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Business View Magazine
Miller Environmental Group, Inc.
Decades of experience in cleaning and protecting the environment
Thirty-nine years before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
– claimed by many to be the worst environmental di-
saster in U.S. history – Jim Miller Sr. was a commercial
fisherman home ported out of Port Jefferson, NY. Jim
was a lobsterman. His family owned a farm and he ran
a commercial fishing business. On one particular day,
back in 1971, there was another oil spill – this time, in
his home port.
The company responsible for the oil spill hailed Jim on
the way back into port to ask for assistance. Jim and
his sons raced home, got whatever equipment and
supplies he thought could be useful, and came back
with a team, ready to help clean up the fouled waters.
It was the beginning of a new business, and indeed, of
a new industry.
In fact, that day in the early 1970s, was the start of
Miller Environmental Group (MEG). And for the next
thirty years, Jim and his team stood ready to handle
whatever environmental disasters the world could
throw at them. George Wallace III, MEG’s Vice Presi-
dent and Chief Commercial Officer, admits, “It was
completely circumstance.”
In 1999 Mark Miller, the youngest of the Miller sons,
purchased MEG from Jim Miller Sr., and has kept the
company principles of exceptional customer service
and innovation at the forefront of the business. The
firm has broadly expanded its scope of services and
geographic footprint under Mark’s leadership. He has
overseen his firm’s involvement in such events as the
9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Deepwa-
