Koch Companies Public Sector has signed Ice Miller Strategies for issues regarding cybersecurity and chemicals.

A focus will be on the Dept. of Homeland Security’s chemical facility anti-terrorism standards program, which is its first security regulation of the chemicals industry.

CFATS is a performance-based compliance programs, which represents a shift in the current environmental regulatory structure.

IMS founding member Graham Hill, former staff director of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee, heads the four-member lobbying team.

Clayton Heil, former counsel to Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran; Tom Lynch, ex-aide to Senator Max Baucus, and Andy Mueller, a Navy veteran who was senior advisor for defense and homeland security matters, round out the team.

Koch spent $5.8M in first-half lobbying outlays.