Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page

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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

Support S. 401 & H.R. 924 Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act, 30% ITC for the first 3,000 megawatts of offshore wind service, incentivizing development and rewarding the first movers in the industry.
Support S. 1392, Energy Savings & Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013 to promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry.
Support S. 329, Sustainable Energy Act to eliminate certain fuel subsidies and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain energy tax incentives.

Support S. 332, Climate Protection Act to address climate disruptions, reduce carbon pollution, enhance the use of clean energy, and promote resilience in the infrastructure of the United States, and for other purposes.

Oppose all efforts to approve the construction, operation, and maintenance of the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.

Support the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan making climate change a top priority through EPA setting standards reducing carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, rejecting dirty fuels starting with the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and elevating climate changes impacts and solutions in the public discourse.

Support for the Department of the Interior to continue promoting offshore wind energy.

Work to stop efforts to weaken S. 2074, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, to promote energy savings in residential and commercial buildings and industry through modernized building standards, federal-state partnerships, and manufacturing incentives.

Oppose H.J. Res. 64 and S.J. Res 30, resolutions of disapproval on the EPAs proposed standards limiting carbon pollution from future power plants.

Support the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act, extending incentives to clean energy, including extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC), Investment Tax Credit (ITC), and tax credits for energy efficiency.

Oppose H.R. 3826/S.1905, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, that blocks all EPA actions to reduce carbon pollution from power plants.

Oppose draft legislation led by Representative Whitfield and Senator Manchin to gut the EPAs ability to reduce harmful carbon pollution from power plants the nations largest source of emissions.

Support for the EPA and DOI advancing regulations to reduce methane emissions from oil and natural gas systems the largest source of methane pollution in the U.S.

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), State - Dept of (DOS), White House Office

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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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

Support the EPA taking actions to protect communities and ecosystems from mountaintop removal mining.

Support for the Environmental Protection Agency to use its authority under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act to protect Bristol Bay from large-scale mining projects like the Pebble Mine.
Support for H.R. 1921, the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2013, which would require disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluids and would remove the oil and gas industrys exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Work to strengthen S. 1009, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, to update the Toxic Substances Control Act to better protect public health and the environment from toxic chemicals.

Opposition to the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013, H.R. 3080, specifically the harmful provisions that limit public participation in the federal decision-making process, degrade environmental review, and undermining the National Ocean Policy.

Opposition to H.R. 2641, the Responsibly and Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2013, which would severely undermine the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and, consequently, the quality and integrity of federal agency decisions.

Encourage the EPA to strengthen risk prevention practices at chemical management facilities to protect public health and safety.

Opposition to damaging environmental policy riders being attached to legislation addressing the debt ceiling.

Opposition to H.Con.Res. 96, Rep. Paul Ryans budget for fiscal year 2015, which slashes funding for core domestic programs including our national parks, our environmental protections, our critical infrastructure as well as energy and health research far below crippling sequestration levels.

Oppose H.R. 3830 and S 1900, The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act, which would revive the outdated and unsound 2002 Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority mechanism, undermining Congress ability to ensure trade agreements do not negatively impact our public health and environment laws and regulations.

Oppose the Chemicals in Commerce Act discussion draft, a TSCA reform proposal that would rollback EPAs current limited authority to regulate dangerous chemicals in commerce while also preempting states from taking actions to protect their citizens from toxic chemicals.

Oppose the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act, a Magnuson-Stevens Act reform proposal that would reverse the progress made in restoring Americas fisheries by extending overfishing on the most vulnerable fish populations, undermine the scientific basis for fisheries management, and restrict public access to vast amounts of fisheries data.

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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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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

Support H.R. 1175, the FRESHER Act that closes loopholes in the Clean Water Act for hydraulic fracturing drilling operations.
Support H.R. 1154, the BREATHE Act that closes loopholes in the Clean Air Act for hydraulic fracturing drilling operations.

Support the EPA protecting communities from water pollution through issuing a strong stormwater rule.
Oppose H.R. 2279, the Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations Act of 2013, to amend RCRA and CERCLA to remove critical federal protections for communities impacted by the use and disposal of hazardous and solid wastes by eliminating the basis for lawsuits ensuring the creation of protective standards and reduces liability for cleanups.

Support the EPA reducing air pollution by establishing strong ozone standards and finalizing vehicle tail pipe emission (Tier 3) standards.

Support H.R. 2983, Safe Hydration is an American Right in Energy Development (SHARED) Act, which requires testing of water sources near planned fracking sites before fracking occurs to establish baseline conditions and determine the source of any water contamination.

Oppose the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) proposal to delist the coalbed methane extraction industry and to discontinue Effluent Guidelines (ELGs) rulemaking around wastewater treatment technologies for coalbed methane extraction.

Support the EPAs on-going revisions to the Onshore Oil and Gas ELGs to address pollution from the unconventional oil and gas extraction industry but urge EPA to include not just shale gas wastewater, but all oil and gas exploration, stimulation and extraction techniques which can cause surface or groundwater pollution, in these revisions.

Support the EPAs Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters scientific assessment report regarding the connection between small streams and wetlands and downstream water sources.

Encourage the EPA, Department of Interior, and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to update their regulations and policies regarding onshore and offshore methane air pollution from oil and gas drilling.

Support the Administrations implementation of its Methane Strategy as part of its Climate Action Plan.

Support EPAs efforts to develop a strong rule to regulate the disposal of coal ash under RCRA that has protective standards, federal enforceability, and addresses legacy sites.

Work to improve S. 2016, the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014 by removing problematic provisions that raise significant environmental concerns.

Opposition to H.R. 3964, the so-called Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act, which would eliminate state and federal environmental protections of Californias rivers, threaten water quality in Californias Bay-Delta estuary, and undermine the reliability of the states water supplies.

Oppose H.R. 3189, the so-called Water Rights Protection Act, which would undermine nearly all efforts to improve the health of the nations rivers and public lands, including National Parks, National Forests, and National Wildlife Refuges.

Oppose H.R. 2824, the misnamed Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America Act, which would reinstate a 2008 Stream Buffer Zone rule that would allow waste from mountaintop removal mining to be dumped into streams, threatening water supplies for communities in Appalachia.

Support the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers Waters of the United States proposed rule, which would clarify which waters deserve protection under the Clean Water Act.

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), Interior - Dept of (DOI), White House Office,

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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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 H.R. 139, the Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act, which would protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness.
Support for the President to continue using his authority to designate National Monuments to protect places of significant ecological, historical, and cultural value.
Opposition to H.R. 1256, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, H.R. 1294, the Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act of 2013, and a draft bill entitled the O&C Trust, Conservation, and Jobs Act, all of which would mandate intensive logging or would create timber trusts to maximize revenue production for counties.

Opposition to H.R. 818, the Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act, and H.R. 1345, the Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013, which purport to address wildfire by eviscerating longstanding common sense protections.

Opposition to H.R. 1459, the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act, which would undermine the Presidents authority under the Antiquities Act to protect objects of historical, cultural, and environmental value. Opposition to all other efforts to undermine the Antiquities Act.

Opposition to H.R. 2642, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (also referred to as the House Farm Bill) that contains radical and far-reaching anti-environmental provisions and unrelated riders.

Support for S. 954, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 (also referred to as the Senate Farm Bill), which advances conservation efforts on farms via inclusion of conservation compliance and a nationwide sodsaver provision.

Support for the Department of the Interior to maintain the integrity of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, its designated wilderness and globally significant ecological values.

Support for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to advance a public lands legislative package that protects our public lands, safeguards our national forests and waters, and maintains our bedrock federal laws that protect our special places.

Support for members of Congress signing a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell encouraging her to continue using her and the presidents authority to protect public lands as national monuments.

Opposition to H.R. 3590, the so-called Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, which contains several harmful measures that attack the National Environmental Policy Act, the Wilderness Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Opposition to H.R. 2954, a package of destructive public lands bills that includes provisions that would undermine conservation protections at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, obstruct reviews of grazing leases which are critical in protecting imperiled species such as the greater sage-grouse, and promote harmful logging.

Opposition to S. 1966, the National Forest Jobs and Management Act of 2014, which purports to make all laws unenforceable in a near tripling of logging on national forests.

Support for Rep. Keith Ellisons Wildlife Refuges and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) amendment #24 to the Sportsmen's Heritage And Recreational Enhancement Act of 2013 (H.R. 3590), an amendment which strikes the harmful NEPA provision contained in the bill and restores the voice of hunters, anglers and all wildlife supporters in major wildlife refuge decisions.

Support for S.1396, which authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award hazard mitigation financial assistance for areas affected by wildfires.

Revise farm bill reference to add in support for final Farm Bill. Support for HR 2642, the Agricultural Act of 2014, the final Farm Bill conference report, which included key conservation provisions and kept out anti-environmental riders pushed in the House-passed legislation.

17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Interior - Dept of (DOI), White House Office

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

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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.

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16. Specific lobbying issues

Support for H.R.20, the Government by the People Act, and S. 2023, the Fair Elections Now Act, that would would raise the voices of everyday people in our political system, while combating the influence of concentrated money in politics.

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. SENATE

18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area

19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None

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