Scott Van de Mark is the Director of Special Projects with the Western Pennsylvania office of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC).  Van de Mark is a project manager for environmental quality trading and energy and climate projects with PEC.  Beginning in 2000, Van de Mark assisted the PA Department of Environmental Protection with the development of water quality trading policy and online trading tools for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in PA.  Other projects managed by Van de Mark include the ad hoc PA Climate Change Roadmap issued in 2007 and the PA DCNR Carbon Management Report issued in 2008 and more recently assisted Allegheny County and the Community College of Allegheny County with the development of Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Climate Action Plans.

Van de Mark serves as the PEC representative on the Pennsylvania Sustainable Energy Board.

From 1987-1991, Scott worked as an Environmental Scientist with Environmental Strategies Corporation (ESC), in Pittsburgh. With ESC he conducted environmental risk assessments, phase 1 site investigations and environmental monitoring programs. He has a B.A. from the University of Vermont in Economics and Environmental Studies and a M.E.S. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.