Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
West Chicago Environmental Response Trust
Illinois
9 filings from 1 registrant · 2014–2016 · latest filed Apr 20, 2016
Reported on its behalf
$50K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$50K
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.
Budget/Appropriations
BUD
2 filings
$50K 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.
Bills named in the filings
Every bill reference extracted from the filings' activity descriptions.
- H.R. 4923 113th CongressEnergy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20151 filingthrough 2014
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.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Tim Peckinpaugh K&L Gates, LLP3 filingsthrough 2014
- Dennis Potter K&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Staff Asst/LC, Senator Gramm2 filingsthrough 2014
- Cliff Rothenstein K&L Gates, LLPCovered position: Solid Waste & Emergency Response, EPA; Office Dir,Underground Storage Tanks, EPA; Office Dir, Leg Affairs &Policy Communications, FHA/DOT2 filingsthrough 2014
- James T Walsh K&L Gates, LLPCovered position: U.S. Congressman1 filing
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: west-chicago-environmental-response-trust.