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Dr Liz Nicol

MSci PhD

Liz is an Associate Director within the Environmental Policy & Economics team and joined the company in 2021

Liz is an environmental toxicologist with over 8 years of experience specialising in understanding the source, fate and effects of chemicals in the environment. She has delivered and managed projects for the UK Environment Agency, Defra, European Commission, European Environment Agency (EEA) and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)..

Her expertise lies in the area of emerging contaminants and has led to her completing work on the risks associated with endocrine disruptors in drinking water, hazards and effects of intentionally added microplastics, prioritising chemical risks to groundwater from practices such as land spreading of waste and identifying contaminants of emerging concern to surface waters. In addition to this, Liz has managed international work on POPs under the Stockholm Convention, reviewed global chemical regimes beyond EU REACH and completed studies to support the recent work on the broad restriction of PFAS and the zero pollution ambition of the EU.

Prior to this she completed a PhD in aquatic ecotoxicology and is still actively involved in the research community sitting on the UK council for the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and regularly attends UK Chemical Stakeholder Forum meetings at Defra.

Ben Marner compiled the Air Quality chapter for the Broadmoor Hospital ES, which I co-ordinated. He did a thoroughly excellent job and I have recommended him for more work and bids since then. I would have no hesitation in using him again on any ES I was leading, for any type of development.

LDA Design

Case studies

 

Impact assessment support for the revision of the E-PRTR Regulation

Undertake a formal impact assessment of options to revise the Regulation establishing the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) according to the Commission’s Better Regulation Guidelines.

 
 

Assessment of permitting stringency in industrial installations

To support the Commission’s ongoing assessment of implementation of the IED and the BAT Conclusions.

 
 

Impact Evaluation of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund in the UK

To identify the impacts of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund in the UK and the external factors that effected it.

 
 

Air Policy Support Framework

Leading a consortium to support development of clean air policy in the EU

 

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