Copperhead Environmental Consulting

5 days ago

What do a frog, an ecotoxicologist, and oil and gas industry professionals have in common? Answer: They’ll all be at the Copperhead Consulting booth Thursday, June 26, during the Kentucky Oil and Gas Association (KOGA) Annual Meeting in Lexington.

Stop by to learn how Copperhead helps clients meet business objectives while navigating evolving environmental regulations. Ecotoxicologist Matt Huddleston, Ph.D., our Vice President of Environmental Services, will be there to discuss your unique regulatory and environmental challenges.

The green treefrog will be on our booth banner. (It has scheduling conflicts and can’t be at the Campbell House in person.)

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Copperhead Environmental Consulting

1 week ago

Navigating complex regulatory terrain is what we do. Take the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Uinta Basin Railway project in Utah. The ruling, which limits the scope of environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), is sure to affect a lot more than oil transport. The decision will impact interpretations—and some say the teeth—of NEPA itself.

Environmental organizations and industry groups see the far-reaching implications very differently. At Copperhead, we stay attuned to every perspective—and we focus on the facts. Our expert environmental planners dig deep into how rulings like this affect NEPA processes, project timelines, and conservation priorities. We assess the local, site-specific impacts of national decisions, because what happens in Utah may influence future reviews across the country.

But as regulations evolve, our values don’t. We’re always committed to helping clients meet their goals responsibly—through ecosystem protection, minimized environmental impact, and science-based decision-making.

Let us know how Copperhead can help address your environmental challenges. Maybe you’ll also help us fill in the map!

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Copperhead Environmental Consulting

2 weeks ago

Copperhead folks fly planes, explore caves, and rappel down cliffs to track and study bats. Often, they work by moonlight or flashlight. That spirit of adventure has landed Steve Samoray—Copperhead wildlife biologist and pilot—on the pages of Night Magic, a book about “marvels of the night” by best-selling author Leigh Ann Henion.

Henion recounts how Samoray (at right in the photo, with wildlife biologist Price Sewell) and the Copperhead team tracked a tricolored bat, pursuing it for days from the air and through the mountains. The author also introduces Copperhead Consulting as being best known for creating an artificial roost for bats (BrandenBark™).

Steve, who has some cool quotes and a laid-back Indiana Jones vibe in the book, is described as “a lanky guy with shaggy gray hair that makes him seem more surfer than snake handler.”

Based out of Copperhead’s Nashville, Tennessee, office, Steve has yet to surf Mavericks, the famous waves at Half Moon Bay, California. But you never know, brah.

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