Federal Policy Advocacy for client priorities
ENS represents public agencies, municipalities, and regional coalitions before Congress and federal agencies on the legislation and rulemaking that shape policy.
What Federal Advocacy Delivers for Clients
ENS Resources helps clients turn federal policy goals and objectives into defined courses of action. ENS tracks legislative developments in Congress that may affect clients’ interests and reports on what these developments are, how they may affect clients, and why they matter to clients’ policy priorities.
ENS Resources works with clients to develop action plans for engaging policymakers and agencies, putting clients directly in front of Members of Congress, congressional staff, committee staff, and agency officials on issues of concern. Because federal outcomes are shaped by many actors, ENS Resources also coordinates with national and state stakeholders who share clients’ policy priorities, ensuring that clients’ positions are understood and considered throughout the process.
What Federal Advocacy Looks Like
ENS federal advocacy covers four connected areas:
Legislative Advocacy
Regulatory Advocacy
Federal Department and Agency Engagement
Coalition Representation
Federal Advocacy in Practice
Why Clients Choose ENS for Federal Advocacy
Clients choose ENS for federal advocacy because the firm gives clients direct access to senior principals. You work with people who have spent nearly four decades inside federal policy, not generalists learning your sector on your time.
NPDES Permit Term Reform
Water infrastructure projects have grown more complex and costly due to increasingly technical water quality treatment requirements, and these projects now often take longer to complete than the five-year term of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. This mismatch between permit timelines and real-world construction schedules creates a regulatory gap that needed to be addressed. ENS Resources worked with a state association to lead a national policy effort to extend the NPDES permit term from 5 to 10 years to better align federal regulations with the actual pace of water infrastructure projects. This effort resulted in its House passage, which is now part of broader congressional negotiations on comprehensive permit term reform.
ENS Resources takes a hands-on approach to federal advocacy for every client. For each engagement, ENS builds a customized advocacy campaign designed to put the client's priorities directly in front of the policymakers and staff who can act on them. This includes arranging face-to-face meetings between clients and key decision-makers in Washington, D.C., as well as with state-level officials, so clients can speak to their own priorities directly. The result is a clear, strategic platform that positions each client's federal priorities for action.
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Federal Advocacy, Explained Plainly
What services does a federal advocacy firm provide?
A federal policy firm provides strategy development and active advocacy to advance legislative and regulatory inititatives that include federal funding, project and program authorizations, and regulatory directives that support clients' policy goals and objectives.
What issues does ENS advocate on?
ENS advocates on matters impacting economic growth, improved quality of life and public health including water quality, water supply, water infrastructure, clean energy, and related federal policies and programs that promote priorities of public and private agencies, corporations and coalitions into legislative and regulatory arenas.