{{#badges: Climate change |CoalSwarm}}Michael J. Riith is an in-house lobbyist with the Southern Company, a major U.S. power utility.
Climate change lobbying[]
Southern Company spent $13,980,000 on in-house lobbying costs in 2008 and a further $3,650,000 to date in 2009.[1] The registered lobbyists for the first half of 2008 were Riith, John L. Pemberton, L. Ray Harry, Kyle C. Leach, James M. McCool, H. Adam Lawrence, Jeanne H. Wolak, S. Lofton Cox, Bruce Edelston, F. Scott Orr, Carl A. Punyko, Stoney G. Burke and Nicholas C. Sellers. The registered lobbyists for the third quarter of 2008 were Lawrence, Pemberton, Harry, Leach, McCool, Riith, Wolak, Cox, Burke, Orr, Punyko and Nicholas C. Sellers. The registered lobbyists for last quarter of 2008 were Lawrence, Pemberton, Harry, Leach, McCool, Riith, Wolak, Cox, Orr and Punyko. The registered lobbyists for the first quarter of 2009 were Pemberton, Harry, Lawrence, Leach, McCool, Riith, Wolak, Burke, Orr, Punyko and Cox.
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- ↑ "Southern Company", Center for Public Integrity, accessed July 2009.