CEQ hires new clean energy director

By Robin Bravender | 09/09/2024 04:24 PM EDT

Climate change expert Dan Delurey joined the White House Council on Environmental Quality on Monday. 

The Council on Environmental Quality's Washington, D.C., office on March 7, 2024.

The Council on Environmental Quality's Washington, D.C., office on March 7. Robin Bravender/POLITICO's E&E News

Climate and energy expert Dan Delurey has joined the White House’s environmental office to work on clean energy.

Delurey started Monday as director for clean energy in the Council on Environmental Quality’s Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. He’ll be “helping the team there develop strategies and plans related to decarbonization of the electricity system,” Delurey told colleagues in an email Sunday.

Delurey joins the White House environmental shop after spending more than five years at Vermont Law and Graduate School, according to his LinkedIn profile. He served as senior fellow for energy and climate at the law school’s Institute for Energy and the Environment.

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He’s also the founder of the Wedgemere Group, a Washington, D.C.-based firm launched in 2002 focused on the modernization of the electricity industry.

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