WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, announced the Committee’s new Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Environment, Byron Brown.  

Subcommittee on Environment 

Chief Counsel – Byron Brown  

Byron Brown will serve as Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on Environment. Most recently, Byron served as Assistant General Counsel at the American Chemistry Council and has extensive Capitol Hill and Executive Branch experience, including as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also served as Senior Counsel for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works under Chairman Jim Inhofe, where he worked on issues involving contaminated sites, waste, recycling and mining and was the lead author of the coal ash provisions included in the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (PL 114-322). Byron has also served as Senior Counsel and Director of Oversight for the House Committee on Natural Resources under Chairman Doc Hastings, as an attorney in private practice at a law firm in Washington, D.C., and a career attorney at EPA.   

Byron is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law and has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire. 

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