Bighorn is incredibly proud to have worked for Equitrans Midstream on Capitol Hill to complete the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). A recognized “heavy lift,” Bighorn directed the strategy within the U.S. House of Representatives to gain support from House Republicans for a legislative fix for this beleaguered pipeline.
Bighorn is a full-service government relations company that will successfully manage all of your state and federal lobbying, regulatory impacts, and public relations.
Bighorn Public Affairs Group, as a creative consulting and lobbying firm, specializes in helping clients navigate the intricacies of government policy and regulations. Bighorn provides strategic advice, advocacy, and assistance to clients who seek to influence or understand government decisions and policies.
Is your permit application languishing in a federal agency? Is your company or industry under attack from government regulations? Has your Congressional delegation introduced a bill to help but it sits in Committee with no action?
Bighorn can help.
Bighorn consistently develops and executes legislative strategies to help clients work successfully with government agencies, legislators, and regulators to achieve their objectives.
SERVICES
Jennifer Johnson
Founder & CEO
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Energy & Natural Resources
Bighorn advocates for “all of the above” energy solutions including, but not limited to, liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines, offshore wind farms, complex electrical grids, coal-to-carbon products, nuclear reactors and hydrogen and carbon dioxide pipelines. Bighorn assists energy producers in navigating and influencing federal laws and regulations to facilitate the development and growth of these various energy sectors.
Public Land Permitting
Most recently Bighorn developed the strategy for the U.S. House of Representatives and succeeded in passing a law to ensure the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline after the near-finished project was severely sidelined by lawsuits. This pipeline successfully completed the federal permitting process with numerous federal agencies three different times. Additionally, Bighorn successfully secured federal permits for the first U.S. magnesium mine to be permitted in years, located in Luna County, New Mexico.
Municipality & U.S. Territory Challenges
From building wastewater facilities to funding police programs and equipment to starting small business incubators, Bighorn helps urban and rural municipalities and counties to secure federal dollars for infrastructure priorities. Over the years Bighorn has also helped projects in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands and Puerto Rico including emergency management and FEMA funds.
Clean Drinking Water
Bighorn’s proudest achievement is in helping to bring safe, clean drinking water to residents of rural Montana. Drinkable tap water is taken for granted in most of the United States, but plenty of areas exist where the water quality is poor and undrinkable. Bighorn has worked to federally authorize Montana’s Musselshell-Judith Rural Water System and Dry-Redwater Regional Water Authority System while securing federal dollars to build these water systems.
Agriculture
Bighorn Public Affairs Group has an excellent track record of working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Forest Service on a range of issues related to public land management and forest sustainability including public land leases for outdoor recreation and guest ranch use, livestock grazing and mass timber development. Of course, Bighorn assists in navigating and influencing the recurring Farm Bill reauthorizations.
Transportation & Infrastructure
By working on the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization, Bighorn helped to remove cumbersome regulations imposed on aerial firefighting aircraft. This will benefit both the suppression of wildfires and the bottom line of the small businesses fighting fires. Additionally, Bighorn has worked to improve city transit, railroad crossings and has secured funding for the museum that sits on the first railroad tracks in the United States -- the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum.
NEWS
Federal Permitting of a Magnesium Mine on BLM-Managed Public Lands in New Mexico
Musselshell-Judith Rural Water System (MJRWS) in Central Montana- Awarded $37M in Federal Funding
Mountain Valley Pipeline Approval
BIGHORN & FOUNDER CLIENTS
- All
- ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES
- WATER
- CORPORATE
- EDUCATION
- TRANSPORTATION
- NON-PROFIT
- MUNICIPALITIES
