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Environmental

Expert Witness Profile

Ms. Franks has 35+ years’ experience, education, credentials & licensing in geology, biology, remediation, & hazardous materials management. She holds credentials in asbestos, lead, indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, mold & bioaerosols, sick buildings, vapor intrusion, OSHA worker & evaluation of operational compliance & occupant hazards.

She practices environmental & industrial hygiene at TGE Resources, Inc., (Houston, TX), the firm she founded 30+ years ago. Ms. Franks is retained across her field - over 70 times with near equal defense & plaintiff representation. She has large case experience and has served in class action litigation, public and private sector suits. She’s an expert in environmental geoscience & hazardous material releases & spills within the transportation, bulk fuel, lube, and chemical industries.

Ms. Franks brings real estate due diligence capability & risk assessment knowledge for impaired property across industrial, commercial, and oil & gas settings. She’s performed 500+ assessments of hydrocarbon bulk fuel terminals, oil & gas wellhead locations, pipeline corridors, mid-stream bulk plants, & retail facilities.

She evaluates property and buildings for hazardous materials, abandoned contaminant sources, orphaned well sites & pits, and buried tanks & equipment. As a certified first responder, Ms. Franks executes post-flood/fire emergency tasks in buildings & industry. She’s credentialed to identify the extent of mold & microbial damage, source its cause of loss, & prepare mold protocols for its remediation under forensic methods of investigation & building construction defect.

She has evaluated workplaces following loss reports due to safety and public health concerns & offered mitigation strategies for worker safety under OSHA violation. She has served as an expert for multiple worker injury and wrongful death suits within the context of environmental exposure.

Robin Frank's CV

Education & Licenses

MS-Geology, Stephen F. Austin State University; BS-Geology, Stephen F. Austin State University; BS-Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University;

Licensing: Prof. Geologist (multiple states), Master Level CHMM, Corrective Action Project Mgr., Radiation Safety Officer, Asbestos Consultant, Lead Abatement Supervisor, Mold Assessment Consultant