Alison Kinn Bennett
Sustainability & Pollution Prevention Branch - Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Alison has focused her 25+ year career on leveraging private sector innovation and billions in federal spending to support cleaner and greener supply chains for all. She co-founded two influential networks within EPA—the Green Building Workgroup and the Sustainable Products Network—which bring together policy and technical staff to advance comprehensive, market-based approaches to further EPA’s mission. Since 2001, Alison has served in the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Program, representing EPA in the development of private sector sustainability standards within the US Green Building Council LEED MR TAG, Sustainable Sites Initiative, ASTM, NSF, and UL, among others. Alison has represented EPA on the advisory committees of the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovations Institute, Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council, ISEAL, and the UN Sustainable Public Procurement Program. In 2016, Alison and her team released Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels—a game changer in bringing clarity to the sustainability marketplace. Currently, Alison is leading implementation of EPA’s Inflation Reduction Act-funded Environmental Product Declaration Assistance and low embodied carbon materials labeling programs. Alison is a graduate of the Federal Executive Potential Program and holds a Master’s Degree in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia and B.A.s in Political Science and Geography from the University of California at Berkeley.  Alison lives in Arlington, VA with her husband, three daughters, and too many pets.