{"id":24,"date":"2015-01-27T22:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T22:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2015-01-27T23:33:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T23:33:11","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style14\">Environmental Response and Southern Environmental Technologies, Inc. are businesses wholly-owned by Maureen Handler.\u00a0 Ms. Handler has been in the environmental contracting business since 1986 and has nearly 30 years experience in the construction industry.\u00a0 She also has her DOT DBE certification and is a certified stormwater inspector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style14\">Ms. Handler is a senior environmental engineer with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech.\u00a0 She has spent her career in the field excavating and cleaning up contaminated properties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style14\">Besides concentrating on her business, Ms. Handler is very involved with non-profit organizations that deal with protecting the environment. \u00a0The SERA Karst Task Force, (SKTF), is a non-profit organization of cave explorers that promotes ground water and cave protection and conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style14\">Sewanee Mountain Grotto, in Sewanee, TN, is a local organization of cavers that is conservation oriented and participates actively with the SKTF.\u00a0 The SMG has adopted the Russell Cave National Monument Watershed and has spent the last three years removing 30 tons of debris from the watershed to restore the area.\u00a0 Ms. Handler has been an active caver since 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style14\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/close_confinement-300x200.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/close_confinement-300x200-300x200.png\" alt=\"close_confinement-300x200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Response and Southern Environmental Technologies, Inc. are businesses wholly-owned by Maureen Handler.\u00a0 Ms. Handler has been in the environmental contracting business since 1986 and has nearly 30 years experience in the construction industry.\u00a0 She also has her DOT DBE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/?page_id=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.environmentalresponse.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}