This afternoon, the FCC announced the release of a bulk, machine-readable archive of the more than 1.1 million comments they received during the first comment period of their Open Internet rulemaking proceeding.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: follow EPA’s greenhouse gas proposals
Sunlight put together a guide to the EPA's major greenhouse gas proposals, with links to our Docket Wrench tool where curious minds can examine some of the 5.6 million comments to date.
Continue readingThe influence battle for your child’s lunch
Food processing companies' dollars flow to the campaigns for members on the Appropriations' agriculture subcommittee, some of whom are trying to delay new regulations for healthier school lunches.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: AT&T meets often with FCC officials
AT&T and its intended, DirecTV, gain DC clout via their contributions, fundraising and lobbying expenditures. Another way their power is revealed is in just how much they make themselves known before the FCC. The answer: a lot.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Who is debating marijuana?
New Jersey wins the honor for the most bills introduced by the legislature mentioning the word "marijuana" so far this calendar year — 48 — and a dozen states have considered 10+ such bills, according to an analysis of OpenStates.org.
Continue readingWill e-cigarettes get vaporized by the federal government?
Want to track the behind-the-scenes lobbying on e-cigarette regulations? Sunlight Foundation's Docket Wrench provides graphical and analytical tools to help.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Nigerian government hires lobbying firms
Our latest look at interesting trends and news items that our Reporting Group has seen on Sunlight's influence trackers.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Support for transfats, not so much for marijuana
Transfats, marijuana and medical devices are on the docket in the latest edition of Influence Analytics.
Continue readingHow Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before you ever heard of it
From 2009 until mid-2013, drug companies and associations mentioned the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 251 separate lobbying reports – two and a half times more than the next most active industry.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Mary Cheney’s firm organizes pro-Keystone XL blitz
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary, appears to be connected to a last-minute effort to persuade federal regulators to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
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