Owens Corning – Lobbying Governance & Transparency

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Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Strong	Owens Corning demonstrates a structured governance process to align its lobbying with climate policy: "From the standpoint of engaging with policy makers, our Government Affairs team controls all aspects of our communications and ensures that these activities are completely aligned with our climate policy," and this team also "oversees our interactions with industry and trade associations, ensuring that our engagement is aligned with our mission, purpose, and values, including our climate policy." Both direct and indirect activities are subject to oversight, as the company states that "we regularly review language and activities with both external affairs and sustainability and conduct legal reviews of external communications, including letters, testimony and interactions with outside advocates or non-governmental organizations (NGOs)," and that "Owens Corning incurs lobbying expenses directly through an internal registered lobbyist and four lobbying consultants, as well as indirectly through trade associations who lobby on behalf of their member companies." Governance is further embedded in the broader sustainability framework with "Our CEO and Board of Directors have oversight of our progress toward our climate and sustainability goals" through annual program reviews. Nonetheless, we found no evidence of a publicly available audit or third-party review specifically assessing the alignment of its climate lobbying efforts, and we found no named individual such as a Chief Government Affairs Officer or dedicated committee solely tasked with overseeing climate lobbying governance, indicating strong procedural controls but limited external transparency and dedicated oversight accountability. View Sources	B

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Strong

Owens Corning demonstrates a structured governance process to align its lobbying with climate policy: "From the standpoint of engaging with policy makers, our Government Affairs team controls all aspects of our communications and ensures that these activities are completely aligned with our climate policy," and this team also "oversees our interactions with industry and trade associations, ensuring that our engagement is aligned with our mission, purpose, and values, including our climate policy." Both direct and indirect activities are subject to oversight, as the company states that "we regularly review language and activities with both external affairs and sustainability and conduct legal reviews of external communications, including letters, testimony and interactions with outside advocates or non-governmental organizations (NGOs)," and that "Owens Corning incurs lobbying expenses directly through an internal registered lobbyist and four lobbying consultants, as well as indirectly through trade associations who lobby on behalf of their member companies." Governance is further embedded in the broader sustainability framework with "Our CEO and Board of Directors have oversight of our progress toward our climate and sustainability goals" through annual program reviews. Nonetheless, we found no evidence of a publicly available audit or third-party review specifically assessing the alignment of its climate lobbying efforts, and we found no named individual such as a Chief Government Affairs Officer or dedicated committee solely tasked with overseeing climate lobbying governance, indicating strong procedural controls but limited external transparency and dedicated oversight accountability.

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Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Analysis	Score
Comprehensive	Owens Corning provides an unusually detailed picture of its climate-related lobbying. It names a wide range of specific measures it has worked on, including federal legislation such as the 25C Retrofit Tax Credit, the 45L New Home Tax Credit, S. 403/H.R. 1159 the IMAGINE Act, and S. 2941 the Recycle Act, sub-national initiatives like adoption of the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code in NY, PA, NC and VA, state code update processes in FL, OH and CA, utility-supported trainings on the 2015 and 2018 IECC, and discrete infrastructure projects such as the Grain Belt Express Clean Line. The company also discloses how it seeks to influence these measures: it “lobbied the Hill and the Administration” on federal bills, “encouraged the Missouri Public Service Commission” to approve a transmission line, works “through trade associations, NGOs, and directly” with state code agencies, public-utility commissions and local governments, and even convenes ad-hoc coalitions of builders and housing groups when promoting Passive House standards. Finally, Owens Corning is explicit about what it wants to achieve—e.g., raising the 25C credit rate from 10 % to 30 % and the cap from $500 to $2,400, securing “additional federal funding for recycling infrastructure, marketing, and education,” making the 2021 IECC or 2019/2022 ASHRAE 90.1 the mandatory minimum for new federal buildings, creating “alternative compliance paths” that keep small builders in code, and ensuring state codes are strengthened rather than weakened. This level of specificity on the policies addressed, the channels used and the concrete results sought demonstrates comprehensive transparency in the company’s climate-policy lobbying.	A