Clean Harbors Environmental Services has hired Capitol Hill Consulting Group for DC lobbying as it helps deal with one of the worst outbreak of bird flu in US history.
The firm of former Oklahoma Democratic Congressman Bill Brewster is working the healthcare and agricultural beats on behalf of the client's effort to mop up Iowa.
The Norwell, MA-based environmental, energy and industrial services company has US Dept. of Agriculture contracts to clean up infected farms in The Hawkeye State and Minnesota.
The current avian flu outbreak infected poultry in 16 states, but has not made the jump to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other forms past flues have sickened people in China and Africa.
USDA has expressed concern over lax biosecurity in some infected areas.
In Iowa, the USDA has agreed to enforce compliances with the "clean and disinfect" line, according to Reuters.
CHCG's Jack Victory, aide to former Republican Majority Whip Tom DeLay, and David Stratton Edwards, staffer to Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole, represent Clean Harbors, which lost $7.1M on $742M Q1 revenues.
A focus on all the ways that greenhouse gases are created, not just from fossil fuels, marks the evolution from clean energy and clean tech to climate tech, according to Melissa Mahoney from V2 Communications.
Kristin Wilson-Palmer, who has been a senior VP in Edelman’s Washington, DC office since 2021, joins the Natural Resources Defense Council as chief communications officer.
Educating the next generation to the facts and science surrounding the climate crisis.
Melanie Janin, who was executive VP at Weber Shandwick, has joined Conservation International as chief communications & marketing officer.
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