• Opposition to PennEast pipeline application (pending at FERC), and improvements to Federal oversight and management of natural gas pipelines approval process. Support for HR 2649 and similar efforts to reform FERC pipeline approvals processes to better protect environment and public interest/need considerations. Limit bad language/legislation in these topic areas in pending comprehensive energy legislation in the House and Senate or independent bills potentially moving separately from comprehensive energy legislation, such as HR 2910.

Duration: January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2017

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)