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<b>Martin Hall</b> – Martin Hall was chief of staff for CEQ from 200621 through the end of the Bush
administration in 2009.22 Prior to joining the administration, Mr. Hall worked as an aide to
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21 Sen. Inhofe Aide to Become CEQ Chief of Staff, Sources Say, E&E News, May 31, 2006.
22 FirstEnergy Names Martin L. Hall Vice President, Energy Policy, PR Newswire, January 1, 2009.
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Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) on the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee.23 Prior
to that, Mr. Hall was a registered lobbyist for Gulfstream Aircraft Corporation.24
After leaving the administration in 2009, Mr. Hall joined <b><span style=" color: #ED1C24;">FirstEnergy, an electric utility company</span></b>
based in Ohio,25 as vice president of energy policy, where he oversees and directs the company’s
Environmental Department.26 Mr. Hall is not currently registered to lobby.</p>
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<strong>FirstEnergy Corp.</strong>, based in Akron Ohio, spent $5.7 million lobbying, including $1.24 million in the first quarter of this year. Among its lobbyists are Martin Hall, former chief of staff for the Council on Environmental Quality and former staffer and deputy staff director for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. FirstEnergy also has hired five other firms to help in its lobbying efforts and has a PAC that has distributed nearly $1.2 million this election cycle to a range of members, including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio; Whitfield, who has been a vigorous defender of coal interests from his seat on the Energy and Commerce Committee; Democratic Reps. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania and Bob Latta of Ohio, also members of Energy and Commerce; Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, member of the Natural Resources Committee; and Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
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