HEARTH, PATIO & BARBECUE ASSOCIATION

Lobbying for HEARTH, PATIO & BARBECUE ASSOCIATION

Filing 2nd Quarter - Report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Aug 13, 2025

Expenses

$15,000.00

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using A: the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

Virginia

Official filing document

Lobbyists on this filing 2

CHRISTOPHER CONNER

Previously held: Associate Manager of Government Affairs
JASON TOLLESON

Previously held: Senior Director of Government Affairs

A "covered position" is a government job the lobbyist held in the 20 years before registering, which the law requires them to name. See the revolving door for former members of Congress across all filings.

Government bodies contacted 3

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SENATE

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when.

Lobbying activity 2

Clean Air and Water (quality)

Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) current and pending regulations affecting woodstoves, pellet stoves, hydronic heater, and forced-air furnaces.

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Promoted the residential energy efficiency tax (Sec.25 (C)) for wood and pellet heaters. Supported legislative efforts to keep the Sec. 25 (C) credit.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.