• Funding for fuel cell and hydrogen activities managed by the Department of Energy. Legislative vehicles include HR 3183 and S1436.
• Legislative fix for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. Within the IRS Code, sections 30 and 25. Section 30 pertains to hydrogen refuling infrastructure and Section 25 pertains to fuel cells for residential installations.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Energy/Nuclear, Environmental/Superfund, Fuel/Gas/Oil, Transportation

Spending: about $38,000 (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 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Energy - Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)