• Issues related to Department of Interior appropriations budget and related U.S. Forest Service budget; FY2016 Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency Appropriations bills -- S 1645, HR 2822; issues related to funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund; issues related to 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Bill, HR2029.
• Issues related to pesticides and general NPDES permits, biomass emissions in relation to Clean Air Act carbon neutrality, Working Forests for Clean Energy Act -- S.1284, and EPA's Waters of the U.S. Rule.
• Issues related to: renewable energy, biofuels, biomass and bioenergy technologies; the carbon neutrality of biomass energy; EPA treatment of biogenic carbon in regulatory proceedings, building energy code programs; North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, HR 8; building with wood; and federal procurement environmental labels and forest certification.
• Issues related to Endangered Species Act, climate change and carbon sequestration, forest certification, energy efficiency,and taxpayer-funded construction of buildings.
• Issues related to the management, maintenance and harvest of private timberlands, the management of federal forest lands.
• Legislation and regulation pertaining to the taxation of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), discussions related to tax extenders legislation; The Protecting American from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015.
• Issues related to truck weights on federal highways; Safe, Flexible, and Efficient (SAFE) Trucking act, HR 3488.
• Issues related to the agreement between Canada and the United States amending the Softwood Lumber Agreement.
• Issues related to the H2B immigration guestworker visa program.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to February 19, 2016

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund, Natural Resources, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Transportation, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Agriculture

Spending: about $2,170,000 (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 2008: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), White House Office, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Defense - Dept of (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), U.S. Senate,, Energy - Dept of, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA),, Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Treasury - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR),, Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers)