ServiceMaster Spent $2.2 Million in 2007 on Lobbying

The ServiceMaster Co. reportedly spent $2.2 million last year lobbying Washington on pesticide and other industry issues, according to the Associated Press.

The Memphis-based company spent $1 million alone in the second half of 2007.

During that period ServiceMaster lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress in relation to insecticides and fungicides as part of the federal farm bill and also on a bill signed by President Bush to extend funding for a pesticide oversight office, the AP reported.

ServiceMaster spent $1.2 million in the first half of 2007 to lobby on issues regarding labor regulators and agriculture programs.

Lobbyists are required to disclose activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995.

Source: Memphis Business Journal