• H.R. 2354 - FY 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations and related legislation, provisions related to federal funding for evaluating geothermal energy technology.
• Department of Energy efforts to evaluate geothermal energy technology.

Duration: March 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $10,000 (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 2011: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Affiliated organizations: Dow Lohnes PLLC

Related Foreign Entities: Mr. Ammin Wang, Chm Emeritus NovaThermal Energy, LLC (Philadelphia, USA); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 30%