This time, though, the program would devote as much as $8 billion to helping industries like coal and oil make cleaner energy.
Barring some major new problem with the economy or national security, the focus in Washington will probably shift from big bailouts of essential industries to helping industries and their workers weather the economic downturn.
Edelman specializes in helping industries with image problems; another important client is the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington lobbying group that seeks to convince Americans that oil companies care about the environment and that their profits are reasonable.
Companies like Hortonworks, Pivotal and WANdisco are helping industries from banks and utility providers, to hospitals and government agencies deploy big data strategies.
IBM Watson IoT is one of the companies that is taking strides in this field, encouraging and helping industries to adopt open standards, especially in the field of Industrial and Enterprise IoT.
It added that his "passion and tireless commitment to helping industries better serve consumers led to the creation of many innovations we all rely on today, including consumer and performance surveys, market share, department and food index, and television ratings to name a few".
