American Electric Power
Campaign Finance
$11,648,332 GivenFigures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:
- 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.
For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.
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Lobbying
$53,116,467 SpentFigures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.
For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.
Lobbying on Behalf of American Electric Power
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount American Electric Power $53,116,467 Fleishman-Hillard Inc $0 NatSource LLC $0 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Environment & Superfund,
- Clean Air & Water,
- Utilities,
- Telecommunications,
- Taxes,
- Railroads,
- Homeland Security,
- Marine, Boats & Fisheries,
- Fed Budget & Appropriations
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title S.1462 American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 H.R.910 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 S.1733 Green Taxis Act of 2009 S.482 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011 S.2191 America's Climate Security Act of 2007 H.R.6 Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 S.3217 Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2010 S.21 Cyber Security and American Cyber Competitiveness Act of 2011 S.609 Comprehensive Assessment of Regulations on the Economy Act of 2011
Regulations
Mentioned in 995 dockets; Submitted to 17 docketsAll 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.
The tables show occurrences of "American Electric Power" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
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Mentions in Document Text
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Federal Spending
1 contractFederal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.
Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.
Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.
Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.
| Type | Recipient Name | Year | Agency | Description | Amount |
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American Electric Power | 2007 | Federal Prison System | ACCRUALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 FOR ELECTRIC SERVICES | $1,021,572 |
EPA Violations
3 Enforcement ActionsFigures 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.
| Case Name | Defendant | Date | Locations | Amount |
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| Himco Dump Rd/Ra (Cercla) | Indiana Michigan Power Company (+31 others) | 2007 | Elkhart, In | $13,031,373 |
| Green River Disposal, Inc. Superfund Site | Indiana-Michigan Power (+30 others) | 2008 | Maceo, Ky | $3,520,000 |
| Hassan Barrel Site Admin Order On Consent (Cercla) | Indiana Michigan Power Company (+61 others) | 2009 | Fort Wayne, In | $1,700,000 |
Advisory Committees
10 people on 9 committeesData 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.
Table shows employees of "American Electric Power" that sat on federal advisory committees.
View all advisory committee data for American Electric Power