• Manufacturing, workforce, and domestic content issues in climate change, energy efficiency, and infrastructure legislation, including Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Implementation of Executive Order 14057 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); Funding for Environmental Product Declarations and other issues related to federal Buy Clean implementation in legislation including the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Energy and Climate Legislation including the PROVE IT Act of 2023 (S. 1863); Treatment of steel in Buy Clean pilot programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act
• Policies to encourage increased energy efficiency in manufacturing, including the Job Creation Through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act; Efforts to promote U.S. Manufacturing Sector; Issues surrounding the development of critical infrastructure manufacturing base and importance of manufacturing to national security; Buy America policies and implementation of such polices, and funding levels, for infrastructure programs, including the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, Water Infrastructure Financing and Innovation Act program, Rural Utilities Service, and Community Development Block Grant program in bills including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169), and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (PL 117-328); Treatment of aluminum and other manufactured products in Buy America policies in legislation including the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 and potential infrastructure legislation; Implementation of Executive Order 14005 (Executive Order on Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of Americas Workers), Executive Order 14008 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad), Executive Order 14017 (Americas Supply Chains), and Executive Order 14057, (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); Implementation of melted and poured standard for steel under Buy America; Legislative efforts to promote the rebuilding and expansion of infrastructure and promoting the use of domestically produced materials; Policies to promote use of domestic materials in offshore wind projects; Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act title of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (PL 117-44); Implementation of domestic content preferences in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (PL 117-169); Treatment of aluminum and alumina in implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (PL 117-169); Policies to promote union employment in semiconductors, batteries and superabrasives supply chains; Efforts to ensure that Nippon Steels proposed acquisition of domestic steel making assets is properly reviewed by the federal government; Implementation of 45X and 48c tax credits; Federal support for development of energy-efficiency improvement projects in aluminum smelting
• Trade law enforcement; Workers' Rights in international trade; Trade issues relating to surge in importation of steel and aluminum products into the United States; Treatment of Chinese overcapacity in steel, aluminum, paper and other industrial sectors; Section 232 investigations of the impact of steel and aluminum imports on national security, implementation of relief measures and potential legislative efforts to curtail Presidential authority and negotiations with the European Union on possible adjustment measures; Support for Section 301 investigation and relief measures on Chinese intellectual property rights violations; Possible global arrangement negotiations regarding carbon intensity and non-market economic factors in steel and aluminum; Support for Eliminating Global Market Distortions to Protect American Jobs Act; Support for Rapid Response Mechanism Workers Rights cases under the USMCA; Workers rights, supporting domestic production and job creation and other issues involved in the proposed Indo-Pacific Strategy and Indo-Pacific Economic Framework; Labor and manufacturing issues in the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity; Labor and manufacturing issues in the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade; Steel and aluminum import sanctions and issues relating to Russias unprovoked invasion of Ukraine; Proposals to address circumvention and evasion of existing antidumping and countervailing duty orders, including the Fighting Trade Cheats Act of 2023 (S. 805/H.R. 2667); Treatment of critical minerals in US-Japan Critical Minerals agreement and in other potential agreements; Ensure that statutory test regarding Vietnams Non-Market Economy Status is strictly applied regarding the pending changed circumstances review; Support for Trade Adjustment Assistance Renewal; Policy Discussions regarding Generalized System of Preferences Renewal; Support for action under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to address Chinese Transportation, logistics, and maritime policies and their impact on domestic production and employment

Duration: May 1, 2006 to present

General Issues: Environmental/Superfund, Manufacturing, Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Copyright/Patent/Trademark, Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Transportation

Spending: about $1,090,000 (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 2006: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Energy - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Natl Security Council (NSC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), General Services Administration (GSA), Treasury - Dept of, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Defense - Dept of (DOD), U.S. Customs & Border Protection, State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR),, Executive Office of the President (EOP),, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Treasury - Dept of,, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS),, U.S. Senate,, Labor - Dept of (DOL),, House of Representatives,, Office of the Vice President of the United States, Y Y