Connie Rogers

Connie Rogers advises companies in project development, litigation and transactions, primarily on federal public lands and Tribal lands, with particular emphasis on compliance with federal land management statutes, the National Environmental Policy Act, species protection statutes, federal Indian law and cultural resource and religious freedom laws and concerns.

Ms. Rogers’ clients include companies, local governments, non-profits and educational institutions in developing and implementing major infrastructure (water, wastewater, transmission), mining, energy (conventional and renewable) projects.

Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, and after practicing as a partner in a large Rocky Mountain regional law firm, Ms. Rogers founded and ran her own law firm for six years. Ms. Rogers also served as Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources at the U.S. Department of the Interior, where she was the lead Interior lawyer on all manner of issues relating to the development of renewable and conventional energy and mineral resources on Interior-managed lands.

Ms. Rogers’ project development experience includes renewable and conventional energy, and mineral and infrastructure projects on public and Indian lands; environmental and cultural resources compliance in federal permitting; financing, due diligence, land acquisition and leasing for wind, solar, transmission and biomass projects; special use authorizations for educational and research facilities on federal lands; work with stakeholder groups; and defense of legal challenges to project approvals.

Ms. Rogers is active with the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation), the American Exploration and Mining Association, the National Mining Association and the Business and Human Rights Lawyers Association. She is former chairperson of the Public Lands Committee as well as a former co-chairperson of the Native American Resources Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy and Resources.