Senior Technical Officer, Industrial Programs
Leah McKinley, Senior Technical Officer, Industrial Programs, provides technical expertise provides technical expertise on carbon credit project review and verification oversight in the California regulatory market as well as the voluntary carbon market. She focuses on projects related to landfill and mine methane capture and destruction and HFC reclamation. Leah joined ACR in 2022.
Prior to joining ACR, Leah worked as an Air Quality Analyst for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, where she wrote State Implementation Plans to allow Wyoming to keep primacy over certain environmental regulations. During her time with the State of Wyoming, Leah focused on reducing Regional Haze—which degrades the visibility of the air—in Wyoming’s National Parks and Wilderness Areas through emissions reduction technologies and methods.
Leah has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a Master of Public Service and Administration degree from Texas A&M University.
