EcoEngineers named best verification company in North America

EcoEngineers, a clean-energy consulting, auditing and advisory firm recently acquired by leading risk-management partner LRQA, has been named the best verification company in North America by Environmental Market Rankings by Environmental Finance.

The company also earned best verification company in renewable identification numbers (RINs) as well as best verification company and renewable natural gas (RNG) markets.

The Environmental Market Rankings are based on votes from market participants and recognize leading firms across global environmental and carbon markets.

The awards highlight EcoEngineers’ continued leadership in regulatory compliance, carbon accounting and independent verification services supporting renewable fuels and low-carbon energy markets.

2026 is the company’s first time being named the best verification company in North America, which includes the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and best in the RNG market, highlighting its growing role in compliance, certification and carbon modeling across North America and Europe.

It also marks the second consecutive year receiving the best ranking in the RINs market.

“This tremendous honor is a testament to the strength and dedication of our team in supporting companies that build validated, defensible evidence for their sustainability claims,” said Shashi Menon, CEO of EcoEngineers. “Environmental markets are constantly evolving, and with that pace of change, there is greater scrutiny, higher standards and increased demand for transparency. Our team is proud to help clients navigate this complexity and close the gap between our clients’ ambition and the proof in their data—across North America and globally.”

The 2026 Environmental Market Rankings recognition underscores EcoEngineers’ commitment to delivering independent verification services that strengthen environmental markets and support the energy transition.

The rankings reinforce the market standing of their verification teams, signaling trusted expertise, consistency and independence to clients, regulators and market participants across the region.EcoEngineers supports companies to manage their sustainability reporting through second- and third-party audits, preverification, gap analyses, internal-methodology development and hot-spot mapping, among other services.

The team’s technical capabilities expanded as a result of its acquisition by LRQA and range from regulated biofuel and carbon markets around the globe including U.S. tax-credit verifications such as those under 45Z and 45V to voluntary sustainability reporting of scopes 1, 2 and 3 under various International Organization for Standardization (ISO) frameworks, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Science Based Targets initiative and Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, and more.

Services ensure compliance with regulatory programs, including the European Renewable Energy Directive, emissions trading schemes in Europe and the U.K., the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Oregon Clean Fuels Program, the Canadian Clean Fuel Regulation and others.

Through rigorous, science-based measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) protocols, the company safeguards the integrity and accuracy of clients’ sustainability declarations across environmental markets.

EcoEngineers and LRQA together are accredited by more than 45 independent accreditation bodies worldwide and conduct thousands of audits annually of biofuel, sustainability and GHG claims, and environmental-management systems.

They have a combined team of more than 1,000 auditors specializing in sustainability reporting and environmental and energy audits across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.Most recently, EcoEngineers and LRQA were approved by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials to provide certification services under the RSB standard.

This recognition places the company among a select group of organizations qualified to evaluate and certify biofuel and biomaterial companies navigating European and global renewable energy regulations.

Together, EcoEngineers and LRQA offer an integrated global assurance platform across climate, carbon, biofuels and sustainability reporting, covering regulated programs, voluntary markets and corporate ESG disclosures.