Lobbying Relationship

Client

The Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development, Inc.

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Lobbying firm

Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, LLC

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  • Issues related to the deployment of carbon management technologies. Issues related to permitting CO2 pipelines. Issues related to pipeline safety reauthorization, including H.R. 6494, The Promoting Innovation in Pipeline Efficiency and Safety (PIPES) Act of 2023 and H.R. 7655, The Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 2024.
  • Issues related to the implementation of the 45Q enhancements in the Inflation Reduction Act (Public Law 117-169). Issues related to the CCU Parity Act (S.542/H.R. 1262). Issues related to indexing 45Q enhancements for inflation.
  • Issues related to carbon management in the Fiscal Year 2025 Interior and Energy and Waste Appropriations bills.

Duration: to

General Issues: Energy/Nuclear, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $190,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

Agencies lobbied since 2023: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Bills mentioned

S.542: CCU Parity Act of 2023

Sponsor: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)

H.R.1262: CCU Parity Act of 2023

Sponsor: David Schweikert (R-Ariz.)

H.R.6494: PIPES Act of 2023

Sponsor: Sam Graves (R-Mo.)

H.R.7655: Pipeline Safety, Modernization, and Expansion Act of 2024

Sponsor: Jeffrey Duncan (R-S.C.)

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Lobbyists

Lobbyists named here were listed on a filing related to this lobbying engagement. They may not be working on it now. Occasionally, a single lobbyist whose name is spelled two different ways on filings may be represented twice here.

Lobbyist Covered positions?
M J Kenny Deputy Floor Director, Floor Assistant - Office of the Senate Democratic Whip; Legislative Aide, Legislative Correspondent - Senator Richard J. Durbin , D-IL
Lisa Kountoupes Deputy Asst to the President & House Liaison,Special Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs,Asst. Director for Legislative Affairs at OMB,Special Asst to Undersecretary,Dept of Energy,Policy Advisor to Chairman of Energy&Commerce Committee
Randi Reid Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant and projects Director, Legislative Assistant - Senator Michael Enzi, R-WY; Legislative Director - Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX
Patrick Hayes Chief of Staff, Legislative Director - Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV; Deputy Legislative Director, Legislative Assistant - Sen. Evan Bayh, D-IN; Staff Director - Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.
David Peluso Chief of Staff - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA; Chief of Staff, Communications Director, Legislative Assistant, Deputy Press Secretary and Executive Assistant - Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-FL
MJ Kenny n/a

Disclosures Filed

Once a lobbying engagement begins, the lobbyist or firm is required to file updates four times a year. Those updates sometimes change which lobbyists are involved or add new issues being discussed. When lobbyists stop working for a client, the firm is also supposed to file a report disclosing the end of the relationship.

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Registration

Source: Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate

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