ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND — Federal Lobbying Profile

The register keeps a separate record of this client for every firm that files for it and every spelling of its name. All 40 of its records are shown together here.

Filings

742

Filed by

Reported in-house

$22,889,561

Reported by firms

$12,741,750

These two are not added together. An organisation lobbying for itself reports its own spending, and the firms it retains report what they were paid; the rules ask the first to include the second, but filings do not always do so and a filing gives no way to tell. Each is shown as reported.

Reported lobbying by year

The larger of in-house and firm-reported each year, $ millions 2007 to 2026

Filings

742 filings, newest first.

Filing	Filed by	Amount
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	PRIME TRANSATLANTIC, LLC	$20,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	ESP ADVISORS, LLC	$140,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND	$216,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	CAPITOL STRATEGIES, LLC	$10,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	TIBER CREEK GROUP	$40,000 reported
3rd Quarter - Report 3rd Quarter 2026	THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	$30,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	PRIME TRANSATLANTIC, LLC	$20,000 reported
Registration 3rd Quarter 2026	THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	— reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND	$360,000 reported
2nd Quarter - Report 2nd Quarter 2026	TIBER CREEK GROUP	$40,000 reported

Filed by

Each firm that has reported for this client, and the client itself where it lobbies in-house, with the reports filed and the amounts they disclose.

Firm	Reports	Amount
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND In-house	77	$22,889,561
TIBER CREEK GROUP	56	$2,880,000
K&L GATES, LLP	67	$2,370,000
ESP ADVISORS, LLC	18	$1,645,000
WEST FRONT STRATEGIES LLC	17	$890,000
LIBERTY PARTNERS GROUP, LLC	20	$640,000
THE CJR GROUP, INC.	12	$430,000
CAPITOL STRATEGIES, LLC	41	$388,000
EMERGENT STRATEGIES	11	$360,000
CONSERVATION PATHWAYS, LLC	56	$340,000
MR. THAD HUGULEY	24	$328,500
OLDAKER GROUP, LLC	11	$310,000
OCEAN CHAMPIONS	36	$301,750
PRIME TRANSATLANTIC, LLC	14	$280,000
LIGHTHOUSE CONSULTING GROUP, LLC	6	$227,500
MCDONALD HOPKINS GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES, LLC	6	$190,000
THOMPSON CONSULTING GROUP	14	$130,000
SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS	10	$120,000
FGS GLOBAL (US) LLC (FKA FGH HOLDINGS LLC)	4	$120,000
KRIS BALLIET	5	$100,000
MONUMENT ADVOCACY	4	$100,000
SCHIFF & HARDIN LLP	11	$85,000
COLLINS CONSULTING	7	$80,000
ANNDYL POLICY GROUP, LLC	15	$70,000
POLSINELLI PC	3	$60,000
GRINDSTONE CONSULTING (FORMERLY KNOWN AS STEPHEN DONCHES II)	5	$50,000
THE CLARK GROUP, LLC DBA VELA ENVIRONMENTAL	22	$40,000
ALLIANCE GROUP	12	$40,000
VAN SCOYOC ASSOCIATES	1	$40,000
YVONNE NANASI	8	$31,000
PINE STREET STRATEGIES	6	$30,000
THE RUSSELL GROUP, INC.	1	$30,000
AJW, INC.	5	$10,000
ML STRATEGIES, LLC	4	$10,000
MERCHANT STRATEGIES LLC	4	$10,000
RICK SWARTZ & ASSOCIATES	1	$5,000
MINDSET ADVOCACY, LLC	18	—
RANDOLPH E. CLOUD & ASSOCIATES	6	—
THE JOHN TRUSCOTT GROUP, LLC	4	—

Issues lobbied

How many report sections named each issue, counting the current version of each report.

Issue	Code	Mentions
Environment/Superfund	ENV	323
Natural Resources	NAT	215
Budget/Appropriations	BUD	207
Marine/Maritime/Boating/Fisheries	MAR	112
Agriculture	AGR	92
Clean Air and Water (quality)	CAW	86
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code	TAX	59
Chemicals/Chemical Industry	CHM	47
Energy/Nuclear	ENG	40
Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.)	FOO	32
Transportation	TRA	25
Fuel/Gas/Oil	FUE	22
Aviation/Airlines/Airports	AVI	21
Civil Rights/Civil Liberties	CIV	8
Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation	RES	6

Bills named in its filings

Bill numbers found in the filers' descriptions, most often named first.

Bill	Congress	Times named
H.R. 5376	117th	21
H.R. 3063	113th	16
H.R. 3814	116th	14
S. 2418	116th	14
H.R. 2454	111th	14
S. 1400	112th	13
H.R. 3096	112th	13
H.R. 4690	117th	12
H.R. 200	115th	12
S. 2130	117th	11
H.R. 748	116th	11
S. 3548	116th	10
H.R. 2	116th	10
H.R. 2772	112th	10
H.R. 2304	112th	10
S.J.Res. 14	117th	9
S. 1520	115th	9
H.R. 4660	113th	9
S. 2437	113th	9
S. 2323	112th	9
H.R. 5326	112th	9
S. 373	118th	8
H.R. 913	118th	8
S. 2657	117th	8
H.R. 4447	117th	8

From reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. Firms report what each client paid them; an organisation lobbying for itself reports its own expenses. Amounts count the current version of each report once.