Description
Using our intelligently designed and intuitive dataset, you can quickly understand how Southern Company (SOJB) is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they’re spending on it, and most importantly – the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.
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Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:
1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.
2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.
3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract. 3. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV – Environment, TOB – Tobacco, FAM – Family Issues/Abortion).
4. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.
5. Bills Lobbied On: The exact congressional bills and public/private laws lobbied on, parsed from lobbying report specific issues (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).
6. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).
7. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Southern Company (SOJB) lobbying for?
Summary of the lobbying data:
– Southern Company hired three lobbying firms: Hunton Andrews Kurth Llp (Formerly Hunton & Williams Llp), The Simmons & Russell Group, Llc, Farragut Partners Llp.
– They lobbied on various general issues such as Transportation, Clean Air and Water (quality), Homeland Security, Environment/Superfund, Utilities, Energy/Nuclear.
– They also lobbied on specific issues including Environmental Legislation Tax, cybersecurity, regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, and federal regulation of electricity transmission.
– They lobbied various government agencies including the Department of Energy, House of Representatives, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Senate, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
One could infer that Southern Company is lobbying on these issues and agencies because they are a utility holding company that provides electricity to customers in the southeastern U.S. As such, energy and environmental policies and regulations have a significant impact on their operations and profitability. The government agencies that they lobbied have regulatory and oversight roles in the energy sector. Their lobbying efforts were likely aimed at influencing policies and regulations that are favorable to their business interests.
