Greenhouse Gas Services

National Expert: Ray Huff and Victoria Evans

SCS is a pioneer in our nation’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat climate change. We proactively pursue the development of markets that produce major sources of methane and other GHGs as part of delivering products and services to consumers. SCS partners with our clients to destroy or monitor the equivalent of more than 35 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year. That’s the equivalent of removing 7.5 million passenger vehicles from the roads every year. SCS’s GHG experience and expertise includes:

• GHG emissions inventories and estimation of GHG reductions for manufacturing facilities, dairies, oil and gas operations, landfills, and other general commercial/industrial operations. SCS has conducted mandatory reporting for over 300 facilities.
• Verification/validation of GHG emission inventories, clean fuels, and reduction credit projects under regulatory and voluntary programs.
• Estimation of methane generation rates at landfills and quantifying GHG emission/reduction potential.
• Completion of GHG lifecycle analyses (LCAs) and carbon intensity scores for renewable fuels and electricity generation projects.
• Preparing GHG analyses for projects under NEPA/CEQA.
• Expert witness testimony regarding the generation, verification, valuation, and sale of GHG credits.
• Arranging for the sale of GHG credits and assisting our clients with monetization.
• Evaluation of GHG programs at the international, national, regional, state, and local levels to adequately advise our clients on how programs can affect their businesses.
• Corporate and municipal GHG climate reporting, including providing validation and assurance services for climate reports prepared by others.
• Some of our outstanding GHG credentials:
  –Accredited Verification Body within the California, Oregon, and Washington mandatory reporting and clean fuels programs.
  –Accredited livestock, mine methane capture (MMC), and ozone-depleting substances (ODS) offset project verification body under the California Air Resources Board’s Cap and Trade program, under which SCS has verified over 1 million credits that have been approved and used as a compliance mechanism.

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