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Considering the IRS 45Q Tax Credit?

Lessons Learned from Life Cycle Assessment Work with Clients

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January 2026 Brown Bag Webinar Recap

The Footprint of Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing

LCASolutions

LCA as a Tool for Consensus: Lessons from Practice Across Sectors

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is often seen as a tool for quantifying environmental impacts, but in practice its greatest value may lie in building alignment. Drawing on real-world projects across agriculture, investment decision-making, and energy systems, this article explores how LCA—when paired with transparency and facilitation—can help surface assumptions, clarify trade-offs, and support consensus among diverse stakeholders.

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December 2025 Brown Bag Webinar Recap

Introduction to the Mass Balance chain-of-custody model and its developing application for LCA and EPDs

LCASustainability

What’s the Purpose of LCA, Anyway?

Life Cycle Assessment is not just a calculation exercise — it is a tool to guide decisions that reduce real environmental harm. To fulfill this purpose, LCAs must consider system-wide impacts, behavioral consequences, and the real-world outcomes that modeling choices encourage.