Background:

Brian Granahan is staff attorney and clean energy advocate with Environment Illinois.  Brian’s work focuses on increasing the prevalence of energy efficiency and clean & renewable energy statewide.  Most recently, Brian has been working with Illinois state legislators in an effort to bring statewide residential energy efficient building codes to Illinois and to pass California’s Clean Cars legislation in Illinois.  Prior to joining Environment Illinois, Brian was a research assistant with Professor Arthur R. Miller of Harvard Law School and an attorney in the intellectual property litigation group of the Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin LLP, where he was winner of the 2004 Thomas H. Morsch Award for pro bono service.  Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa and a Juris Doctor degree from New York University’s School of Law.