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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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Address1 | 1920 L STREET, NW, #800 |
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City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20036 |
Country | USA |
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5. Senate ID# 71278-12
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2012 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Tiernan S. Sittenfeld, SVP for Government Affairs |
Date | 10/18/2012 |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline under review at the State Department, which would increase both our nation's reliance on polluting fossil fuels and threaten wildlife and wetlands.
Opposition to Arctic Ocean offshore drilling, which is under consideration by the Obama Administration.
Support for H.R. 3307, the American Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Extension Act of 2011 that extends the production tax credit that is especially critical to the growth of the wind industry.
Support for S. 2201, American Energy and Job Promotion Act extending the production tax credit.
Support for S. 1397, the Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act that provides an investment tax credit for the production of electricity from offshore wind.
Opposition to H.R. 4383, the House transportation bill extension that included harmful provisions approving the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, gutting safeguards to protect communities from toxic coal ash, and undermining the National Environmental Policy Act and public input in transportation projects.
Support for S. 591 and H.R. 4108 that invests $5 billion in the 48C advanced energy manufacturing tax credit.
Opposition to H.R. 6213, the No More Solyndras Act, which would ensure that large, high cost, high risk fossil and nuclear projects would remain eligible for billions of dollars of taxpayer support while shutting out many promising and less costly new clean energy projects.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Energy - Dept of, White House Office
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Opposition to H.R. 2273 and S. 1751, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, which would endanger the health of and safety of thousands of communities and fail to stimulate coal ash recycling.
Support for S. 847, the Safe Chemicals Act, to update the Toxic Substances Control Act to better protect people from toxic chemicals.
Opposition to S. 3512, the Coal Ash Recycling and Oversight Act of 2012, which would regulate coal ash less stringently than household trash, even though the health risks from coal ash include cancer, neurological disorders, birth defects, reproductive failure, asthma, and other serious illnesses.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House Office
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code CAW
16. Specific lobbying issues
Opposition to S. 1610 and H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act, which would weaken and delay clean air standards for cement plants.
Support for EPA-Army Corps of Engineers guidance and rule-making to clarify the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act, which would help protect wetlands and marginal streams that flow into sources of drinking water for millions of Americans.
Opposition to H.R. 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011, which would amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.
Support for the EPA to issue strong rules under the Clean Air Act regulating air pollution from cement kilns, industrial boilers, and utilities to in order to protect public health and the environment.
Support for the EPA to move forward with strong rules under the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Opposition to S. 1833, the Fair Compliance Act of 2011 which would block the EPAs ability to clean-up life-threatening pollution from power plants.
Support for a strong final soot standard issued by the EPA this year.
Support for banning diesel as part of EPAs draft guidance on the use of diesel in hydraulic fracturing.
Opposition to H.R. 3409, the Stop the War on Coal Act of 2012, which guts bedrock protections in the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, all of which Americans have relied on for decades to protect them from uncontrolled pollution.
Opposition to potential EPA approval of the state of Floridas proposed water quality standards that fail to protect its waters from toxic algae outbreaks.
Opposition to Shells request to negotiate a compliance order to violate air pollution standards it already agreed to meet as part of its Arctic Ocean offshore drilling program.
Opposition to H.R. 4278, the Preserving Rural Resources Act of 2012, which would increase water pollution by dramatically expanding exemptions in current law for activities that discharge dredged or fill material.
Opposition to H.R. 5961, the Farmer's Privacy Act of 2012, which is a radical restriction on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency and state pollution control officials to identify violations of the Clean Water Act by industrial livestock facilities.
Opposition to H.R. 2541, the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act, which exempts any logging operation that generates runoff from the requirement to obtain pollution-limiting permits for any discharge resulting from various logging-related activities.
Opposition to H.R. 3158, the Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act, which would treat farms that store oil or oil products differently than other similar operations for purposes of the Clean Water Acts spill prevention, control, and countermeasure requirements.
Opposition to S. 3558, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act, which is a blatant assault on the Clean Water Act that undermines the legacy of coordination and balance between federal and state governments that has resulted in significant progress towards cleaning up our nations waters.
Opposition to EPA proposal to delay the implementation of the life-saving toxics standards for cement kilns .
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House Office
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code NAT
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for H.R. 139, the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act, which designates specified lands within Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Opposition to H.R. 1408, the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Job Protection Act, which would grant unprecedented special rights to the Sealaska Corporation, a multi-million dollar Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), to log a significant portion of the last remaining large tree old-growth stands in the Tongass National Forest.
Support for Alternative C of the Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan/Environmental Impact Statement for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because it recommends Wilderness designation for the Arctic Refuges incomparable Coastal Plain Wilderness Study Area.
Opposition to H.R. 3210, the Retailers and Entertainers Lacey Implementation and Enforcement Fairness (RELIEF) Act, that would be devastating to the 2008 Lacey Act amendments that helped promote global forest conservation and limit illegal logging.
Opposition to H.R. 4089, the Sportsmens Heritage Act, which threatens the conservation of fish, wildlife, and habitats that benefit all Americans, including conservationists and sportsmen alike.
Opposition to a land exchange to facilitate the construction of a permanent gravel road between King Cove and Cold Bay, Alaska a road that would slice through the ecological heart of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and sacrifice high-quality Refuge and Wilderness lands.
Support for strengthening the Bureau of Land Managements proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands to include pre-fracking disclosure of chemicals.
Support for designation of a National Monument for the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area.
Opposition to H.R. 6082, the Congressional Replacement of President Obama's Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan, which recklessly gives away more of our coastlines to Big Oil before Congress has enacted a single safety reform following the worst environmental disaster in our nations history, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Opposition to H.R. 4402, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012, which hides the mining industrys irresponsible environmental practices from the public on the publics federally managed lands.
Opposition to various pieces of legislation that are essentially Trojan horses for mandating or incentivizing damaging logging and grazing across vast swaths of our public lands with limited or no public input, and for handing over unprecedented control of federal lands management to the states in the name of fire and insect prevention. The legislation includes H.R. 5744, the Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2012; H.R. 6089, the Healthy Forest Management Act of 2012; H.R. 4331, the National Forest Emergency Response Act; and Sections 8301-8303 of H.R. 6083, the Farm Bill.
Opposition to H.R. 5544, the Minnesota Education Investment and Employment Act, which would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to complete an expedited land exchange of approximately 86,000 acres of Minnesota School Trust Lands within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for unidentified federal lands within the Superior or Chippewa National Forests within Minnesota.
Support for a designation of a National Monument in Washingtons San Juan Islands.
Opposition to H.R. 6083 (Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2012), the House Farm Bill that drastically cut funding for private lands conservation programs and included harmful policy riders that undermine sound science and roll back our bedrock clean water and wildlife laws.
Opposition to H.R. 6233, the supplemental agriculture disaster assistance package because it disproportionately cuts conservation programs.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Interior - Dept of (DOI)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code TRA
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for transportation reauthorization legislation that reduces our nations dependence on oil, reduces pollution, and increases investments in low-carbon transportation choices, like transit, rail, biking and walking.
Support for S. 326, to establish national purposes and goals for federal surface transportation activities and programs and create a national surface transportation plan (including laying our environmental objectives such as reducing carbon pollution).
Support for H.R. 1780 and S. 1056, the Safe and Complete Streets Act of 2011, which would require that federally funded streets and highways be designed for safe use by all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, children, older individuals, and individuals with disabilities, not just cars.
Support for two proposals by the Obama administration to ensure cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas and reduce global warming pollution. These include a joint proposal from NHTSA and the EPA for the next round of clean car and light duty truck standards for model years 2017-2025 and the first-ever efficiency and global warming emissions standards for trucks.
Support for and advocacy to strengthen S. 1813, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP21).
Opposition to H.R. 3408, the PIONEERS Act, and H.R. 7, American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012together making up an extreme transportation package which would increase our dangerous dependence on oil, threaten our nations special places and coasts, end all dedicated funding for transit, biking, and walking, and gut our preeminent environmental review law.
Support for the National Surface Transportation and Freight Policy Act (Title XII of S. 1950) that helps to develop a performance-driven national transportation program.
Opposition to H.R. 4348, the House transportation extension bill that included harmful riders on the Keystone XL pipeline, safeguards protecting communities from toxic coal ash, and gutting the National Environmental Policy Act severely limiting public involvement in transportation projects.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), White House Office, Transportation - Dept of (DOT)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code GOV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Support for S. 750 and H.R. 1404, the Fair Elections Now Act, to allow candidates to rely on small contributions from individuals rather than corporate and other special interest donors and their lobbyists.
Support for H.R. 2517 and S. 1360, the Shareholder Protection Act, which would promote responsible corporate governance and ensure that political spending decisions are made transparently.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE,
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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