Beth A. Viola is a senior policy advisor in Holland & Knight’s Washington, D.C., office where she is the chair of the firm’s Energy and Natural Resources Industry Sector Group. Possessing decades of experience in climate change and energy policy, Ms. Viola advises a range of corporate clients, coalitions and industry associations on public policy related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and the transition to a low carbon economy, including the funding and deployment of clean energy and innovative technologies and advocacy on related environment, tax, trade and appropriations issues. Ms. Viola has deep and longstanding connections with the environmental community and an impressive track record in building, managing and successfully advocating on behalf of coalitions essential to shaping legislation and regulation. Lobbying extensively before the White House, federal agencies and Congress, Ms. Viola brings together businesses and powerful third-party voices in the non-governmental organization (NGO) space to deliver policy solutions that benefit both businesses and the environment. She also provides strategic, policy and political advice to companies across the energy, transportation, industrial and agriculture sectors with an emphasis on both domestic and international climate policy. Ms. Viola has enabled her clients to impact all of the major federal energy legislation passed over the last 20 years, including most recently the Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and Energy Policy Act of 2020. She lobbies before the White House, Office of Domestic Climate Policy, National Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on implementation related to this legislation and other laws impacting the energy sector. Similarly, she has worked extensively on a variety of renewable development tax issues enacted through legislation, including the development and successful extensions of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and incentives related to biofuels, such as the biodiesel and renewable diesel tax credits.