmental Assessor through the California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and has conducted many Phase I Environmental Assessments.  He is also a Certified Arbitrator with the National panel of Consumer Arbitrators where he has arbitrated numerous cases.

Additionally, Mr. Hunter is currently on the Board of Directors of the Golden Empire Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association.