Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN), headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve approximately 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. Progress Energy celebrated a century of service in 2008. The company's chairman and CEO is William D. Johnson; his predecessor was Mr. Bob McGehee, who died on October 9, 2007 at the age of 64 of a stroke while on a business trip to London.
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Campaign Finance
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, 2008 filing.-
Summary
overview of the committee's finances- Total Raised:
- $475,256
- Total Spent:
- $462,238
- Cash on Hand:
- $199,348
- 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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Lobbying
$3,560,000 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 Progress Energy
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Names of Lobbyists
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Firm Hired Amount Progress Energy $3,560,000 -
Most Frequently Disclosed Lobbying Issues
- Energy & Nuclear Power,
- Clean Air & Water,
- Environment & Superfund,
- Utilities,
- Taxes,
- Government Issues,
- Transportation,
- Telecommunications,
- Homeland Security,
- Science & Technology
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Most Frequently Disclosed Bills
Bill No. Title H.R.6 Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 S.1766 Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007 S.1 Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 S.2076 Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act S.2191 America's Climate Security Act of 2007 S.1177 Clean Air Planning Act of 2007 H.R.969 H.R.1590 Safe Climate Act of 2007 H.R.1650 Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2008 H.R.1945 Energy For Our Future Act
Regulations
Mentioned in 237 dockets; Submitted to 2 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 "Progress Energy" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.
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Documents Submitted by the Organization
View all submissions data for Progress Energy
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Regulations.gov
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Mentions in Document Text
View all mentions data for Progress Energy
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Regulations.gov
EPA Violations
1 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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| Carolina Transformer Company | Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (+151 others) | 2008 | Fayetteville, Nc | $12,381,948 |
