A House Energy and Commerce Committee staffer has left the Hill to become a partner with energy and environmental consulting and lobbying firm AJW Inc.
Michael Goo served as the Democratic staff director on the Energy and Power Subcommittee under Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) since late 2014. He joined the subcommittee in mid-2014 as senior energy and environmental counsel.
Goo's move to AJW marks his third departure from Congress since he first served as Democratic counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2001. He held that position for four years before switching chambers and joining the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in late 2005 as counsel. Goo was promoted to senior counsel a year later and held the position until August 2007.
Goo returned to the House in 2009, joining the now-defunct Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming before leaving again in 2011 for the Environmental Protection Agency. At the EPA, he served as an associate administrator for the Office of Policy for two-and-a-half years. In 2013, he moved to the Department of Energy as a senior adviser, yet the position lasted less than a year and Goo returned to the House in 2014.
