Joel Beauvais

Job Title: 
Majority Counsel to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Organization: 
U.S. House of Representatives
Conversation: 
Energy Policy in Light of a New President & Congress

Joel Beauvais is Majority Counsel to the House Select Committee on
Energy Independence and Global Warming, where his portfolio runs the
gamut of domestic and international energy and climate issues. He is
the principal drafter of H.R. 6186, the Investing in Climate Action and
Protection Act ("iCAP"), a comprehensive economy-wide climate bill
sponsored by Select Committee Chairman Edward J. Markey. Prior to
joining the Select Committee staff, Mr. Beauvais was an associate with
the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Latham & Watkins
LLP. As a member of Latham's Environment, Land and Resources and
Litigation Departments, he represented leading industry clients on a
broad range of environmental, administrative law, and constitutional
matters. Before joining Latham, Mr. Beauvais served as a law clerk to
Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit and then to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He
graduated summa cum laude from the New York University School of Law in
2002, and was a Postgraduate Fellow at the NYU Center for Environmental
and Land Use Law from 2003-2004. He holds a B.A. in political science
from Yale University