The US Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to review its PR, advertising and marketing business in support of the Energy Star program.
The EPA's Office of Air Programs, Climate Protection Partnership Division, which administers voluntary pollution prevention efforts, expects to award a one-year base contract with four option years with a size standard of $14M per year.
The work covers PR and media relations, new media, advertising, educational outreach, strategic planning, market research and related disciplines to support Energy Star, the energy efficiency program for consumer products that originated in the US and went global.
The Cadmus Group is the incumbent on a pact expiring on Aug. 28, 2016.
An RFP is anticipated to be issue in March.
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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