Environmental Working Group (Frly Filed as Environmental Workng Grp Action Fund)
District of Columbia
8 filings from 1 registrant · 2012–2013 · latest filed Jan 16, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$155K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$155K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR
8 filings
$155K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
8 filings
$155K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
S. 3240112th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20124 filingsthrough 2012
S. 954113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20133 filingsthrough 2013
Kelly Rucker BingelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Senator Blanche Lincoln13 filingsthrough 2013
Brian WildMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Senior Advisor, Office of Speaker John Boehner ; ; Deputy Assistant for Leg Affairs, VP Cheney ; ; Chief of Staff, Rep. Pat Toomey ; ; Legislative Assistant, Sen. Hank Brown13 filingsthrough 2013
David CastagnettiMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Rep. Norm Mineta; EA, Rep. Ed Markey4 filingsthrough 2013
ALLEN L THOMPSON iiiMehlman Consulting, Inc.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
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: environmental-working-group-frly-filed-as-environmental-workng-grp-action-fund.
8 filings
$155K on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO
4 filings
$115K 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.
113th Congress
Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013
2 filingsthrough 2013
H.R. 8112th CongressAmerican Taxpayer Relief Act of 20122 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2642113th CongressAgriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 20131 filingthrough 2013
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.
Covered position: Security
4 filingsthrough 2013
Charles WootersMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Speaker; Chief of Staff, Rep. Louise Slaughter4 filingsthrough 2013
Dean RosenMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Health Policy Dir, Sen. Majority Leader Frist; Staff Dir, ; ; Cmte on Ways & Means, Subcmte on Health; Health Policy ; ; Coordinator & Counsel, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res ; ; Counsel & Prof Staff, Sen Cmte on Labor & Human Res, ; ; Subcmte on Disability Policy; Case Worker, Rep. R. Boschwitz1 filingthrough 2013
David R ThomasMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff, Rep. Lofgren; Dir of Congressional Rels, FTC ; ; Dep Dir of Leg Affairs, VP Gore; Staff Asst, Sen. Metzenbaum1 filingthrough 2013
Elise Finley PickeringMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Ex Dir, House Republican Policy Cmte; Chief of Staff, ; ; Rep. John Shadegg, LA, Rep. Dannemeyer; LD, Rep. Bartlett1 filingthrough 2013
Stacey RampyMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: LD, Rep. Eshoo; LA, Sen. Torricelli; LA, Sen. Boxer1 filingthrough 2013
Alex VogelMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Chief Counsel, Sen. Majority Leader Frist1 filingthrough 2013
Bruce MehlmanMehlman Consulting, Inc.Covered position: Asst Sec of Commerce for Tech Policy; General Counsel ; ; and Policy Director, House Republican Conference1 filingthrough 2013
Covered positions · 12 of 12 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
