Shelley Fidler

At Van Ness Feldman, Ms. Fidler has supported coalitions concerned about legislative proposals on electricity, green buildings, energy efficiency, and clean diesel engines; worked with and trained clients in effective advocacy; brought former adversaries to new, constructive relationships; and assisted an organization to manage its explosive growth. From 1995 to 1998, Ms. Fidler served as the Chief of Staff to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). During her tenure, she was responsible for managing the CEQ, 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, American Heritage Rivers, sustainable development, MTBE, designation of national monuments, and brownfields. Ms. Fidler 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). While on Capitol Hill, she worked on legislation and policy development in the areas of natural gas, coal, electricity, synthetic fuels, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, clean air, acid rain, superfund, automobile fuel economy and emissions, pipeline safety, and nuclear energy, among other matters.