The nonprofit Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest, founded five months ago by Boulder, Colo., lawyer Randall Weiner, has already made headlines. On behalf of a Denver neighborhood exposed to a hydrogen-chloride spill, the environmental consulting firm sued Vulcan Chemical Co., which had failed to provide adequate warnings and information to residents. The neighborhood has won the first legal round. The firm creates teams of scientists, lawyers and others who want to work on environmental problems. ECPI can be reached at 303/444-4785, or write 1942 Broadway, Suite 206, Boulder, CO 80302.

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Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest

by Staff, High Country News
July 7, 1997

<h1>Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />July 7, 1997</p> <p>The nonprofit Ecological Consultants for the Public<br /> Interest, founded five months ago by Boulder, Colo., lawyer Randall<br /> Weiner, has already made headlines. On behalf of a Denver<br /> neighborhood exposed to a hydrogen-chloride spill, the<br /> environmental consulting firm sued Vulcan Chemical Co., which had<br /> failed to provide adequate warnings and information to residents.<br /> The neighborhood has won the first legal round. The firm creates<br /> teams of scientists, lawyers and others who want to work on<br /> environmental problems. ECPI can be reached at 303/444-4785, or<br /> write 1942 Broadway, Suite 206, Boulder, CO<br /> 80302.</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=186864">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Ecological Consultants for the Public Interest</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-105/ecological-consultants-for-the-public-interest/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=101789&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-105/ecological-consultants-for-the-public-interest/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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