The results of the recent U.S. election bring significant questions about evolving regulations and their implications for the energy industry. For nearly five decades, our bipartisan team has effectively helped energy clients navigate transitions within both the executive and legislative branches.  

As one of the nation’s leading energy law and policy firms, we are monitoring these developments and will continue to provide clients valuable insights and guidance on how to navigate business operations and strategic interests within the oil and gas, LNG, conventional and renewable energy, and electric transmission sectors.  

Our professionals are well-positioned to provide bipartisan, strategic advice on legislation, regulation, policy, permitting, and funding challenges and opportunities related to environment and natural resources matters, including air, water, public lands, climate change, and sustainability initiatives.  As the priorities of the Trump Administration and new Congress evolve, Van Ness Feldman will continue to monitor and provide proactive counsel, adapting to an indeterminate landscape, such that we are able to tailor strategies best suited to our clients’ goals and objectives.

Using our decades-long experience and relationships with Congress, and the Executive Branch, including senior career staff at DOE and IRS, our federal funding team is exceptionally well-positioned to ensure decision-makers understand how clients’ projects fit within established funding and tax credit programs as well as to provide strategic advocacy in negotiations, agency reviews, and with compliance on award terms and conditions.

With the upcoming shift in leadership, it has never been more crucial to enlist a team that can maintain ongoing, substantive dialogues with Members of Congress, senior staff, and the new leaders at federal agencies to ensure that current recipients of, and those interested in future opportunities with, various federal funding mechanisms and tax incentives are quickly able to identify potential policy shifts  issues, and obstacles on the horizon.  

With one of the country’s most comprehensive energy and natural resources policy, land use, and environmental permitting practices, Van Ness Feldman has an unparalleled bench of professionals involved in efforts to reform the federal government’s permitting rules to meet the nation’s infrastructure needs now and in the future.

With a deep understanding of permitting processes at the local, state, and federal level, the firm is well positioned to help clients address and adapt to evolving challenges – and opportunities – in this area.

The Van Ness Feldman team is actively tracking and analyzing key initiatives of the incoming Trump-Vance administration and those of the 119th Congress. The firm’s bipartisan team has extensive knowledge and a deep bench of professionals, many of whom served in previous administrations, at federal agencies, as elected officials, or as senior staff members, which uniquely positions the firm to help clients comprehend policy and regulatory implications and implement strategies responsive to the uncertainties inherent in the transition of power between administrations.