Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) (previously named Philip Morris Companies Inc.), based in Henrico County, Virginia, is the parent company of Philip Morris USA; John Middleton, Inc.; United States Smokeless Tobacco, Inc.; Philip Morris Capital Corporation; and Ste Michelle Wine Estates. It is one of the world's largest tobacco corporations. Philip Morris International was spun off in 2008. In addition, Altria Group, Inc. has a 28.7% economic and voting interest in one of the world's largest brewing companies, UK based SABMiller plc. It is a component of the S&P; 500 and was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average until February 19, 2008. The company has its head offices in unincorporated Henrico County, Virginia.

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Campaign Finance

$110,561,094 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

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covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Altria Group Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$129,750,000 Spent
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For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Altria Group

View all lobbying data for Altria Group Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 107 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Altria Group" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

5 Enforcement Actions
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Figures are based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency’s ECHO website. The ECHO database contains federal and state environmental enforcement actions. Data displayed here includes only those actions that began after 2000 and resulted in fines of over $1 million.

Actions where the company was the sole defendant are listed first. Actions where the company is one of multiple defendants are listed subsequently.

For more information see our EPA methodology page.

covers through EPA's October 19, 2011 release
Case Name Defendant Date Locations Amount
Verona Well Field Consent Decree (Cercla) Kraft Foods Global, Inc. (+25 others) 2006 Battle Creek, Mi $9,040,000
Old Southington Landfill Superfund Site Kraft Foods Global Inc (+4 others) 2009 Southington, Ct $4,500,000
San Gabriel Area 2 / Baldwin Park - Allegiance Philip Morris (+1 others) 2005 Azusa, Ca $2,050,000
Casmalia Resources - A. O. Smith Corporation Philip Morris Industrial (+25 others) 2006 Casmalia, Ca $1,800,000
Petroleum Products Corporation Kraft Foods North America, Inc. (+84 others) 2001 Pembroke Pines, Fl $1,017,197
View all EPA violations data for Altria Group Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data

Advisory Committees

2 people on 5 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

covers through 2011

Table shows employees of "Altria Group" that sat on federal advisory committees.

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  • Toggle Department of Commerce 2 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Department of Agriculture 2 people on 2 committees
View all advisory committee data for Altria Group