Environment and Natural Resources

Rodey’s Environment, Natural Resources, Water and Utilities practice group provides transactional, regulatory and litigation assistance to clients with properties and operations in New Mexico. We help clients in the coal, cooper, industrial minerals, oil and gas, potash, precious metals, uranium, water, and electric generation and transmission businesses with acquisitions, leasing, sales, exploration, development, operations, leasing, permitting and planning and have extensive experience in negotiating and drafting natural resources contracts and leases. We also represent lenders to and investors in these businesses. Our work encompasses federal, state and local issues. Our combined experience includes virtually every aspect of natural resources, environment, water, and utility law:

	Air quality management
	CERCLA/Superfund liability
	Cultural and historic properties
	Endangered species
	Environmental aspects of real estate transactions
	Environmental litigation
	Environmental management by indian tribes and pueblos
	Groundwater discharge plans
	Hazardous materials and hazardous waste management
	Insurance coverage issues
	Land use and real estate development
	Lender and trustee liability
	Mining
	National Historic Preservation Act
	NEPA compliance
	Oil and gas
	Permitting
	Pesticides control
	Radioactive materials management
	Rate regulation
	RCRA/HSWA compliance
	Solid waste management
	State and federal public lands issues
	Storm water regulation
	Underground storage tank management
	Utility facility citing
	Water quality management and HPDES
	Water rights adjudications and transactions