Dr. Arulanantham has 28 years of experience developing public policies surrounding environmental compliance for land use and water quality issues. As the first toxicologist for the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards, he provided expertise and leadership in expanding the application of risk assessment and risk management to the areas of policy development, case review, and staff training.

 

Since 1993, Dr. Arulanantham has been the principal instructor for California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal-EPA)/State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)-sponsored training courses on risk-based decision making at petroleum-impacted sites. These courses have attracted more than 2,000 regulators, consultants, and responsible parties throughout the state, significantly affecting the movement of consultants and regulators toward accepting risk-based findings as a component of decision making and site closure. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Arulanantham provided state regulators nationwide with training on investigation and remediation of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)-impacted sites as part of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) effort to provide technical resources to successfully manage these sites.

 

During his tenure at Cal-EPA, Dr. Arulanantham was the only regulator in the country certified by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) as a national trainer for both the Risk-Based Corrective Action (RBCA) program and the Remediation by Natural Attenuation (RNA) standard; he has trained more than 1,000 regulators, consultants, and responsible parties in more than 20 states. He has given numerous invited lectures on risk-based decision making to a wide range of audiences and is nationally acknowledged as an expert on this subject.

 

Since joining the private sector in 2002, Dr. Arulanantham has been helping his industry clients find cost-effective business solutions to their environmental liabilities. He is very well known in his field for his abilities to develop and implement investigation, remediation, and risk management strategies for contaminated properties and to negotiate risk-based closures with regulatory agencies to obtain No Further Action letters for his clients. He has served as an expert witness for numerous litigation matters ranging from chlorinated solvent releases and indoor air impacts, human exposure to petroleum releases, adequacy of site investigation and remediation conducted to protect human health, classification and disposal of hazardous waste, proper application of cleanup levels, and achieving cleanup levels at contaminated sites.