• Encouraging the issuance of MMS Offshore Renewable Energy Rule

Duration: December 11, 2008 to January 31, 2008

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear

Spending: about $0 (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: Interior - Dept of (DOI), Office of the Vice President of the United States, Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Energy - Dept of, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. Senate

Affiliated organizations: Babcock and Brown Wind Partners