In 1993, just 18 months after Aspen was founded, President Hamid Rastegar assembled a large team of experts to prepare an EIR/EIS for a controversial 150-mile crude oil pipeline from Kern County, through downtown Los Angeles County, ending at refineries in Wilmington.

Aspen Environmental Group is pleased to announce the opening of our newest office in Tempe, Arizona with new hire Philip Lowe! Our Tempe office will serve as a local base of operations to provide the same high-quality environmental services provided by our six California offices.

Aspen energy policy economist and natural gas expert Catherine Elder spoke at a Natural Gas Development Summit held in Taipei in mid-November. The Summit was hosted by the U.S. State Department and Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy and was staged by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research.

Palmdale Water District (PWD) recently awarded Aspen a contract amendment to continue work on the Littlerock Sediment Removal Project located in the Littlerock Recreation Area of the Angeles National Forest.

In October 2013, Aspen Cultural Resources Specialist Dr. Sarah Heffner was invited to speak at the first meeting of the recently formed Chinese Railroad Workers Archaeology Network Workshop, a part of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project, which was held at Stanford University from October 10-12.

As a volunteer for the California Condor Recovery Program sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Santa Barbara Zoo, Aspen’s Lead Environmental Monitor Jenny Slaughter gained access to some of our state’s most precious avian resources-the nesting California Condor.

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View the list of conferences Aspen attended in 2013.