• EPA's Pretreatment Program (40 CFR Part 403) including provisions related to indirect discharges to publicly owned treatment works.
• Proposed Shop Towel Rule of 2003 as well as EPA's revised Risk Assessment for Shop Towel Rule.
• Guidance regarding deduction and capitilization of expenditures related to tangible property.
• Issues related to nonlyphenol ethoxylate including a Federal Register notice on July 10, 2007 (submitted comments to EPA), a Sierra Club / Unite Here Petition to EPA related to nonlyphenol ethoxylate as well as and joining EPA's Design for the Environment Safer Detergent Stewardship Initiative.
• H.R. 800 / S. 1041 the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 sponsored by Rep. Miller and Sen. Kennedy, respectively. The bill would allow union barganing units to organize by using a "card check" process rather than the existing secret ballot approach.

Duration: January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009

General Issues: Clean Air & Water (Quality), Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear), Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Environmental/Superfund, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $150,000 (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: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury - Dept of, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate