Strategic Environmental Analysis , L.C. (SEA) is an environmental management consulting firm that serves clients in the hazardous waste, radioactive waste, solid waste, recycling and wastewater fields by analyzing the impact of business, regulatory and technology factors on the environmental services marketplace, and by devising strategies to cope with future market conditions. SEA's areas of practice include custom market surveys, due diligence investigations, regulatory analysis, expert witness testimony and litigation support, technology assessments, multi-client research, and policy development and representation projects.

SEA is a dynamic, low overhead, consulting firm that effectively responds to the needs of its clients, even within the quick turnaround times often required for Board or Senior Management determinations. Experienced, quality personnel and extensive professional contacts across the country enable this independent firm to provide a broad range of services. Clients include members of the business, legal and financial communities, engineering firms, insurance companies, members of the Fortune 500, Federal and state agencies, environmental groups, EPAand the DOE.

The President of SEA, L.C. is Richard C. Fortuna.  For the past 23 years, Mr. Fortuna has been one of the principal architects of the nation's preventive hazardous waste management policies.  Mr. Fortuna is best known for his work in developing  key provisions of the 1984 RCRA Amendments,  including the land disposal restriction, corrective action and “hammer” provisions, while serving on the House Energy and Commerce Committee under Congressman James  Florio.  In addition, he participated in the enactment of the original Superfund Act in 1980, while a member of Congressman John J. Dingell’s personal staff, and contributed to the 1986 Superfund Reauthorization (SARA).  Based on these and other legislative successes,  a recent Brookings study identified “reducing exposure to hazardous waste” as one of the Federal government’s 50 greatest accomplishments of the 20th century.

After leaving Capitol Hill in 1983, Mr. Fortuna served as  Executive Director of the Hazardous Waste Treatment Council for 11 years -- a group which played a pivotal role in implementing all key RCRA and CERCLA policies and provisions.  Mr. Fortuna is one of the few individuals who has: personally developed provisions of the RCRA and CERCLA (Superfund) legislation, followed and affected their implementation for over twenty years, and has witnessed first hand the response of regulated industry  to the changing nature of federal and state legislation regulations in this area.

Mr. Fortuna is considered one of the foremost experts on RCRA and CERCLA’s (Superfund) origins, purposes, provisions and implementation.  Mr. Fortuna has been admitted as a RCRA, CERCLA (Superfund) and/or Clean Water Act Expert witness in Federal and State Court and EPA ALJ proceedings.  Mr. Fortuna has served as a RCRA, CERCLA (Superfund) and/or Clean Water Act (CWA) Expert witness in over twenty cases or proceedings involving RCRA, CERCLA (Superfund) and/or Clean Water Act (CWA) legislation, regulation, policy, purposes or implementation. 

SEA works in partnership with several individual experts and firms to bring the best set of complimentary skills to bear on the task at hand.  SEA specializes in development of real-time data on current market conditions and analysis by experts with over 60 years of experience with environmental markets. SEA also provides technical, legal, and policy guidance to the financial and legal community on investment and litigation projects. SEA's consulting services include assisting clients with strategic planning, competitive analysis, regulatory and policy analysis, technology assessments and related business research.

• the recognized quality and effectiveness of their work and research

• ongoing data collection in eight distinct market sectors

• ongoing interaction with and evaluation of the commercial industry insights from working with more than 200 companies on the full range of environmental business opportunities, and

• access to a full range of information services including numerous databases and news services