Top 200 Environmental Firms Weigh Market in Trump Era
Companies held their own in 2016 even as an election, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental sector.
The Top 200 Environmental Firms held their own in 2016, even as the election of Donald Trump, an uncertain post-Brexit Europe and still-sluggish oil prices loomed over the environmental marketplace.
Spurred by continuing cleanup mandates and some improved economic signals before Trump was officially installed as president, list participants in their overall revenue last year managed a 2% hike, to $54.47 billion—a total not seen in five years. The 2017 Top 200 firms’ domestic U.S. revenue growth of 2.4% dipped from last year’s 3.8% rate. But in a reversal, non-U.S.-generated revenue in 2016 rose 2.5%, to $12.2 billion, after declining more than 10% for participants reporting 2015 results.