Financial, legal and political bumps did not dent the global environmental services market for ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms, based on results reported in this year’s ranking.
Firms' global revenue hits new peak of $138.9 billion with elevated environmental priorities, more funding and continued sector consolidation, but key risks still hover.
Sector participants worry now if U.S. and global politics, and market forces, could slow or disrupt missions, but they're building on 2021 revenue gains and new momentum from an unexpected climate-change deal Senate Democrats passed on Aug. 7 with $369B in potential funding and expected House approval by Aug. 12.
Pandemic and energy transition usher in new needs for firms' expertise as reality finally sets in on the globe's ecological fragility. See which firms made this year's list.
The unfolding U.S. government change, and economic and political turmoil elsewhere, did not curb spending on environmental work; will GDPs soon depend on water assets?