Your Trusted Partner in Environmental Solutions
At CK Associates, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional environmental consulting services tailored to your needs. Our commitment to quality and safety sets us apart in the industry.
Commitment to Quality and Client Trust
At CK Associates, we prioritize delivering exceptional results that foster trust with our clients. Our dedication to quality work sets us apart in the environmental consulting industry.
Quality Assurance
We ensure every project meets the highest standards of quality and client satisfaction.
Client Trust
Building long-lasting relationships through transparency and consistent delivery of results.
Services
CK Associates (CK) delivers comprehensive environmental consulting services, helping industries navigate complex regulations while promoting sustainable operations. Our expertise includes air, water, and waste compliance, ensuring businesses meet permitting, reporting, and regulatory requirements. We conduct ecological investigations, including environmental assessments, wetland delineations, and habitat evaluations, to support responsible development. Additionally, our risk assessment and remediation services provide site evaluations, remediation planning, and risk management strategies. With a strong focus on the oil and gas, manufacturing, and power sectors, we offer tailored solutions backed by decades of experience, ensuring compliance and environmental stewardship.
Air Quality
Ensuring compliance with air permitting, emissions monitoring, and regulatory reporting to help industries meet clean air standards.
Ecological
Conducting environmental assessments, wetland delineations, and habitat evaluations to support sustainable development.
Risk, Remediation, & Waste
Providing site evaluations, risk assessments, remediation planning, and waste management solutions to ensure regulatory compliance and environmental safety.
Water Quality
Supporting industries with water permitting, stormwater management, and wastewater compliance to protect water resources.
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Litigation Support
Litigation support services offer expert technical analysis in areas like site investigation, risk assessment, remediation, and regulatory compliance to support environmental legal cases.
Drone & GIS
Drone and GIS services provide high-quality aerial imagery, 3D mapping, and environmental monitoring to support construction, compliance, and coastal planning projects.
Career Openings
Join CK Associates (CK), an employee-owned environmental consulting firm with over 40 years of industry leadership. We foster a collaborative work environment where technical expertise and career growth go hand in hand. Our team is dedicated to delivering innovative environmental solutions while supporting professional development.
We offer competitive benefits, professional training, and opportunities to work on impactful projects in air, water, and waste compliance, ecological investigations, and risk assessment. If you're passionate about making a difference in environmental consulting, explore our current openings and submit your resume for future opportunities.
News & Updates
Stay informed with the latest news from CK Associates. From project milestones and company achievements to industry insights and regulatory updates, this is where we share what’s happening across our offices and the environmental consulting world. Check back regularly for announcements, thought leadership articles, and updates on how we’re continuing to serve our clients and communities with excellence.
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CK Associates is pleased to welcome David Toler. David brings 25 years of environmental consulting experience to projects involving solid and hazardous waste permitting, site investigation, remediation, and regulatory compliance. He works with industrial clients to develop practical approaches to complex environmental challenges.
David has led soil and groundwater investigations, prepared permit applications and closure plans, and managed remediation projects across Louisiana and other states. His experience includes applying Louisiana’s RECAP guidance to evaluate site conditions and working with regulatory agencies to move projects toward resolution.
David holds a master’s degree in Environmental Toxicology from Louisiana State University and a bachelor’s degree in Animal Biology from Louisiana Tech University.
We are excited to have David on board and look forward to the value he brings to our clients and our team.
We are excited to announce that Celena Cage has joined CK Associates as our newest environmental professional.
Celena brings more than three decades of environmental regulatory and compliance experience, including leadership roles with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ), where she most recently served as Assistant Secretary of the Office of Environmental Compliance, leading the agency’s enforcement and surveillance/inspection teams. Her extensive background includes environmental permitting, compliance evaluations, enforcement, inspections, spill response, and regulatory interpretation across air, water, waste, radiation, and industrial programs. Notably, she was the LDEQ lead for developing the state’s new Environmental Audit Privilege Program, which has been used by industrial clients in Texas for a number of years.
With Celena joining our team, CK is expanding our ability to provide:
▪️ Environmental Compliance Audits
▪️ Regulatory Readiness Assessments
▪️ Enforcement & Compliance Support
▪️ Environmental Management System Reviews
▪️ Strategic Regulatory Consulting
▪️ Air, Water, and Waste Compliance Assistance Organizations today face increasing regulatory complexity.
Celena's unique perspective from both the regulatory and consulting sides of the industry allows CK to help clients identify risks, strengthen compliance programs, understand the complexities of enforcement actions, and navigate environmental challenges with confidence.
Please join us in welcoming Celena to the CK team!
A former CK team member, Evan returns with more than 13 years of environmental consulting and industry experience, including recent leadership roles overseeing environmental compliance, permitting strategy, and regulatory programs for refining and industrial operations. Her expertise spans air permitting, Title V compliance, environmental reporting, and multi-media environmental compliance.
Throughout her career, Evan has demonstrated strong leadership in managing complex compliance programs, supporting capital projects, and partnering with operations teams to deliver practical, business-focused environmental solutions.
We are thrilled to welcome Evan back to CK Associates. Her combination of consulting expertise, industry leadership experience, and familiarity with our culture will be a tremendous asset to our clients and our team.
Frequently Asked Questions, Environmental Consulting in Baton Rouge and the Gulf Coast
CK Associates is an employee-owned environmental consulting firm based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It helps industrial clients with air quality permitting and regulatory compliance, water quality permitting, risk assessment, site investigation and remediation, solid and hazardous waste, ecological and wetlands permitting, and agency negotiations.
CK serves clients across Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama, with deep Gulf Coast roots.
The headquarters is at 8591 United Plaza Blvd, Suite 300, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809. Additional offices are in Lake Charles and Shreveport, Louisiana, and The Woodlands, Texas.
CK has more than 45 years of environmental consulting experience. It was founded in 1981 and has been employee-owned since 2004.
CK offers several environmental disciplines through one firm: air, water, waste, remediation and ecological services. It also brings strong knowledge of Gulf Coast environmental regulations and regulatory agencies, 45+ years of experience, and practical, defensible solutions tailored to each client rather than one-size-fits-all answers.
Yes, it is CK's lead service. CK prepares Title V, PSD, Nonattainment NSR and minor source air permit applications, runs air dispersion modeling, and supports compliance reporting, emissions inventories and auditing.
Yes. CK supports discharge permitting (LPDES, TPDES and NPDES), stormwater and SPCC plans, water quality modeling and monitoring, and industrial wastewater compliance.
Yes. CK works with regulatory agencies on permits, compliance matters and remediation requirements, using technical positions that are practical and defensible.
Oil and gas, manufacturing and power clients across the Gulf South.
Employees bought the firm in 2004, so the people working on your project have a stake in the company. CK's approach rests on acting in the client's best interests and investing in employees.
Yes. CK's teams cover all of these, so you can coordinate permits and compliance across disciplines with one environmental consulting partner.
Call (225) 755-1000 to talk with the team about your project.
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