Mid-Year Report — WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. for WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (2007)

Firm

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

Client

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

Income

—

Expenses

$250,000

What was lobbied

4 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Energy/Nuclear ENG

HR 6 relating to inclusioin of waste-to-energy, open-loop biomass, and landfill gas in a Renewwable Portfolio Standard and HR 6 and S 987 relating to incentives for production of cellulosic ethanol from municipal solid waste

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JAMES BOLAND	N/A
DAVID CONOVER	N/A
ROBERT EISENBUD	N/A
CURTIS RICH	N/A
DON SUNDQUIST	N/A

Contacted: SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; State, Dept of (DOS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Bills named: H.R. 6 (110th)

Transportation TRA

S 719 relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board over processing of municipal solid waste on rail property and HR 2641 relating to a demonstration project for hybrid hydraulic trucks

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JAMES BOLAND	N/A
DAVID CONOVER	N/A
ROBERT EISENBUD	N/A
CURTIS RICH	N/A
DON SUNDQUIST	N/A

Contacted: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); State, Dept of (DOS); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

Bills named: H.R. 2641 (110th)

Waste (hazardous/solid/interstate/nuclear) WAS

HR 518 relating to imports of waste generated outside the United States

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JAMES BOLAND	N/A
DAVID CONOVER	N/A
ROBERT EISENBUD	N/A
CURTIS RICH	N/A
DON SUNDQUIST	N/A

Contacted: State, Dept of (DOS); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC)

Bills named: H.R. 518 (110th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

HR 6 and HR 2776 and S 1419, 1508, and 1531 relating to a business tax credit for production of elecctricity from waste-to-energy, open-loop biomass, and landfill gas and incentives for production of cellulosic ethanol from municipal solid waste

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
JAMES BOLAND	N/A
DAVID CONOVER	N/A
ROBERT EISENBUD	N/A
CURTIS RICH	N/A
DON SUNDQUIST	N/A

Contacted: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); State, Dept of (DOS); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 2776 (110th), H.R. 6 (110th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.