ASSOCIATES Associates are professional individuals outside the firm who have supplementary and complementary skills, and are available from time to time for specific projects. Troy D. Abel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Studies Huxley College of the Environment Western Washington University My professional interests encompass environmental policy, state and local government, and citizen participation.  In one strand of my scholarship, I focus on the development of environmental strategies in U.S. communities. Some of my more recent work also delves into the controversial field of environmental justice. Currently, I'm collaborating with Professors Michael Kraft (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Mark Stephan (Washington State University-Vancouver) in the last year of a project supported by the National Science Foundation.  This research focuses on why some businesses do more to protect the environment. Outside of the University, I serve as the American Editor for the International Journal of Environment and Pollution.  It is a refereed, international journal, published by Inderscience Enterprises Limited (Geneva, Switzerland) in eight issues per year, providing an international forum for scientific analyses and discussions in the field of environment and pollution. Mark E. Lofthus, B.S., M.A., Economics, George Mason University Available to research any issue client has interest in, will give all available information on topic(s) in relevant and useful forms.  In addition to problem identification, econometric tools used for exploratory data analysis are available.  I will provide reports of primary and secondary causes to economic/allocation systems as well as mechanisms for increasing efficiency for defined goals.  Able and willing to offer information in usable formats such as:  Shazam, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Excel, and some mathematical solutions via Maple/Macsyma/Maxima.