Friday, December 19, 2014

Cantwell Picks National Labs Advisor as Energy & Natural Resources Staff Director (Politico)

(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Incoming Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Maria Cantwell has picked Angela Becker-Dippmann, a former ENR and Cantwell aide, as Democratic staff director for the next Congress. Becker-Dippmann is currently a senior policy advisor at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environment Directorate, where she has been since 2011. Becker-Dippmann was an executive vice president at McBee Strategic Consulting from 2008 until joining PNNL, and before that spent eight years in the Senate, including stints as a staffer under former ENR Chairman Jeff Bingaman and as policy director to Cantwell, where she worked on the Energy Policy Act of 2005.