Jake Tyner translates a decade of Congressional, executive branch, and policy experience to help energy and natural resources clients shape and navigate federal decisions.
Jake is a lawyer and policy strategist who has spent more than a decade at the center of federal energy and natural resources policy—inside the U.S. Department of the Interior, in high-level Congressional roles, and advocating for industry at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Jake’s experience means clients learn what federal law requires, how and why agencies and Congress actually decide, and where clients can influence the outcome.
Jake has built extensive relationships across Washington on both sides of the aisle and throughout the executive branch. He puts those relationships to work for clients navigating the federal decisions that determine whether projects move forward, from Congress to the agencies to the White House.
Jake advises clients across virtually every segment of the energy and natural resources economy—oil and gas, mining, critical minerals, renewables, energy storage, and electric transmission. In government, he worked on many of the issues that determine whether projects get built, including permitting, modernization of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), public lands, and domestic mineral supply. This experience gives clients an inside view of how these decisions are actually made.
Most recently, Jake served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior, a senior role overseeing the federal government's management of onshore and offshore energy and mineral development, from oil and gas and mining to renewable energy on public lands. As Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources, he was a principal legal advisor to Department leadership on those same resources. In both roles, Jake contributed to the federal government's critical minerals and permitting priorities, working directly with the White House and the National Energy Dominance Council.
Before Interior, Jake spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill, as Chief Counsel for the Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he handled matters across the EPA's air, water, chemical, and waste jurisdiction; General Counsel to Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska; and Policy Advisor and Counsel to Congressman David McKinley of West Virginia. Earlier, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute, he built relationships across a range of private sector industries.