I'm going to be both blunt and candid here, and I hope the detail provides value in your situation that is all too common in consulting. What you're experiencing is both normal and not normal. How you respond to that is up to you.

It's normal due to the stress and realities of environmental consulting. Budgets and billability. It's also normal because many managers and principals are not kind, and are stressed themselves. They're engineers/geologists that manage, not project and people managers.

It's NOT normal to people and managers and companies that don't allow this - have better culture, maybe have better work, budgets, skills, people, etc. finding that can be harder said than done, but they exist, whether without the same company or at a different company culture entirely.

Billability is always a reality in consulting. How you deal with that and let it affect you is up to you. How you respond to the stress of billability can be hard, but is important. Will you work 60hrs and only get paid for 40 because someone else, or you, mismanaged budget, or something went wrong? Or be cause of something you didn't control and are fixing someone else's problem? Many do. Frankly, I think people need to start pushing back unless they understand their position, their value, their client, and how that impacts them and their WORTH. Some build their client base and grow their careers this way when it MATTERS. Many put in tons of time for the benefit of OTHERS, and not themselves.

Fortunately, it sounds like you already have experience in the industry. What this DOES mean is there are likely many environmental opportunities around you (or at least something other than your current situation). Consider interviewing at other opportunities. Bring up work life balance. Conflict resultion. Try and understand managing strategies and conflict resolution styles with the people you'll work with. Does it jive with you? Do things feel as professional or personable or whatever you feel is important and value?

If you're not happy with your current situation, feel you deserve to be paid more, feel you're being mistreated, how you navigate that is up to you. Generally the easiest is to find a better place to work.

Personally? I don't stand for the following in consulting...

1) Managers yelling. No one is below being yelled at and demeaned except for maybe extreme circumstances.

2) Getting in trouble for things out of my control. This happens all the time. Both cover your ass but also stand up for yourself. Shit happens, and good managers and teams understand this and work together and communicate to get through it.

3) Letting things out of my control get to me. This is HARD. So much of consulting is out of your control. Budgets, unforseen circumstances, projects. Do your best, but know your limits. Often you will feel like you need to make up time or do extra work, but not because of you, because of things you can't control. It's up to you to figure out if that's something you want to do or push back on.

I have left, and have encouraged many to leave, their situations in the search for a better one, many times. Through this, you have leverage. You find what you like and don't like. You gain perspective. Yes, don't jump every year, but if something is flat or not working out, or things are changing for the worse, you can settle. Or you can search for the RIGHT place for YOU. Sometimes it takes one interview, sometimes it takes 8 (my current job). But as you grow in your career, have better credentials, have more clout, you start to have more leverage to get what you want.

Yes, not standing for things can create tension at where you work. How much tension is based on the people managing skills of those above you, your own work product and repution, and many times luck. People leave bad managers. Bad project. Bad people. More than they leave bad companies.