Meet Our Crew

Murray Liebman founded Liebman & Associates, Inc. (“L&A”) in 1997 to provide clean energy and environmental policy and technology counsel to senior executives of organizations ranging from Fortune 100 companies to smaller entrepreneurial businesses. Liebman is a federal grant specialist with a proven Methodology for Success that spans decades. With Mr. Liebman’s support, L&A’s clients have secured well over three billion dollars ($3B) in federal government investment. This federal investment has leveraged many more billions of dollars of private sector funding for the development and deployment of next-generation clean energy materials, technologies, and infrastructure/supply chain management. Mr. Liebman’s expertise includes developing teams spanning multiple skill sets to overcome barriers and achieve advanced Cleantech project successes. Liebman has represented corporate clients such as UPS, Verizon, Rolls Royce, Southern Company, NextEra Energy, and Sprint/Nextel. L&A has secured well over one hundred US Department of Energy grants for many first-of-thier-kind technologies advancing high-availability power, grid resiliency, and decarbonization spanning a portfolio of energy and carbon-intensive industries.

Before founding L&A, Liebman served as Government Relations Director for the American Gas Association (AGA), a trade association comprised of well over 200 natural gas utilities delivering gas to more than 70 million homes and businesses in all 50 states. Together, AGA members account for more than 90 percent of the natural gas delivered in the United States. Mr. Liebman directed the Natural Gas Industry’s Research, Development and Deployment (RD&D) Initiative. This Initiative is comprised of natural gas producers, pipelines, distribution companies, and equipment manufacturers. He also served as the RD&D Chairman of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy. In these capacities, he helped establish the groups’ technology priorities and investment commitments. Mr. Liebman has testified before Congressional Committees and educated Executive Branch policy-makers at all levels.

Before AGA, Mr. Liebman served as Executive Vice President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). In this capacity, he advanced regulatory, policy, and financing opportunities to increase solar sales worldwide.

Mr. Liebman’s government and political experience is significant. He worked at the US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Interior and the White House Office of Environmental Policy. At the White House, he was responsible for co-creating the President’s Council for Sustainable Development. Mr. Liebman served three years as a Presidential appointee at DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). At DOE, he helped manage the world’s largest program developing and commercializing clean energy technologies across the power, industrial, building and transportation sectors ($2B annual budget). Liebman was also part of a small team entrusted to develop — and defend before Congress — EERE’s annual budget.

Mr. Liebman is an energy and environmental attorney. Before coming to Washington, DC, he practiced with a boutique litigation firm in his hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is admitted to practice law in New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. He earned a Juris Doctorate (JD) with honors from Tulane Law School and served as Senior Editor of the Tulane Environmental Journal. Liebman holds a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from the Georgetown University Law Center concentrating in energy and environmental laws.