The Coalition for Green Capital this week announced that it has hired Meghan Conklin, a former policy adviser to U.S. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and a senior staff member in the Obama administration, as its policy director.
The Coalition for Green Capital is a non-profit with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., that works with governments to establish green bank finance institutions to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technology.
Conklin was most recently a policy adviser to Van Hollen for energy, environment and agriculture. Van Hollen has been introducing legislation to create a national green bank since 2009, when he was a member of the House.
Conklin also served in a variety of roles in the Obama administration, including as deputy assistant secretary for Transmission Permitting in the Office of Electricity at the Department of Energy, associate deputy secretary at the Department of Interior, and chief of staff to the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Conklin has also served in senior roles on the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
“We are so fortunate to have Meghan join our team at this crucial moment, with bipartisan green bank legislation moving forward in Congress as part of the proposed infrastructure investment package,” Coalition for Green Capital Executive Director Jeffrey Schub said in a statement. “Meghan has years of experience on national green bank policy, advising Senator Van Hollen and continuing that office’s years of leadership on this topic. She is joining our team at just the right moment.”
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Founding Editor Josh Kurtz is a veteran chronicler of Maryland politics and government. He began covering the State House in 1995 for The Gazette newspapers, and has been writing about state and local politics ever since. He was an editor at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, for eight years, and for eight years was the editor of E&E Daily, which covers energy and environmental policy on Capitol Hill. For 6 1/2 years Kurtz wrote a weekly column on state politics for Center Maryland and has written for several other Maryland publications as well. Kurtz regularly gives speeches and appears on TV and radio shows to discuss Maryland politics.
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