Catherine Morris, Senior Associate, Energy Program, Center for Science and Public Policy

Ms. Morris is a Senior Associate with over 25 years of experience in energy and environmental policy and stakeholder engagement. While working with Keystone, Catherine has facilitated stakeholder forums on advanced transportation technologies, electricity transmission planning and siting, assessment & remediation of US DOE contaminated sites, and state-level energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, vaccine protocols for pandemic flu.

Prior to joining The Keystone Center, Catherine worked with stakeholder and policy forums on advancing renewable energy policy in Mexico, developing state climate change action plans, integrating efficiency and renewables in air quality planning, developing utility green power marketing and state disclosure policies, addressing brownfield redevelopment and air quality implications, analyzing the costs and environmental impacts of alternative multi-pollutant strategies for the electric power sector, addressing the environmental implications of the electricity industry restructuring, reforming the Clean Air Act and resolving federal energy information confidentiality policies.

Catherine has 10 years of experience as a utility regulator for the state of Massachusetts, three years as a free lance writer for The Electricity Journal and eight years with a non-profit air quality and climate policy think tank. Earlier in her career she worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Law Institute, and Integrated Energy Systems, an energy engineering firm. She has a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary; a Master’s degree in Regional and Environmental Planning from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and facilitation and mediation training from George Mason University.