Ben Finzel, who served in the Clinton Administration's Dept. of Energy, has launched RenewPR, an energy and environmental PR firm.
He served as legislative director for New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson, whom Clinton tapped as Energy Secretary.
Finzel went on to hold the communications director job for DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
The 25 year-plus veteran of Edelman, FleishmanHillard and Widmeyer Communications also was press secretary for Congressman Tim Valentine and executive VP at Glen Echo Group, a PR boutique.
Finzel's goal is to restore "common sense to communications" for companies, alliances, foundations and NGO clients.
He says RenewPR will offer "simple, direct advice from creative, knowledgeable and committed counselors unencumbered by bureaucracy and process."
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
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.
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