What Environmental Restoration does

Environmental Restoration, LLC (ER) is a St. Louis-headquartered, 100% employee-owned environmental services firm founded in 1997 that delivers hazardous-material emergency response, environmental remediation and construction, transportation and disposal, and industrial maintenance services to federal and state agencies and commercial/industrial clients. The company operates four core service lines — 24/7 Emergency Response (including Oil Spill Response Organization #0156 classification), Environmental Remediation/Construction, Transportation & Disposal (~20,000 waste shipments per year), and Industrial Maintenance — supported by a Centralized Service Center for waste profiling, scheduling, manifesting, and real-time tracking, plus specialized offerings in UST/AST tank services and asbestos abatement.

The business is anchored in long-dated federal contracting: ER holds competitively awarded contracts with USEPA, USACE, USCG, USDOT and DoD valued at over $3 billion in aggregate, including three Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO) sediment-remediation contracts totaling over $450 million awarded from 2011 to present, and a prime USACE role at the Libby, Montana National Priorities List asbestos site. The company holds OSRO #0156 status under OPA 90, Small Business designation under NAICS 562910, a Corporate Health and Safety Program with EMR of 0.91, and small-business set-aside eligibility that supports award pipelines.

ER delivers work through 20 regional offices with 500+ direct field staff and a network of 8,500+ specialty-trained personnel and subcontractors, extending emergency-response coverage to all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands via an affiliate partnership program. Revenue is generated through Fixed Price and Cost-Reimbursable government contracts (professional services model) supplemented by fee-for-service commercial emergency response and industrial maintenance agreements. In June 2024 the company completed a transition to 100% employee ownership under an ESOP, with Mark Ruck serving as President.

Name

Environmental Restoration

Legal name

Environmental Restoration, LLC

Website

https://erllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Environmental Restoration, LLC is a 100% employee-owned (ESOP) St. Louis-based firm delivering 24/7 hazardous-material emergency response, environmental remediation, waste transportation and disposal, and industrial maintenance services to federal/state agencies and industrial clients nationwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Remediation Services

NAICS

Remediation Services (56291), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Remediation & Site Cleanup (Soil/Groundwater) (IMAIAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pollution Response & Environmental Salvage (Oil Spill, HAZMAT) (IMAJANAF), Solvent Recovery & Hazardous Waste Recycling/Reclamation (Distillation, Reuse) (BPALAFAH), Asset Recovery, Surplus & Decommissioning Services (EUAIANAD)

Keywords

• Environmental remediation services
• Hazardous waste management
• Emergency response services
• Industrial maintenance services
• Asbestos abatement services

Headquarters

HQ city

St Louis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices20 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Contracts: ER generates revenue primarily through competitively awarded government contracts with USEPA, USACE, and state agencies. These include Fixed Price and Cost Reimbursable contracts for emergency response, remediation, and environmental construction services. Current government contracts have a value of over $3B.
2. Commercial and Industrial Emergency Response: ER provides emergency response services for commercial and industrial clients on a fee-for-service basis, responding to hazardous material incidents, oil spills, and environmental emergencies.
3. Transportation and Disposal Services: ER manages hazardous and non-hazardous waste transportation and disposal, managing approximately 20,000 waste shipments per year through a network of permitted TSDFs and transportation companies.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Environmental Restoration, LLC provides 24/7 hazardous material emergency response, environmental remediation and construction, transportation and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, and industrial maintenance services. The company serves federal and state government agencies (USEPA, USACE, DoD) and commercial/industrial clients across all 50 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands through 20 office locations.

Product overview

Environmental Restoration, LLC operates as a hazardous waste remediation and emergency response services company offering four core service lines: Emergency Response (24/7 hazardous material incident response including oil spill response), Environmental Remediation/Construction (soil/groundwater treatment, engineered caps, water treatment systems), Transportation & Disposal (hazardous/non-hazardous waste logistics with ~20,000 annual shipments), and Industrial Maintenance (hydroblasting, tank cleaning, turnaround support). Additional specialized offerings include UST/AST Tank Services and Asbestos Abatement. The company serves government agencies (USEPA, USACE) and commercial/industrial clients through 20 office locations nationwide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emergency Response
• Environmental Remediation and Construction
• Transportation and Disposal Services
• Industrial Maintenance
• UST / AST Tank Services
• Asbestos Abatement

Quantifiable outcome

• Responds to over 3,200 hazardous material incidents annually across all 50 US states
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered major and minor.

• Great Lakes Soil Remediation (GLSR) Joint VenturemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerER participates in a Joint Venture (JV) called Great Lakes Soil Remediation (GLSR) with EPA for sediment remediation projects. As part of this JV, ER was selected by EPA Headquarters to receive the EPA Region 5 Small Business Award in 2012. The JV was awarded three GLNPO contracts totaling over $450M for sediment remediation from 2011 to present.
• PRI-ER Joint VenturemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerER's joint venture (PRI-ER) received the Small Business 2017 Governor's Safety Achievement Award for work performed on the Libby Asbestos Superfund Site. The joint venture demonstrated commitment to safety for Montana's workforce.
• AudioEyeminorOthersAudioEye is a third-party provider of Web Accessibility testing and monitoring for erllc.com. Results of automated testing are reported to ER's AudioEye platform. AudioEye either remediates discovered issues or provides a Source Feedback Report (SFR) for ER to remediate.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Clean Harbors: Clean Harbors is the largest publicly traded environmental services company in North America, providing hazardous waste management, emergency response, and industrial services. It directly competes with ER on USEPA and USACE contracts but at meaningfully larger scale and broader geographic scope.
• Stericycle: Stericycle is a large publicly traded regulated waste management and compliance services provider. It overlaps with ER on hazardous waste transportation, disposal, and industrial services, though it skews more toward regulated medical waste and smaller-quantity generator customers.
• Republic Services: Republic Services is a major publicly traded environmental services company with a substantial hazardous waste and industrial services business (including its US Ecology acquisition). It competes with ER for industrial hazardous waste volumes and some federal opportunities at much larger scale.
• Waste Management Inc. Waste Management is the largest waste services company in North America with growing environmental and industrial services exposure. It competes with ER on hazardous waste transportation, disposal, and remediation projects, though its core franchise is solid waste rather than emergency response.
• AECOM: AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting and remediation firm with a large federal environmental services practice. It competes with ER on USEPA and USACE remediation work, though AECOM's role skews more toward design/engineering while ER self-performs construction and field response.
• Jacobs Solutions: Jacobs (formerly CH2M) operates a significant federal environmental remediation business serving USEPA, USACE, and DoD. It competes with ER on large Superfund and military cleanup contracts, though at a much larger scale and with a consulting-led delivery model.
• Veolia North America: Veolia's North American Hazardous Waste business provides industrial services, waste management, and remediation. It competes with ER for industrial hazardous waste customers and on some federal remediation opportunities, though Veolia is much broader and globally diversified.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a leading environmental consulting and engineering firm with a large federal water and remediation practice. It competes with ER on USEPA and USACE work, but as a consulting-led firm rather than self-performing emergency response and field remediation.

Direct peers

• Heritage Environmental Services: Heritage Environmental Services is a privately held provider of hazardous waste management, environmental remediation, and emergency response services. It is one of the closest direct comparables to ER in terms of service mix (remediation, transportation, emergency response) and customer base (industrial and government).

Emerging players

• GFL Environmental Services: GFL Environmental is a rapidly growing North American environmental services company that has been expanding into hazardous waste and industrial services. It is an emerging competitive threat in industrial maintenance and waste transportation segments where ER operates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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