Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Black Hills Corporation
South Dakota
58 filings · 1 client · 3 lobbyists registered · 2012–2026 · latest filed Jul 17, 2026
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$3.1M
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
3 lobbyists registered
Reported 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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Energy/Nuclear
ENG · 1 client
58 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
58 filings
$3.1M on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
- Aaron Costello25 filings1 client · through 2024
- Joshua ShieldsCovered position: U.S. Senator John Thune; U.S. Senator Roger Wicker; U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem; U.S. Rep. John Thune23 filings1 client · through 2018
- Jafar KarimCovered position: US House, HHS, USDA17 filings1 client · through 2026
Covered positions · 2 of 3 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 58 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: black-hills-corporation.