Provided government relations and lobbying services to the City of Lynchburg (Va.) in successfully obtaining $25 million state appropriation of American Rescue Act Plan funds to support combined sewer overflow projects.
Provided government relations and lobbying services to Alexandria Renew Enterprises (aka, Alexandria Virginia Sanitation Authority) in successfully obtaining $50 million state appropriation of American Rescue Act Plan funds to support combined sewer overflow project.
Provides government relations and lobbying services to the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia, focusing on legislative and appropriations support for 27 private non-profit colleges and universities.
Provides government relations and lobbying services to the Virginia Association of Municipal Wastewater Agencies.
Provides government relations and lobbying services to the Virginia Municipal Drinking Water Association.
Provides government relations, regulatory advising, and lobbying services to Fairfax County (Va.) Water Authority.
Provides legislative services to the Virginia Resources Authority, an independent state financing agency supporting local government infrastructure projects.
Provided mediation services in August-November 2017 to Virginia Governor’s Office and Department of Environmental Quality on rulemaking among energy, environmental, industrial, and local government stakeholders for proposed carbon-trading regulations and Virginia possibly joining the nine-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
Provided government relations, regulatory advising, and negotiation
support over a two-year period to E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company in a
$50 million Natural Resources Damages Act settlement with the Commonwealth
of Virginia and the U.S. Department of Interior on legacy mercury
contamination of more than 100 miles of rivers. This was the largest NRDA
settlement in Virginia history and the eighth-largest in the nation.
Provided government relations consulting services to Duke Energy in
Virginia on matters relating to its 2014 coal ash spill in the Dan River.
Provide ongoing government relations services to Virginia Commonwealth
University before the Governor’s Office and General Assembly.
Provided consulting services to HDR Engineering (and to the Hampton Roads
Planning District Commission) on a year-long feasibility study on
wastewater collection system consolidation of some 15 local governments;
consulting team identified potential savings of more than $900 million over
30 years.
Provide ongoing government relations and regulatory advisory services to
James City Service Authority before the General Assembly and state
regulatory agencies on groundwater and surface water permitting, including
for a potential new $130 million water treatment facility.
Provided Virginia and federal government relations and regulatory
advising to Hampton Roads (Va.) Sanitation District on a proposed $1.2
billion, 120 MGD Potomac Aquifer injection/recharge project that also may
reduce wastewater discharge into surface waters by some 90 percent.
Represented HRSD before the General Assembly, Governor’s Office, and state
regulatory agencies.
Provided government relations and regulatory permitting consulting
services to Apex Clean Energy for Virginia’s first utility-scale wind power
generation project (85 MW, up to 25 turbines).
Provided government relations consulting services to a major East Coast
cell tower developer; successfully sited on government-owned property more
than a dozen towers in Virginia localities; included private-to-public
revenue sharing agreements.
Provided representation to Virginia Municipal League before the General
Assembly and Governor’s Office on environmental legislative and policy
matters.
Provide ongoing government relations and environmental policy consulting
services to a major environmental consulting firm on public-private
partnerships to design and construct municipal stormwater infrastructure.
Provide ongoing government relations and legislative advisory services to
the Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Association, comprised of more
than 40 water, wastewater, and stormwater public service authorities.
Provide ongoing government relations consulting services to Hampton Roads
(Va.) Planning District Commission (comprised of 16 local governments),
focusing on stormwater and other environmental matters.
Provide government relations and advisory services to a major developer
on federal and state historic rehabilitation tax credits on a $175 million
residential and commercial development in Fairfax County, Va.
Provide ongoing general government relations and strategic advisory
services to the Virginia Resources Authority, a state financing entity to
local governments for infrastructure projects.
Provided government relations and economic development incentives
negotiations consulting services to Vireol Bio Energy, establishing the
largest ethanol manufacturing facility on the East Coast; secured nearly $5
million in state and local economic development support.
Provided government relations and environmental policy consulting
services to the Economic Development Authority of the City of Richmond
(Va.) on a potential new minor league baseball stadium in downtown
Richmond.
Provided strategic advice to a major national bank on federal and state
environmental policy (in six states) regarding coal mining operations,
focusing on the Clean Water Act.
Provided government relations and environmental policy consulting
services to Columbia Gas of Maryland (NiSource) on the design and
construction of an approximately 25-mile natural gas transmission line in
Maryland.
Provided government relations consulting services and assisted in
economic development incentives negotiations to Lumber Liquidators for a
new distribution center in Henrico County, Va.
Provided government relations services to Louisa County (Va.) Water
Authority in securing a $1.6 million state grant for a wastewater treatment
facility expansion.