Karen McCurdy

Technical Manager, Industrial Programs

Karen McCurdy, Technical Manager, Industrial Programs, provides technical expertise on carbon credit project review and verification oversight in the California and Washington regulatory markets as well as the voluntary carbon market. She focuses on projects to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions through destruction of ozone-depleting substances, plugging orphaned oil & gas wells, and reclaiming refrigerants.

Karen joined ACR after over 20 years in environmental management and consulting. She has extensive experience conducting state and federal regulatory compliance, record-keeping and reporting projects for industrial and commercial clients, particularly in the specialty chemicals, wood products, and metal fabrication sectors. Her focus has been on Title V air permitting, GHG reporting, and air dispersion modeling. Karen has also worked with Clean Water Act compliance, nature-based solutions to flood mitigation, and sustainable agriculture throughout her career.

Karen is a registered Professional Environmental Engineer in Arkansas. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.

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ACR benefits from a responsive, best-in-class team with wide-ranging expertise, including carbon project development, climate policy, carbon market design, carbon credit methodology development, third-party verification, and registry design and operations. We understand the complex technical, market and regulatory issues involved in developing carbon projects and work with asset owners to navigate the process from project registration and verification through to the issuance of carbon credits.

ACR is governed by Environmental Resources Trust LLC, a wholly-owned nonprofit subsidiary of Winrock International. The ERT Board of Managers ensures ACR maintains focus on harnessing the power of markets to improve the environment. View the latest ACR annual report.