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The Energy 202: New clean energy lobbyists line up sway Biden administration Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck It's a new year and a new president is about to take office. Right on cue, a new cohort of lobbying groups is setting up shop in Washington to influence the incoming administration's agenda for tackling climate change. At least two energy trade organizations — one focused on the power sector, the other on automobiles — have launched in recent weeks to make sure their members benefit from the federal government’s amped-up effort to combat global warming...

Major U.S. companies are lobbying in a scrum for early vaccine Christopher Rowland, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Jacob Bogage, Abha Bhattarai and Laura Reiley, The Washington Post Dec. 20, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Uber and Lyft, which consider their drivers independent contractors, not employees, are making their size and organization a key part of the appeal for prioritization.  (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)Josh Edelson / AFP / Getty Images 2019 Companies across America - from Amazon and Uber to railroads and meatpacking plants - are lobbying states and the federal government to p...

The Energy 202: Biden's choice of ex-Michigan governor as energy secretary points to focus on electric cars Dino Grandoni with Alexandra Ellerbeck President-elect Joe Biden’s choice of Jennifer Granholm to be his energy secretary is a sign the president-elect’s team will try to spur automakers to sell cars that need little to no gasoline. The relationship that Granholm, the former two-term governor of Michigan, has with Detroit automakers may prove crucial to the incoming administration’s effort to cut climate-warming emissions spewing from the millions of cars and ...

POLITICO Sign up for POLITICO Playbook today. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Updated Presented by Facebook The Big Four met on and off for more than three hours Tuesday night in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s conference room in the Capitol. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY HERE’S WHAT WE CAN SAY at this earl...

The Health 202: It's the day of reckoning for Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine Paige Winfield Cunningham with Alexandra Ellerbeck Just hours from now, an advisory panel could clear the Food and Drug Administration to hit “go” on distributing the first coronavirus vaccines to Americans. The major step toward approval comes not a minute too soon: a record 3,140 people died yesterday in the U.S. of the novel coronavirus in what public health officials are warning is expected to be a grim winter and holiday season in this country. It’s a pivotal moment and one of particula...