El Paso Corp

Child Organizations: Coastal Corp Southern Natural Gas Co

El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP), provides natural gas and related energy products and is one of North America's largest independent natural gas producers. It is headquartered at 1001 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas. United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

Information

Figures 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.

Latest FEC Data

covers through committee's May 23, 2012 filing.
Download all contributions to El Paso Corp

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $125,915
    Total Spent:
    $363,291
    Cash on Hand:
    $0
    Debts:
    $0

Standardized Donation Information

covers roughly through Q4 2012. may lag behind FEC section above, as donors and industries are identified by hand.

  • Top Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for El Paso Corp Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$1,215,633 Spent
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Figures 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.

covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of El Paso Corp

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    El Paso Corp $1,215,633
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Energy & Nuclear Power,
    • Natural Resources,
    • Taxes
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    H.R.1084 Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2011
    H.R.1204 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas development sources, and for other purposes.
    S.587 FRAC Act
    H.R.563 Domestic Energy Independence and Maritime Jobs Creation Act
    H.R.1380 New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011
    H.R.2273 Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act
    H.R.910 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
    S.228 Defending America's Affordable Energy and Jobs Act
    S.231 EPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act
    S.275 Pipeline Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for El Paso Corp Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 7 dockets
Information

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 "El Paso Corp" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

2 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
Cam-Or (Alcoa, Et Al) Consent Decree (Cercla) Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (+12 others) 2011 Westville, In $12,200,000
Operating Industries Inc Superfund Site Admin Settlement No.2010-04 EPEC Polymers, Inc. (+275 others) 2011 Monterey Park, Ca $8,500,000
View all EPA violations data for El Paso Corp Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data