DANIEL W. ROSENBLUM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Over sixteen years experience as an energy and environmental attorney advocating for increased energy efficiency and renewable energy to reduce the environmental footprint of the energy industry, specializing in: the economic and policy benefits of energy efficiency, renewable energy and combined heat and power; electric industry restructuring policy; transmission issues; nuclear safety and economics; and emissions trading.

• Co-Founder – Carbon Tax Center
  December 2006 – Present
• Senior Attorney – Pace Law School Energy Project
  November 2001 – September 2009
• Senior Attorney – Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
  March 1997 – October 2001
• Director – Mid-Atlantic Energy Project
  (became part of the Pace Energy Project In 1995)
  December 1992 – February 1997

Over sixteen years of energy and telecommunications regulatory experience, as a commissioner in Illinois and senior staff in New York, serving on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Telecommunications Committee and as a founding member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Energy Conservation and as an attorney for the City of New York, State of New York and low-income consumers in Chicago.

• Assistant to the Director – Consumer Services Division
  New York State Public Service Commission
  August 1991 – November 1992
• Executive Assistant to the Chairman – New York State Public Service Commission
  September 1989-August 1991
• Special Counsel for Utility Regulation – New York State Department of Law
  March 1988 – September 1989
• Managing Attorney – New York City Office, Public Utility Law Project
  October 1988 – July 1987
• Senior Litigator- Affirmative Litigation Division, New York City Law Department
  December 1984 – October 1986
• Commissioner – Illinois Commerce Commission
  February 1981 – December 1984
• Staff Attorney and Utility Specialist -Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
  June 1976 – February 1981

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

• Center for Economic and Environmental Partnership
  Program Director – Alternative, Distributed and Renewable Energy Program
  October 2005 – May 2006
• Homeland Energy
  Analysis of biofuels market in New York Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont
  Winter 2005-2006
• University of Buffalo, Facilities
  Analysis of energy efficiency and renewables as alternatives to a proposed new coal- fired power plant in Jamestown, New York
  Spring 2005
• City of Chicago, Department of Planning
  Commonwealth Edison Franchise Renegotiation
  Winter 1988
• Chairman Peter Bradford
  New York State Public Service Commission, PSC Case 29484 – Long Island Lighting Co.
  Analysis of proposal to resolve Shoreham nuclear plant issue
  Fall 1987
• Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
  Expert witness in Illinois Commerce Commission Dkt. Nos. 87-0427, 88-0189, and 88-0219 – Commonwealth Edison Company and the following year in Dkt. Nos. 87-0043, 0044, and 0096 – Commonwealth Edison Company
  Spring 1987 and Fall 1988

EDUCATION

• Northwestern University School of Law
  J.D., June 1976
  Honors: Dean’s List, cum laude
• Washington University
  A.B., June 1972
  Major: Urban Studies
  Honors: Dean’s List, cum laude

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS

• Member, Town of Greenburgh Zoning Board of Appeals
  (Representative on Tappan Zee Bridge Task Force as former member of Town of Greenburgh Conservation Advisory Council)
• Board Member, Friends of Israel’s Environment, US-based support organization for Israel Union for Environmental Defense