John Kiefer has over 30 years of environmental engineering experience. As a registered Professional Engineer, he has worked on projects involving insurance cost recovery, remedial cost analysis, hazardous waste litigation, environmental management, and water quality assessments. He has reviewed the remedial scope and cost of environmental activities at facilities in the pharmaceutical, chemical, mining/mineral processing, petroleum, agricultural, pesticides, plastics, paint, railroad, pipeline, landfill, and hazardous waste disposal and recycling industries. Over the past 17 years, Mr. Kiefer has focused most of his time on cases involving environmental cost recovery, particularly cases requiring the audit of both past and future environmental cost claims made by insured parties against their insurance companies. He has extensive experience cost auditing and categorization, and determination of whether or not the costs are recoverable by the insured.