LaFarge North America

Parent Organization: LaFarge SA

Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in four major products: cement, construction aggregates, concrete and gypsum wallboard. It currently (2009) is the world's largest cement manufacturer by mass shipped ahead of Holcim.

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 December 31, 2012 filing.
Download all contributions to LaFarge North America

  • Summary

    overview of the committee's finances
    Total Raised:
    $88,247
    Total Spent:
    $110,138
    Cash on Hand:
    $17,188
    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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  • Top PAC Recipients

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View all campaign finance data for LaFarge North America Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$1,110,000 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 LaFarge North America

  • Names of Lobbyists
  • Firm Hired Amount
    LaFarge North America $1,110,000
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
    • Transportation,
    • Environment & Superfund,
    • Fed Budget & Appropriations,
    • Labor, Antitrust & Workplace,
    • Taxes
  • Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
    Bill No. Title
    S.153 Robert C. Byrd Mine and Workplace Safety and Health Act of 2011
    H.R.199 Protect America's Energy and Manufacturing Jobs Act of 2011
    S.231 EPA Stationary Source Regulations Suspension Act
    S.615 Fiscal Accountability and Transparency in Infrastructure Spending Act of 2011
    H.J.RES.9 Disapproving a rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from the Portland Cement Manufacturing Industry and Standards of Performance for Portland Cement Plants.
    H.R.910 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
    S.482 Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011
    H.R.1705 Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011
    H.R.2401 Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011
    H.R.2681 Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011
View all lobbying data for LaFarge North America Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 35 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 "LaFarge North America" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

EPA Violations

1 Enforcement Actions
Information

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
Lafarge North America, Inc (National Case) Lafarge North America, Inc 2011 Buffalo, Ia; Fredonia, ... $19,780,692
View all EPA violations data for LaFarge North America Sources: EPA ECHO Enforcement Data