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

9. Check if this filing amends a previously filed version of this report

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.

Support H.R. 601, Permanent Repeal of Oil Subsidies Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish an annual production incentive fee with respect to Federal onshore and offshore lands that are subject to a lease for production of oil or natural gas under which production is not occurring.

Support H.R. 609, End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act of 2013 to repeal fossil fuel subsidies for large oil companies.

Support for S. 307, Close Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act to close big oil tax loopholes and reduce the deficit.

Oppose H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act that would approve the construction, operation, and maintenance of the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.

Oppose S. 582, legislation approving the toxic and dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.

Support the Obama administration 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.

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, 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 for Gina McCarthy's nomination to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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.

Support H.Res. 285 expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should ban and prevent the import of shark fins from sharks caught through the practice of finning, and for other purposes.

Oppose the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013, H.R 3080, specifically the harmful provisions that limit public participation in the federal decisionmaking process and degrade environmental review.

Oppose 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.

Oppose 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.

Oppose 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.

Oppose H.R. 367 (REINS Act), a radical assault on our system of public protections that threatens vital health and environmental safeguards.

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

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 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. 2226, the Federal and State Partnership for Environmental Protection Act of 2013, which amends Section 105 of CERCLA increasing litigation that will cause delays in cleanups and establish roadblocks to listing new toxic waste sites on the National Priority List (NPL), the list of the most dangerous toxic waste sites in the nation.

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.

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, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)

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 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.

Support for amendment No. 1318 to S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, which would remove provisions that eliminate the rule of law, elevate fencing over other security measures, waste taxpayer money, and are unnecessary.

Opposition to the Corker-Hoeven amendment to S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, which would unnecessarily mandate the construction of hundreds of miles of additional double layered walls along the Southwest border and thus cause tremendous damage to the land, wildlife and communities.

Opposition to section 8203 of S. 10, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013, which would dramatically increase the areas of our National Forest System that can be treated with hazardous fuel reduction projects using HFRAs minimal and expedited environmental review, public participation, administrative appeal process, and judicial review provisions.

Support for the Department of Agriculture initiating a forest management plan amendment for the Tongass National Forest that will assure a rapid and durable transition out of the existing large-scale old growth logging program.

Oppose 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.

Oppose 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.

Oppose 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.

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

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

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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LOBBYIST UPDATE

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ISSUE UPDATE

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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS

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