98 filings from 3 registrants · 2008–2026 · latest filed Jun 1, 2026
Reported on its behalf
$658K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$433K
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$225K
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.
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: methanol-institute.
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.
9 filings
$45K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV
7 filings
$180K on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM
6 filings
$203K 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.
114th Congress
Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act of 2015
8 filingsthrough 2016
S. 889114th CongressFuel Choice and Deregulation Act of 20158 filingsthrough 2016
H.R. 1476111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
S. 835111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.5 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2454111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2998111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 16111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 2354111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 6111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
H.R. 670111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 103111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 133111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
S. 339111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.1 filingthrough 2009
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.
7 filings
through 2012
John LynnMethanol InstituteCovered position: President and CEO6 filingsthrough 2009
Patrick DonnellyCrowell & Moring LLPCovered position: Prof Staff, US Sen Cmte on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry5 filingsthrough 2011
Clifton JacksonMethanol InstituteCovered position: Manager, Government & Public Affairs2 filingsthrough 2013
Josh TzukerCrowell & Moring LLPCovered position: Sen LA, Rep Ford; LA for Rep Lantos1 filingthrough 2013
Charles Lowrey ElkinsChuck Elkins & Associates1 filingthrough 2010
Covered positions · 8 of 9 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
