Lewis Milford

Clean Energy Group | Clean Energy States Alliance
President and Founder | Founder

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Lewis Milford is president and founder of Clean Energy Group (CEG) and founder of Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), two national nonprofit organizations that work with state, federal, and international organizations to promote clean energy technology, policy, finance, and innovation. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

Mr. Milford works with many public agencies and private investors in the United States and Europe that finance clean energy. He is frequently asked to appear as an expert panelist at energy conferences throughout the United States and Europe. His articles on clean energy have appeared in many print and online publications including The New York Times, Boston Globe, The National Journal, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Huffington Post and Renewable Energy World.

Before founding these two organizations, he was Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading environmental organization, where he worked on many innovative energy policies and programs for the region, including litigation of utility rate cases and opposition to power plants. Prior to that, he was a government prosecutor for the New York Attorney General on the Love Canal hazardous waste case. Early in his career, he directed the Public Interest Law Clinic at American University Law School where he represented military veterans on a range of legal issues, including gaining compensation for their harmful exposure to Agent Orange and for the ill effects of nuclear radiation from bomb tests in Nevada and the Bikini Atoll. He is the co-author of Wages of War, a social history of America’s war veterans, originally published by Simon & Schuster and recently reissued as an Ebook by Open Road Media. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.