Black Hills Corporation

Based in SD

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AI Overview

With $2.4M in lobbying spend across 34 quarterly filings, Black Hills Corporation is a significant lobbying presence. Their lobbying covers 16 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$2.4M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$1.6M
2019	$190K
2020	$80K
2021	$40K
2022	$110K
2023	$220K
2024	$40K
2025	$150K

Issues Lobbied

Budget/Appropriations Environment Energy Taxation Homeland Security Utilities Transportation Clean Air & Water Natural Resources Defense Labor Issues Telecommunications Intelligence Consumer Issues Banking Agriculture

Lobbying Firms

Black Hills Corporation

Lobbyists

Joshua Shields Aaron Costello Jafar Karim

Government Agencies Targeted

These are the government entities that Black Hills Corporation disclosed contacting in their lobbying filings.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESSENATE

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What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Budget/Appropriations, Environment, Energy, Taxation, Homeland Security and 11 more

H.R.1625 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, (Division D - Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018; Division G - Department of the Interior, Environment, and Re

H.R. 1625, 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act, provisions on vegetation management and other issues;

H.R. 1873, Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act;

H.R. 2921, National Forest System V

H.R.4476, PURPA Modernization Act of 2017;

Clean Power Plan and greenhouse gas regulation generally;

Natural gas supply generally;

Methane emissions generally;

Pipeline safety generally

H.R. 1, The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Cybersecurity issues generally.