Lobbyist

America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) Wednesday announced that Martin J. Durbin, a top lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute (API), has been named president and CEO, effective May 1. Durbin comes to ANGA after serving as executive vice president at API, where he led advocacy efforts on behalf of the oil and gas industry.

The solar energy industry’s chief lobbyist called for a full-court press in the days and weeks ahead to urge Congress to pass an energy bill this year, and longer-term for solar to assert itself as a listened-to voice in Washington, DC. Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), made these comments last Tuesday in what he called the largest U.S. solar meeting ever in Long Beach, CA.

A former pipeline lobbyist has been tapped to steer the NaturalGas Supply Association (NGSA) back on course following the scandalin which its former president, Nicholas J. Bush, allegedly swindled$2.8 million from the group.

A former pipeline lobbyist has been tapped to steer the NaturalGas Supply Association (NGSA) back on course following the scandalin which its former president, Nicholas J. Bush, allegedly swindledit out of about $2.8 million.