About Cameron-Cole
For more than 20 years, Cameron-Cole has been committed to delivering the highest levels of performance expected by our clients, our employees, and our shareholders, tackling the most difficult issues with solutions that stand the test of time.
Established in 2001 as an independent environmental services firm that fulfills demanding requirements and efficiently addresses complex environmental issues, the scope of Cameron-Cole’s expertise goes beyond that which most environmental services providers can offer with hands-on experience evaluating environmental issues from your perspective. With experience at facilities across the country that have environmental and compliance requirements ranging from simplistic to the more complex, our goals are simple: reduce your compliance burden and lower associated costs. Our team brings proven expertise to each client assignment, including our staff scientists, engineers, technicians, and consulting experts. Our partners outside of the U.S. extend our reach and assist in market-specific knowledge and experience.
After joining the ADEC Innovations group of companies in September 2021, our focus remains on addressing clients’ environmental challenges while improving the world we live in by advancing sustainability practices globally. As an ADEC Innovation, Cameron-Cole also offers additional environmental services such as CEQA/NEPA compliance, plus the ability to support your ESG needs at any point along your sustainability journey.
Diversity and respect are fundamental.
Fundamental to our teams. Fundamental to our clients. Fundamental to the communities we serve and live in. Fundamental to the landscapes we work within. We need you and your unique talents, history, and background to become the company we aspire to be.
We insist upon a culture of common respect, expect transparency, and celebrate the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals. Our mutual equality as humans is the path to diverse and innovative collaboration.
We cultivate integrity, driving us to growth, and allowing us to achieve more together than we could ever hope to as individuals.
Our recent projects highlight our breadth of expertise across multiple disciplines throughout the United States.
37
years of experience
8000+
projects completed
6
offices across the US
Our Leadership Team
Cameron-Cole is comprised of experts in environmental, sustainability, and energy management who collaborate with clients to develop the solutions that drive the highest return on investment.
Careers at Cameron-Cole
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to attract, employ, and retain qualified individuals with the requisite skills, education, and experience from the available population.
How we can help
Operating with significant environmental liabilities and risks presents a constant potential for complications to arise. Don't let these dilemmas hinder your organization. Cameron-Cole's environmental experts are trained to craft solutions that reduce your risks while keeping your projects on track.
Company Certifications
American National Standards Institute’s National Accreditation Board (ANAB)
Cameron-Cole is an American National Standards Institute’s National Accreditation Board (ANAB)-Accredited Greenhouse Gas Verification Body- Accreditation #0871 – for the following Organization-Level Groups: Group 1 – General; Group 2 – Manufacturing; Group 3 – Power Generation; Group 4 – Electric Power Transactions; Group 5 – Mining and Mineral Production; Group 7 – Chemical Production; Group 8 – Oil and Gas Extraction Production and Refining including Petrochemicals; and Group 9 – Waste. We provide greenhouse gas emission inventory verification services to organizations in voluntary or regulatory programs that require Verification Bodies (VBs) to carry such accreditation. ANAB is a private, nonprofit membership organization that has served as administrator and coordinator of the U.S. private sector voluntary standardization system for more than
British Columbia Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act, Reporting Regulation
British Columbia’s (B.C.) Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Cap and Trade) Act, passed in May 2008, authorizes hard caps on GHG emissions, making B.C. the first Canadian province to introduce such legislation. It also authorizes the GHG Reporting Regulation, which was enacted in November 2009. The GHG Reporting Regulation sets out the requirements for B.C. facilities with GHG emissions to report these emissions to the B.C. Ministry of Environment each year. Cameron-Cole is recognized by the B.C. Ministry of Environment as a GHG verification body.
California Air Resources Board
Mandatory Reporting of GHG Emissions Regulation
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) requires reporting of GHG emissions by major sources including electricity generators, industrial facilities, fuel suppliers, natural gas suppliers and electricity importers under the Regulation for the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (MRR).
Over the past 15 years, Cameron-Cole has been among the most active verification bodies in this program. Our organization is accredited by the California Air Resources Board to provide verifications services to all regulated entities within the program.
Compliance Offsets Program
California’s Cap-and-Trade Regulation establishes a declining limit on major sources of GHG emissions throughout California. Under the Cap-and-Trade Program, covered entities may use compliance offset credits to satisfy a small percentage of their overall compliance obligation. The California Air Resources Board issues ARB Offset Credits to qualifying projects that reduce or sequester GHG pursuant to six Compliance Offset Protocols.
Cameron-Cole is accredited to verify compliance offsets with sector specialties in Livestock and Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) projects.
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
The California Air Resources Board identified the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) as one of the nine early action measures to reduce California's GHG emissions under the AB 32 Scoping Plan. The LCFS is designed to decrease the carbon intensity of California's transportation fuel pool. The LCFS regulation was approved in 2009, and implementation began on January 1, 2011.
Cameron-Cole is accredited to verify fuel pathways, alternative fuel transactions and petroleum-based fuel reports.
The Climate Registry
The Climate Registry (TCR) is a nonprofit collaboration among North American states, provinces, territories, and Native Sovereign Nations that sets consistent and transparent standards to calculate, verify, and publicly report greenhouse gas emissions into a single registry. Cameron-Cole joined The Climate Registry as a Founding Member in December 2007.
Cameron-Cole is an approved verification body and technical assistance provider for TCR members. Cameron-Cole is among the most active verification bodies within TCR’s program.
Oregon Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program Verification
The Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) approved Oregon's original greenhouse gas reporting rules in 2008 and updated those rules most recently in 2020. These rules govern the collection of annual greenhouse gas emissions information from the state's largest sources. Oregon requires third-party verification data for the 2021 calendar year to be submitted beginning in the spring of 2022.
Cameron-Cole was among the first group of companies to become an approved verification body for the Department of Environmental Quality Oregon’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program in December 2021. Cameron-Cole is accredited to provide verification services for all emission sources and for all industrial sectors under Oregon’s program including stationary combustion sources, electricity suppliers, liquid fuel suppliers, natural gas suppliers, natural gas systems, and facility process emissions.
Washington Department of Ecology
In Washington, businesses that emit more than 10,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MT CO2e) per year are required to report their emissions to the state. In 2022, the GHG Reporting regulation was updated to add a third-party emissions verification requirement for reporters over 25,000 MT CO2e.
Cameron-Cole is accredited to verify entities reporting under General Stationary Combustion and holds sector specializations in Transactions and Oil & Gas in Washington’s program.
In addition to the regulatory and voluntary programs listed above, we provide independent verification services in accordance with ISO 14064-Part 3 for GHG inventories compiled using the WRI/WBCSD’s GHG Protocol: A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard and Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard.
*Cameron-Cole only offers professional services in jurisdictions where we have proper authority, a list of active licenses is available.