POLITICO
Get the POLITICO Influence newsletter
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.
Presented by Coalition for App Fairness
With Daniel Lippman and Zach Warmbrodt
VENUES STILL WAITING FOR CASH AFTER LOBBYING VICTORY: When the pandemic hit last year, concert and performing arts venues banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association, which spent months lobbying Congress to help them. They succeeded in December: Congress included a grant program for shuttered venues in the Covid relief.
April 12, 2021
The Biden administration has already made a big bet on offshore wind, elevating the technology among the suite of options that deserve strategic attention. This support recognizes its potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions, create good jobs, and drive investment in associated infrastructure, especially along the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Such a correction was long overdue: at year-end 2020, the United States accounted for just 0.1 percent of the world’s installed capacity for offshore wind (versus 17 percent for onshore wind). For years, projects had languished in a regulatory process that was too slow, leaving the United States far behind China and several European countries. This may finally be changing.
POLITICO
Get the POLITICO Influence newsletter
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.
With Daniel Lippman
NEW COALITION AIMS TO DRIVE DIVERSITY ON K STREET: A group of government relations veterans is partnering up to pressure K Street and beyond to ensure that those helping shape federal and local policy better represent the diversity of the country as a whole and the constituents of politicians they’re lobbying.