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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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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2013 |
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 | 01/17/2014 |
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.
Support H.R. 1616, 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, resolution of disapproval on the EPAs proposed standards limiting carbon pollution from future power plants.
Oppose H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act of 2013, prohibiting the Administrator of the EPA from finalizing certain energy-related rules that are estimated to cost more than $1 billion.
Oppose unrelated provisions attached to legislation extending government funding or raising the debt ceiling that would create environmental debt by harming our lands and wildlife, reducing air and water quality, approving the dirty and dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, or by reducing efforts to address climate change and its numerous impacts.
Support all efforts to extend incentives to clean energies, including extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC), Investment Tax Credit (ITC), tax credits for efficient homes and appliances, and credits for hybrid medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Opposition to 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.
Opposition to H.R. 1965, the so-called Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, a bill that would prioritize drilling on our public lands over other activities such as hunting, fishing, and hiking.
Opposition to H.R. 2728, the Protecting States Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act, a bill that would prohibit the federal government from setting baseline protections from hydraulic fracturing if a state has even minimal, unenforceable guidelines in place for fracking.
Opposition to HR 1900, the so-called Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act that imposes strict, one-size-fits-all permitting deadlines, which severely limit public participation in the pipeline permitting process and allow pipeline companies to more easily acquire private land without adequate review using eminent domain authority.
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), State - Dept of (DOS), 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 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. 2609, the Fiscal 2014 Energy-Water Appropriations bill, which significantly cuts funding for clean energy and energy efficiency and included harmful riders related to protecting our nations waterways.
Opposition to H.R. 1582, legislation that undermines EPAs authority under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water Act to promulgate rules that safeguard human health and the environment. Oppose amendments on this legislation, including the Murphy amendment undermining the social cost of carbon and the Scalise amendment on a carbon tax.
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 H.R. 367 (REINS Act), a radical assault on our system of public protections that threatens vital health and environmental safeguards.
Opposition to damaging environmental policy riders being attached to legislation addressing the debt ceiling.
Support for the House and Senate Appropriations Committees identifying funds sufficient to restore the allocation to the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies to at least $30 billion for Fiscal Year 2014, an amount comparable to the FY14 Senate allocation.
Opposition to the piecemeal funding of select government programs during the October 2013 government shutdown because it is not a credible solution to this self-imposed budget crisis.
Support for the bicameral Budget Conference Committee to work together to end the sequester, restore funding for programs and agencies critical to the economy and environmental protection, and to exclude environmentally damaging riders in any funding measures.
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 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. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013, which amends RCRA to prevent regulation of coal ash, the second largest toxic waste stream in the U.S.
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.
Encourage OMB and OIRA to review the EPAs guidelines for identifying waters protected by the Clean Water Act.
Oppose H.R. 2728, Protecting States Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act, which would undercut federal management of oil and gas drilling on federal lands in favor of an inadequate patchwork of state regulations.
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.
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), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), 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 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 any legislation that would undermine the Presidents authority under the Antiquities Act to protect objects of historical, cultural, and environmental 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.
Support for finalizing the Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that includes a Wilderness recommendation for the Coastal Plain.
Opposition to certain border security provisions contained in S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, that eliminate the rule of law, elevate fencing over other security measures, and institute unnecessary provisions.
Opposition to H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, which mandates and incentivizes destructive logging and other harmful industrial activities across vast swaths of Americas public lands.
Opposition to H.R. 687, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2013, which is special interest legislation that would trade away the Oak Flat Campground and surrounding federal lands to foreign mining companies.
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 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.
Opposition to efforts to decrease the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations FY 2014 budget as it pertains to wet side programs that protect and manage ocean and coastal resources.
Support for the Department of the Interior to maintain the integrity of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, its designated wilderness and globally significant ecological values.
Opposition to H.R. 3188, the Yosemite Rim Fire Emergency Salvage Act, which waives all federal laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act.
Opposition to S. 1479, the Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Act of 2013, which mandates or incentivizes damaging logging and other intensive development of our public lands under the guise of wildfire management.
Opposition to S. 258, the Grazing Improvement Act, that would exacerbate the negative effects of public lands livestock grazing on fish, wildlife and other resources by reducing or eliminating public input and agency review of grazing impacts.
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 H.R. 3333, the Wildfire Prevention Act, legislation authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to award mitigation financial assistance in areas affected by wildfires.
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
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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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