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2020 Policy and Political Challenges

        for Propane Industry







                  By: Joe Colaneri           provide policy and political        there is a road map for
                                             challenge for the propane           advocacy and leadership built
                                             industry.                           on traditional methods and
        Themes of Advocacy and                  The propane industry itself      evolving strategies.
        Leadership                           is on the cusp of a new era in
            The 2020 presidential            leadership and direction. For       Three Pillars of Advocacy
        and congressional elections          the first time in a generation,         With all this challenge and
        promise to be among the most         both the National Propane Gas       opportunity coming, it may be
        contentious and consequential        Association (NPGA) and the          useful to provide a Washington,
        in American history. Against         Propane Education & Research        D.C., process overview—that can
        the backdrop of certain              Council (PERC) are under new        help shape how the propane
        impeachment proceedings              management. Thus, the industry      industry may be able to harness
        against the president, a             finds itself having to navigate     the potential of its ideas and the
        presidential primary season in       both a changing political           power of its message in 2020
        full swing—and congressional         landscape in Washington,            and beyond.
        elections that could swing both      D.C., and new leadership and            One of the most influential
        houses of Congress toward the        direction from within.              books ever written on
        Democrats or the Republicans—           But within the conflicted,       congressional behavior was
        or split control—and the             confusing, and confounding          University of Washington
        prospect of a new president          politics in Washington, D.C.,
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