Calendars and notes for certain agency employees.

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

+Any and all agendas, notes, memos or other documents that were produced or received as a result of the following meetings (which were teleconferences), listed below, which I obtained via the docket search at the following website, searching for RIN RIN: 1545-BP42: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eom12866Search

For brevity, I have listed only limited attendees, including the Treasury employees.

-3/30/20: Between Jim Nolan of BP and others, including John Horowitz, Heidi Cohen, Hannah Hawkins of Treasury Department.
-4/2/20: Between Nichole Saunders and Scott Anderson of EDF and others, including Heidi Cohen and John Horowitz of Treasury.
-4/2/20: Marian Marshall with Grayling, representing Carbon Capture Coalition, and others, including Heidi Cohen, John Horowitz and Heidi Hawkins of Treasury.
-4/7/20: Requested by George Baker of Williams & Jensen PLLC, on behalf of Energy Advance Center and others, including Ed Coleman and Susan Blevins of ExxonMobil, and Heidi Cohen, John Horowitz and Stacy Sneeringer of Treasury.
-4/30/20: Conrad Lass of Ogilvy Government Relations, representing Baker Hughes, and others including John Horowitz, Hannah Hawkins and Heidi Cohen of Treasury.
-5/12/20: Requested by Stephen Fotis of Van Ness Feldman on behalf of Shell Oil Co, and others including John Horowitz, Stacy Sneeringer, Hannah Hawkins, (In Person) Heidi Cohen of Treasury.

Because the above searches involve a limited number of meetings within your agency, all in recent months, these should hopefully constitute simple electronic searches.

If you decide to withhold an exempt portion of any record, please release all other segregable parts. If you withhold any record or portion of a record, please specify which statutory exemptions are claimed for each withholding. Please describe each record withheld, including its date and size (e.g., number of pages).

I request that any documents be provided in electronic format, preferably in a searchable format such as PDFs, and that records be provided electronically via email to the address included. This request is particularly important given the current work-from-home orders amid the COVID-19 crisis, and the uncertainty of when offices will reopen to receive mail. If this is not possible, please notify me and I can provide a ground mailing address.

As a representative of the news media I am only required to pay for the direct cost of duplication after the first 100 pages. Please waive any applicable fees. InsideClimate News is a nonprofit news media organization, and release of the requested information will inform the public and serve the public interest, specifically by illuminating an important tax incentive for a critical technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The information will be included in publicly-available news articles and will not be used for commercial interest. If there are any search, review, or duplication fees greater than $100, please inform me before you fill the request.

As I am making this request as a journalist and this information is of timely value, I would appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by email, if you have questions regarding this request. I can be reached at 917-719-0671.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 days.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Kusnetz

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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

+Any and all agendas, notes, memos or other documents that were produced or received as a result of the following meetings (which were teleconferences), listed below, which I obtained via the docket search at the following website, searching for RIN RIN: 1545-BP42: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eom12866Search

For brevity, I have listed only limited attendees, including the Treasury employees.

-3/30/20: Between Jim Nolan of BP and others, including John Horowitz, Heidi Cohen, Hannah Hawkins of Treasury Department.
-4/2/20: Between Nichole Saunders and Scott Anderson of EDF and others, including Heidi Cohen and John Horowitz of Treasury.
-4/2/20: Marian Marshall with Grayling, representing Carbon Capture Coalition, and others, including Heidi Cohen, John Horowitz and Heidi Hawkins of Treasury.
-4/7/20: Requested by George Baker of Williams & Jensen PLLC, on behalf of Energy Advance Center and others, including Ed Coleman and Susan Blevins of ExxonMobil, and Heidi Cohen, John Horowitz and Stacy Sneeringer of Treasury.
-4/30/20: Conrad Lass of Ogilvy Government Relations, representing Baker Hughes, and others including John Horowitz, Hannah Hawkins and Heidi Cohen of Treasury.
-5/12/20: Requested by Stephen Fotis of Van Ness Feldman on behalf of Shell Oil Co, and others including John Horowitz, Stacy Sneeringer, Hannah Hawkins, (In Person) Heidi Cohen of Treasury.

Because the above searches involve a limited number of meetings within your agency, all in recent months, these should hopefully constitute simple electronic searches.

If you decide to withhold an exempt portion of any record, please release all other segregable parts. If you withhold any record or portion of a record, please specify which statutory exemptions are claimed for each withholding. Please describe each record withheld, including its date and size (e.g., number of pages).

I request that any documents be provided in electronic format, preferably in a searchable format such as PDFs, and that records be provided electronically via email to the address included. This request is particularly important given the current work-from-home orders amid the COVID-19 crisis, and the uncertainty of when offices will reopen to receive mail. If this is not possible, please notify me and I can provide a ground mailing address.

As a representative of the news media I am only required to pay for the direct cost of duplication after the first 100 pages. Please waive any applicable fees. InsideClimate News is a nonprofit news media organization, and release of the requested information will inform the public and serve the public interest, specifically by illuminating an important tax incentive for a critical technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The information will be included in publicly-available news articles and will not be used for commercial interest. If there are any search, review, or duplication fees greater than $100, please inform me before you fill the request.

As I am making this request as a journalist and this information is of timely value, I would appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by email, if you have questions regarding this request. I can be reached at 917-719-0671.

Thank you for your consideration of this request.

I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 days.

Sincerely,

Nicholas Kusnetz

Hi,
I'm writing to check on the status of this request. Can you provide an update?

Thanks,
Nick

Great, thank you!