SCS Engineers announces Steven Stewart, PE, PMP, is now leading the firm’s Sustainability-CAA-GHG practice. Stewart has twenty-five years of experience within the environmental consulting and manufacturing industry, providing strategic thinking related to project planning, regulatory strategy, and developing sustainability initiatives that achieve goals.
Sustainability plans designed without environmental experts who have designed, built, and operated solutions do not always assure intended goals. SCS’s Sustainability practice combines Clean Air Act (CAA) solution experts and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) experts to create accurate emissions inventories, identify GHG reduction opportunities, and provide third-party verification of GHG emission inventories and reduction credits.
Stewart leads projects related to energy efficiency measures, GHG reduction, carbon sequestration, water reuse and stewardship, and solid waste minimization and recycling and circularity programs. His broad experience also expands into permitting and compliance, environmental management systems, long-term environmental planning, and environmental sustainability capital projects. His manufacturing background in managing large Capital Projects and Environmental programs provides clients additional value when preparing proformas and business cases for sustainability and environmental projects.
Combining Expertise for Excellence
Stewart pulls from a deep bench of expertise at SCS to offer more accurate and targeted plans. The Clean Air Act touches virtually every aspect of economic activity in the United States. It requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for certain pollutants to protect public health and welfare nationwide. The Act provides a comprehensive set of regulations to monitor air toxins and requires major sources of air pollution to obtain detailed operating permits. The CAA also requires states to adopt enforceable plans to achieve and maintain air quality standards and control harmful emissions that might drift across state lines.
SCS has a long history of working with manufacturing, landfills, dairies, and food processing operations to generate and sell GHG credits by voluntarily installing recovery systems and selling methane as fuel. Even greater benefits are available when methane is used as renewable energy to offset natural gas or coal-fired power generation, considering that it is a GHG 28 times more potent than CO2. The firm supports clients with solutions to capture or destroy methane and other emissions, which can have significant environmental benefits. Destroying or isolating methane via combustion, carbon casting, or carbon sequestration can reduce GHG potential by 95 percent.
The firm’s Greenhouse Gas experts perform emissions inventories, estimate GHG reductions, or provide third-party verification of GHG emission inventories and reduction credits. These professionals develop Inventory Management Plans for GHG emissions estimates and offsets and work with the Sustainability team to develop the most effective strategies for reducing GHG emissions, including costs, designing, constructing, and operating projects to reduce emissions.
Value is Client Satisfaction
SCS Engineers serves a broad and diverse base of clients. Each has different needs, from large national accounts to municipalities to local businesses. We know that there are three things that every SCS customer wants: a dedicated partner, insight to help them run their business efficiently, and technical services that deliver quality deliverables that result in the biggest impact possible.
SCS delivers these elements by embracing new proven technology, incorporating circularity, and drawing from a deep bench of professional engineers, scientists, and technologists with field experience into everything we produce. This is why SCS is one of North America’s longest-running environmental engineering firms.
Over the years, SCS has expanded and hired many talented people. Employees guide the firm, maintaining the founders’ focus and culture of adopting their clients’ environmental challenges as their own and fostering a culture of success for clients, employees, and communities.
SCS has won multiple awards for helping clients minimize waste generation and greenhouse gases, effectively managing recycling, collection, and disposal operations, renewable energy, safely cleaning up contaminated properties, treating wastewater, protecting groundwater, and creating technologies used to accurately track, safely operate, design and build systems for longevity.
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