Karen Hartley has more than 15 years of experience in environmental consulting, with particular emphasis on merger and acquisition due diligence and regulatory compliance auditing. She has conducted and managed large-scale due diligence environmental assessments and regulatory compliance audits of more than 500 industrial, manufacturing and commercial facilities throughout the US and abroad, to assess on- and off-site liabilities. Many of these assignments involved complex contamination and compliance matters requiring the development of reasonable worst case remedial cost estimates. She has also conducted multiple environmental, health and safety (EHS) compliance audits at an array of manufacturing sites in the automotive, pharmaceutical, aviation and steelmaking industries. Karen has assisted industrial facilities in complying with environmental permitting and reporting requirements, which included applying for, obtaining, transferring and terminating environmental permits and registrations, as well as preparing environmental reports.