Ms. Shelley Fidler

Council Member Biography

Shelley Fidler is Principal at Van Ness Feldman in Washington, DC, where she counsel on legislative proposals on electricity, green buildings, energy efficiency, and clean diesel engines. Previously, she served as Principal Deputy at the White House Climate Change Task Force, where she was broadly responsible for overseeing the energy and environmental domestic policy initiatives. Ms. Fidler served concurrently as Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy, performing special assignments for the Deputy Secretary of Energy and the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. She also served as the Chief of Staff to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), where she was responsible for helping to formulate Administration policy, and resolving conflicts on environmental and natural resource issues as diverse and contentious as electricity restructuring, clean air, global warming, forest management, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, sustainable development, MTBE, and brownfields. Ms. Fidler also served as the Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives and as Assistant to the Chairman for Policy for the House Subcommittees on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels and Energy and Power for Congressman and Subcommittee Chair Philip Sharp (D-IN). (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

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Principal, VAN NESS FELDMAN, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION