Eastman Chemical Company
Lobbying client
Eastman Chemical Company is a Fortune 500 specialty chemicals manufacturer headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, spun off from Kodak in 1994, that makes plastics, fibers, and chemical intermediates and has developed a molecular ('advanced') plastics recycling process. Reporting has documented the company lobbying New York State officials to keep that process classified as recycling under state packaging law. It has also registered citywide with the City Council, filing 10 disclosures since 2024 and engaging all 51 council members through Brown & Weinraub Advisors on local environmental, chemical, and recycling legislation.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 11
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $264,000
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Brown & Weinraub Advisors, LLC Lobbyist firm
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Environmental/Chemical Issues
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - RECYCLING ISSUES
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - recycling issues