• Support for research and development of advanced biofuels (HJRes 101, HJRes 105, HR 3082)
• Support for research and development of advanced biofuels (HJRes 101, HJRes 105, HR 3082) long term contracting authority for fuel purchasing (S. 3807, HR 6554)
• EPA rulemaking on the renewable fuel standard, addition of algae-based fuels to the cellulosic biofuels requirements (HR 3460), support for research and development of advanced biofuels (S. 3606, S. 2625)
• Climate change legislation (HR 2454, S. 1733) and provisions relating to biofuels, indirect land use change, and the renewable fuel standard.
• Estension and expansion of tax credits for biofuels, application of cellulosic credit to algae (S. 1250, HR 4168, HR 3460, HR 3985, S. 3738), investment tax credit or advanced biofuels facilities (HR 5142); tax incentives for biobased products

Duration: October 1, 2009 to April 1, 2015

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $272,000 (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 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Defense - Dept of (DOD), Energy - Dept of, Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), U.S. Senate,