• Support for promotion of higher blends of ethanol; Implementation of the Renewable Fuels Standard of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 as it relates to advanced biofuel pathway designations.
• Implementation of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Title IX Energy Programs including the Bioenergy Loan Guarantee Program; Advanced Biofuel payment program and the Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

Duration: June 1, 2010 to October 3, 2011

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Agriculture, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $150,000 (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 2010: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)