Internships and Employment - Pollution Prevention and Remediation
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The Bren School places a strong emphasis on gaining professional experience. Internships are an excellent way to network with professionals in your field and offer a great opportunity to gain practical training and experience. Many times, internships can lead to permanent employment.
Students specializing in Pollution Prevention and Remediation at the Bren School have found career positions with consulting firms, non-profit organizations, government, industry and more. If you would like to learn more about the placement of Bren School alumni, please see the Bren School Career Placement Statistics page.
The following links provide a number of key organizations you might explore that offer pollution prevention and remediation internships and employment opportunities.
Internships
The following companies offer national and international internship opportunities:
International Pollution Internships
- USAID Training, Internship, Exchanges, and Scholarships (TIES) Program Grants
- Rainforest Action Network
- Center for Alternative Technology
- Outreach International
National Pollution Internships
Local Pollution Internships
- Ecolutions
- Bay Area Air Quality Management District
- Creek Watchers: Community Environmental Council
- California Air Resources Board
- California Department of Water Resources
- City of Santa Barbara Water Resources Division
- Goleta
Water District
- Project Clean Water
To learn more about internship opportunities that Bren students have experienced in this and other environmental disciplines, please visit our Career Services Internship pages (NOTE: This site also contains restricted internship sites for current Bren students only). The Career Services division maintains professional relationships with those organizations that have facilitated internship experiences with Bren students and alumni.
Employment
To learn more about employment opportunities in pollution prevention and remediation related fields and in other environmental disciplines, please visit our Career Services Employment pages.
The following
organizations have positions in pollution prevention and remediation:
- CA Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG)
- Southern California Council on Environment and Development
- PCR Services Corporation
- Weiss Associates
- Envicom Corporation
- Woodard & Curran
- County of Santa Barbara-Current Employment Opportunities
- Cal/EPA-Department of Toxic Substances Control
- Bonneville
Power Admin-Pollution Prevention Program (Pacific Northwest)
- US EPA Microbiology Home Page
- California Air Resources Board
- California Integrated Waste Management Board
- California Department of Toxic Substances Control
- Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
- Remediation Services, Int'l (RSI)
- Rincon Consultants
- Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District
- Santa Barbara County Waste Reduction Programs
- American Pollution Control, Corp. (AMPOL)
- Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)
- Envirogen, Inc.
- EPA-Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program
- EPA-Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances
- Foss Environmental Services Company
- Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
- Pollution Probe (Canada)
- Terra Vac
- Western Regional Pollution Prevention Network
- BOSS-Groundwater Bioremediation Modeling Center
- Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International
- Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
- The World Bank Group-New Ideas in Pollution Regulation (NIPR)
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Toxic Chemicals Initiative
