Jerome C. Edwards

Jerome C. Edwards is a Principal Scientist and President of Cameron-Cole, LLC, a national environmental consulting firm. He has over 24 years of experience in environmental and waste management services as a consultant to governmental and industrial clients. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Earth Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a registered professional geologist in several states. His current focus involves advanced data analysis applied to risk-based site remediation, groundwater and soil contamination at industrial sites, and evaluation of impacts from waste management facilities.

His direct experience includes Superfund sites (Love Canal, N.Y.; Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colo.; Lowery Landfill, Colo.; Pepper Steel, Fla.; Lorentz Barrel & Drum, Calif.; Uravan, Colo.; etc.), RCRA Corrective Actions, voluntary industrial site remediations (brownfields), support to RCRA permit holders, and litigation support (Colorado Attorney General’s Office). He has been successful as the lead technical negotiator for settlement negotiations on several Superfund and RCRA enforcement actions for both government and responsible party clients.

He is a faculty member of the International Institute of Environmental Risk Management and has taught professional classes in environmental risk management since 1998.

Prior to founding Cameron-Cole, he was a Senior Geologist for seven years with environmental consulting firms in Colorado and Virginia. He worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia for two years early in his career and has traveled extensively. Highlights of his experience include planning the 1996 White House Conference on Environmental Technology held in Washington, D.C. and Denver, Colorado. Notable publications include portions of the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment’s report Protecting the Nation’s Groundwater From Contamination, 1984, the Edison Electric Institute’s Manual for Groundwater Sampling, 1986, and Remediation at the Millennium in Pollution Engineering magazine, 1999.