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Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene

By Marianne Lavelle and David Donald

Southern Company, the nation’s largest electric power generator, also had the largest force of lobbyists among the hundreds of businesses an

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Less clean coal lobbying? Not exactly

By Marianne Lavelle

Methodology

By The Center for Public Integrity

Climate lobbying heats up at the state level

By Te-Ping Chen

No longer on staff

By Elspeth Reeve

Commentary: Under the Influence: Why This Series?

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, March 2, 2000 — British statesman George Canning wrote more than a century ago: "Away with the cant of 'measures, not men!' the

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Party machines, lobbyists and special interests: Part two

By Shannon Feaster, Nathaniel Heller, Marianne Holt, Annys Shin and Russ Tisinger

Study finds $565 million spent on lobbying in the states in 2000

By John Dunbar and Leah Rush

Lobbying FAQ

By Elizabeth Brown

Industry of influence nets more than $10 billion

By Alex Knott

Climate lobbying heats up at the state level

By Te-Ping Chen

As it turns out, the Center’s report last month on the 2,340 lobbyists working on federal climate change policy here in D.C. was just the ti

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Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene

By Marianne Lavelle and David Donald

No longer on staff

By Elspeth Reeve

Public service, personal gain

By The Center for Public Integrity

Ratio of lobbyists to legislators 2006

By The Center for Public Integrity

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Less clean coal lobbying? Not exactly

By Marianne Lavelle

Don’t think that the “clean coal” blitz faded in the first months of the Obama administration just because newly filed disclosure forms show

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Methodology

By The Center for Public Integrity

Southern Company dominates the climate lobbying scene

By Marianne Lavelle and David Donald

Following Obama’s speech, parsing key players for global warming legislation

By Matthew Lewis

Second quarter data added to Center's climate lobby database

By The PaperTrail Staff

Commentary: Changing Washington: The hard part

By Bill Buzenberg

The difficulty overcoming the entrenched political tradition of earmarks is just one of many hard realities that will test the Obama Adminis

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Health reform lobbyist mistakenly errs on side of transparency

By Joe Eaton

Drug lobby second to none

By M. Asif Ismail

Checkbook politics

By Victoria Kreha

PhRMA's envoys

By M. Asif Ismail

Obama’s tough ethics order has glaring loophole

By Sarah Laskow

The executive order President Obama signed yesterday may lay out the strictest ethics restrictions in the history of Washington, but it woul

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Breaking the law

By M. Asif Ismail

Statehouse revolvers

By Kevin Bogardus

Under pressure

By Robert Morlino

From lobbyist to legislator

By Nadine Elsibai

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Senate rejects office of public integrity

By Alex Knott and Sam Stein

WASHINGTON, March 28, 2006 — The U.S. Senate defeated today, by a vote of 67-30, an amendment by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Susan Colli

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A new power player in the climate lobby

By Matthew Lewis

Bank of America, unions among newly named inauguration sponsors

By Dave Levinthal

Fiscal cliff, elections boost spending on lobbying

By Dave Levinthal

A global lack of transparency

By M.B. Pell

Commentary: Lawsuit against Clean Air Act by members of Congress

By Curtis Moore

WASHINGTON, September 5, 2000 — For nearly a quarter-century, almost since the very day of his swearing in as a U.S. senator, Utah Republica

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Fiscal cliff, elections boost spending on lobbying

By Dave Levinthal

Senate lobbying data revamp causing problems for data watchdogs

By Dave Levinthal

Bank of America, unions among newly named inauguration sponsors

By Dave Levinthal

No longer on staff

By Elspeth Reeve

Revolving door: 100% increase in lobbyists now working for Congress

By Alexandra Duszak

CRP report details doubling of former lobbyists now working for lawmakers

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More than 2,000 spin through revolving door

By Elizabeth Brown

States outpace Congress in upgrading lobbying laws

By Leah Rush and David Jimenez

States outpace Congress in upgrading lobbying laws

By Leah Rush and David Jiminez

On financial reform bill, 52 percent of lobbyists worked in government

By Caitlin Ginley and M.B. Pell

A global lack of transparency

By M.B. Pell

Investigation into climate change lobbying groups yields little transparency

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Bank of America, unions among newly named inauguration sponsors

By Dave Levinthal

Lobbying FAQ

By Elizabeth Brown

No longer on staff

By Elspeth Reeve

Public service, personal gain

By The Center for Public Integrity

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