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Lowell Ungar has served as one of the Alliance’s two senior policy analysts and lobbyists since September 2003. He is active in all Alliance efforts to enact federal and state legislation and policies that foster energy efficiency. The issues on which he works include appropriations for federal energy efficiency programs, utility demand-side management policies, and appliance and fuel economy standards. In addition to direct lobbying, Ungar uses policy research and analysis, writing, speaking, media work, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, and other methods to advocate for sound energy efficiency policies. Prior to coming to the Alliance, Ungar served for five years as a legislative aide in the U.S. House and Senate with a focus on energy and military issues. As a legislative assistant for Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), he drafted legislation, speeches, and memos on hydrogen and fuel cell R&D, energy tax incentives, defense policy, and many other issues, often working with members of both political parties, both houses of Congress, federal agencies, and outside groups to get legislation passed. Ungar also worked extensively with local, national, and trade press. Before switching to the Senate side, Ungar served as a congressional science fellow for Alliance Vice-Chair Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), working with the House Energy and Commerce Committee on energy and environmental issues. Ungar also has more than a decade of scientific and policy research and teaching experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago, and did four years of postdoctoral research in theoretical chemistry. Before graduate school he did policy research and public education on environmental issues for the League of Women Voters and the Union of Concerned Scientists. He is the author of several scientific articles as well as policy articles and reports. Ungar lives with his family in an Energy Star-certified condominium community with ground-source heat pumps built on an urban infill site in Washington, DC. |
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