• Contacted members of the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding legislative efforts in connection with amendments to the General Mining law, including S. 1281/H.R. 2925 - Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2023; public lands; strategic and critical minerals; climate change; post-closure mine clean-up; H.R. 209 - Permitting for Mining Needs Act of 2023; Good Samaritan and other abandoned mine reclamation and bonding legislation; provisions of the U.S. Tax Code that relate to mining; the Department of Interior Appropriations Bill; H.R. 1 - Lower Energy Costs Act; mining provisions of H.R. 3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023; and other potential legislation relating to mining/critical minerals. Contacted the Department of the Interior regarding sage grouse-related matters.
• Contacted members of the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding legislative efforts in connection with amendments to the General Mining law, including S. 1281/H.R. 2925 - Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2023; public lands; strategic and critical minerals; climate change; post-closure mine clean-up; Good Samaritan and other abandoned mine reclamation and bonding legislation; Department of Interior Appropriations Bill; and other potential legislation relating to mining/critical minerals.
• Contacted members of the House of Representatives and the Senate regarding legislative efforts in connection with provisions of the U.S. Tax code that relate to mining.
• Monitoring sage grouse conservation matters; H.R. 1 - Lower Energy Costs Act; H.R. 209 - Permitting for Mining Needs Act of 2023; Good Samaritan mining law reform bills; mining provisions of H.R. 3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023; and S. 1281/H.R. 2925 - Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2023.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Natural Resources, Environmental/Superfund, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation, Clean Air & Water (Quality), Budget/Appropriations, Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear)

Spending: about $15,696,200 (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: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Interior - Dept of (DOI), Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), State - Dept of (DOS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Interior - Dept of (DOI), Energy - Dept of, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Senate,, Interior - Dept of (DOI),