• FY 2011 Department of Energy Alternatives Fuel Funding Opportunities

Duration: November 1, 2007 to June 30, 2011

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Budget/Appropriations, Housing, Transportation, Railroads, Aviation/Aircraft/Airlines, Homeland Security, Environmental/Superfund, Roads/Highway, Health Issues, Urban Development/Municipalities, Economics/Economic Development

Spending: about $140,000 (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 2007: Energy - Dept of, Transportation - Dept of (DOT), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Natl Park Service (NPS), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Economic Development Administration, Y Y Federal Aviation Administration