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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Maisano">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_Maisano</a>
Until it folded in 2002, Frank Maisano worked for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Climate_Coalition" title="Global Climate Coalition">Global Climate Coalition</a>, an industry front group fighting against reforms to slow down and prevent industry pollution contributing to global climate change. He was a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Potomac_Communications_Group" title="Potomac Communications Group">Potomac Communications Group</a>, whose other clients include Con Edison, the Edison Electric Institute, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nuclear_Energy_Institute" title="Nuclear Energy Institute">Nuclear Energy Institute</a>, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was then media strategist and spokesman for the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council (ERCC), an anti-EPA lobby group for coal-burning utilities.
He has also apparently worked for <b>MTBE manufacturers</b>. In April, 2006, E magazine interviewed Maisano, reporting that he is now working with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bracewell_and_Giuliani" title="Bracewell and Giuliani" class="mw-redirect">Bracewell and Giuliani</a>, whose clients have included the ERCC along with energy giants Enron, Chevron-Texaco, Pacific Gas & Electric, Dynegy, and Southern Company. Since 2005, Maisano, representing Bracewell and Giuliani, has provided PR work for industrial wind energy developers in the mid-Atlantic states, particularly those targeting the Allegheny Front in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline">External Resources</span></h2>
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<li>Jim Motavalli, <a href="http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3151&printview&imagesoff&src=QHA072" class="external text" title="http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3151&printview&imagesoff&src=QHA072" rel="nofollow">Thank You for Emitting</a>, interview with Frank Maisano, E magazine, March/April 2006.</li>
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Washington, D.C.
T: 202.828.5864
F: 202.857.2136
E: frank.maisano@bgllp.com
Frank Maisano is a skilled media specialist with a track record of success in working with media outlets across the country. National Journal calls his impact profound, saying "people on all sides of the debate say that he has fundamentally changed the public discourse about energy in both the mainstream and Beltway media. He has outstanding relationships with most national and trade business, energy and environmental reporters, and communicates with them regularly through his widely-read, weekly energy updates.
Mr. Maisano joined Bracewell & Giuliani in 2003 after 15 years as a press secretary on Capitol Hill and as a professional media consultant specializing in energy and environment issues. He is a founder of the firm's strategic communications practice and represents wind developers, utilities, oil & gas drillers, refiners, cement companies, transmission builders and chemical manufacturers on the strategic communications aspects of an array of policy, political, legal and energy project siting issues. Mr. Maisano is also an expert in <b>crisis management</b> for corporations and institutions, having worked in many different arenas, including the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill for a number of clients.
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Currently, Mr. Maisano is an adjunct professor at The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs where he teaches public relations and government communications courses. He previously taught corporate communications and negotiations/bargaining in the MBA and graduate marketing programs at Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School. He also serves as guest lecturer on communications and environment and energy issues for several academic programs, including Northwestern's Medill School for Journalism, The American University, New York University, the College of William and Mary, and Rutgers, Colorado, Florida Atlantic, and Syracuse Universities.
Publications and Speeches
"Plugged In(opens in a new window)," Feature story on Frank Maisano, National Journal Daily, November 19, 2010.
"Thank You for Emitting," Interview with Jim Motavalli, EMAGAZINE.com.
Education
M.B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 2004
B.A., Hillsdale College, 1989
Affiliations
National Press Club
Washington Automotive Press Association</p>