Michael Coté
President and Environmental Engineer

Michael Coté is an experienced environmental engineer in the climate change industry with skills in inventory analysis, baseline methodology development, and emission reductions calculations. He has worked in various aspects of the environmental and energy industries for the past fourteen years. For the past seven years, Michael worked as a Senior Project Manager for an EPA subcontractor specializing in various aspects of methane-to-energy projects, particularly coal mine methane recovery and use projects and the development of abandoned mine methane projects. During that period, Mr. Coté worked closely with the EPA’s Coalbed Methane Outreach Program preparing many case studies, journal articles, and white papers which highlighted different aspects of coal mine methane project development. Michael has given presentations at several international conferences on behalf of EPA, including conferences in Russia, China, Alabama, Colorado, and Washington DC.

Michael has authored several greenhouse gas emissions baseline methodologies, project design documents, and verification reports that have been submitted to U.S. EPA, UNFCCC, and Clean Air Canada. From 2000-2005, he has managed the U.S. coal emissions inventory on behalf of the U.S. EPA initiating several improvements to the methodology. Michael’s extensive background in the coal mine methane sector, combined with his unique understanding of how greenhouse gas emissions methodologies, baselines, and inventories are be developed, can provide clients with first-hand, expert knowledge when implementing emission reductions projects.