Paola Pringle
Senior Environmental Engineer/Air Quality Specialist
ppringle@kbenv.com

Paola earned her B.S. in Environmental Engineering and M.S. in Management from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (formerly known as Polytechnic University) in Brooklyn, New York. She has 20 years of experience in the environmental field specializing in air permitting, regulatory compliance, air quality impact analyses, air emission inventories, and mobile and stationary source air dispersion modeling. Paola is the firm’s Air Quality Service Manager and also serves as a Senior Environmental Engineer/Air Quality Specialist.

Paola’s professional experience encompasses aviation, surface transportation, construction activities and stationary sources of emissions. These include airports of every size and function (e.g., large commercial, regional and general aviation); motor vehicles; both on- and off-road construction equipment; and power plants, manufacturing facilities and bulk storage terminals. Her expertise also extends to local, state and federal environmental studies for such regulations and policies as the National Environment Policy Act (NEPA), the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and the City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR). She is equally well versed in the federal Clean Air Act – including State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and the General Conformity Rule. 

Paola possesses excellent technical and data management skills and proficiency in federally- and state-approved environmental tools and models such as EPA’s MOVES/NONROAD, AERMOD, and CAL3QHC/CAL3QHCR; FAA’s Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT); and CARB’s EMFAC and OFFROAD models; as well as other various state and federal air emissions reporting tools. 

Among her many accomplishments while at KBE, Paola has developed processes for tracking and managing greenhouse gases (GHG) from airports and construction activities. She has also been involved in numerous successful grant awards for her clients aimed at the reduction and elimination of air emissions. 

Paola is from Italy, a former “New Yorker” and enjoys traveling with her three boys and husband Scott.