Northstar Environmental Group offers a wide variety of services: cleaning oil from water, industrial and commercial waste from holding tanks, sediment from stormwater systems, and even brush from pastures.
And the Gallatin, Tennessee-based company is continuing to grow its business, during a time when some rival firms are experiencing downsizing and loss. Its success can be partially explained this way: The company kept offering services when competing companies didn’t.
“We are growing, absolutely,” says company President Colby Phillips. “We’ll expand another 10-15% this year. Our growth last year was partly because some of our competition scaled back and stopped for a while




















