Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: business-council-for-sustainable-energy.
$51K
fees reported
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Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee paid to an outside firm. See the full list.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
7 filings
$140K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
1 filing
$10K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
116th Congress
Federal Energy and Water Management Performance Act of 2019
13 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 5783118th CongressBlue Collar and Green Collar Jobs Development Act11 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 2664116th CongressAll-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
S. 1245116th CongressAll-of-the-Above Federal Building Energy Conservation Act of 20199 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 4017112th CongressSmart Energy Act8 filingsthrough 2012
S. 1000112th CongressEnergy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 20118 filingsthrough 2012
S. 3753118th CongressImproving State and Local Government Access to Performance Contracting Act of 20247 filingsthrough 2024
H.R. 1119th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2026
H.R. 3684117th CongressInfrastructure Investment and Jobs Act6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 5376117th CongressAn act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14.6 filingsthrough 2022
H.R. 2741116th CongressLeading Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s America Act6 filingsthrough 2020
H.R. 1629114th CongressEnergy Savings Through Public-Private Partnerships Act of 20156 filingsthrough 2015
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
18 filingsthrough 2011
Laura TierneyBusiness Council for Sustainable EnergyCovered position: Senior Policy Associate15 filingsthrough 2010
Dane FarrellCascade Associates14 filingsthrough 2025
Kate LynchCascade AssociatesCovered position: Legislative Aide for Rep. John Larson13 filingsthrough 2021
John Francis ThirolfBusiness Council for Sustainable EnergyCovered position: Policy Associate10 filingsthrough 2012
