Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: following up on Brian Deese
From: "Costa, Kristina" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:03:04 +0000

Never a dull moment.

From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 07:57 AM
To: Costa, Kristina
Subject: Fwd: Re: following up on Brian Deese

Thx
Glad we averted war with Iran while you were working in the White House?

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From: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Apr 3, 2015 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: following up on Brian Deese
To: "Coral Davenport" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Cc:

Coral,
How's this:
One of the items that Brian championed for the budget and State of the Union was an initiative to catalyze $2 billion of investments in clean energy innovation through a public private investment strategy. The Clean Energy Investment Initiative got left on the SOTU cutting room floor as the speech got more thematic and less a list of new initiatives. Brian was determined to get it launched and did so at his first big climate/energy public appearance at the February ARPA-E summit, with commitments from Wells Fargo, Hewlett Foundation,  UC Regents, among others to participate.
John

On Apr 2, 2015 4:59 PM, "Davenport, Coral" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Hi, John,
Thanks so much for taking the time to chat about Brian. The story's mostly set, but we're looking for one more anecdote that shows him in action on climate change. Could you think of a moment when you recall him being in the room, doing something specific on climate, as the plans were being made to pass on the reins to him? Any example you could think of would be welcome!
thanks so much,
Coral

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