About this Presenter
Eleazer is an environmental and chemical engineer with 15+ years technical, regulatory, and
R&D experience in manufacturing and chemicals. He develops life cycle models targeted at
improving environmental performance and decarbonizing the entire corporate product portfolio.
He utilizes life cycle assessment (LCA) to optimize Shaw’s library of Environmental Product
Declarations (EPDs) in support of the Cradle-to-Cradle ® (C2C) principle. He makes significant
LCA and technical expertise to the flooring industry in terms of understanding the
interrelationships among industrial ecology, circular economy, and renewable energy.
Eleazer’s research interest is on sustainable energy. He has applied a systems-level approach
to address challenges to industrial-scale adoption of drop-in aviation biofuel and other
alternative feedstocks while balancing compliance requirements, risk profiles, and sustainability
priorities in an emerging bioeconomy. He has been credited as one of the few scientists to
produce pioneering work and LCA studies on algae as a source of bioenergy. He also
researched and applied LCA on oilseed as a clean energy feedstock via sub- and supercritical
hydrothermal technology.
Eleazer serves a board member for ACLCA. He is an active member of the Industry and
Product Category Rule (PCR) Committees. Eleazer is the Co-Chair for the Uncertainty Working
Group and an active member of the Greenhouse Gas-Life Cycle Assessment (GHG-LCA) and
Circularity Working Groups. Eleazer previously served as a governor-appointed board member
for the Water and Wastewater Operators Advisory Council (WWOAC) for the State of Montana.
