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.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Agriculture
AGR · 1 client
41 filings
$4.3M on those filings
Chemicals/Chemical Industry
CHM · 1 client
31 filings
$4M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Scott Faber30 filings1 client · through 2018
Colin O'Neil24 filings1 client · through 2021
Jason Rano19 filings1 client · through 2014
Christine SigurdsonCovered position: Policy Fellow, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Sen. Tom Harkin Chair)13 filings1 client · through 2017
Christine Hill11 filings1 client · through 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 69 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: environmental-working-group.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $8.3M in expenses.
CSP · 1 client
30 filings
$4M on those filings
Fuel/Gas/Oil
FUE · 1 client
29 filings
$3M on those filings
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)
FOO · 1 client
19 filings
$2.6M on those filings
Health Issues
HCR · 1 client
15 filings
$873K on those filings
Environment/Superfund
ENV · 1 client
12 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Natural Resources
NAT · 1 client
10 filings
$315K on those filings
Torts
TOR · 1 client
5 filings
$850K on those filings
Government Issues
GOV · 1 client
5 filings
$616K on those filings
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
RES · 1 client
4 filings
$533K on those filings
Clean Air and Water (quality)
CAW · 1 client
4 filings
$406K 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 money 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.
Libby Foley
Covered position: Intern, Sen. Mark Kirk
11 filings1 client · through 2015
Alex FormuzisCovered position: Communications Director, Sen. Jean Carnahan; Press Secretary, Sen. Kent Conrad; Deputy Communications Director & Communications Director, Sen. Frank Lautenberg10 filings1 client · through 2016
Scott Michael LavenderCovered position: Intern, Staff Asst., L.C. & L.A., Sen. Herb Kohl10 filings1 client · through 2015
Sandra Schubert7 filings1 client · through 2009
Mary Ellen Kustin6 filings1 client · through 2016
Alex RindlerCovered position: Staff Assistant & Intern, Sen. John Kerry6 filings1 client · through 2014
Sarah Grantham5 filings1 client · through 2016
Reade Wilson4 filings1 client · through 2016
None None3 filings1 client · through 2012
Melanie Benesh1 filing1 client · through 2019
Brian HeindlCovered position: Staff Asst., L.C., L.A., Approp. Dir. & L.D., Sen. Herb Kohl1 filing1 client · through 2013
Bobbie Manning1 filing1 client · through 2009
Covered positions · 6 of 17 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.
