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Mike Malmquist is a shareholder of Parsons Behle & Latimer and works in the firm's Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources practice group. He helps clients site and develop renewable energy, mining, transportation and other projects by advising them on environmental permitting, land use authorization, public lands and NEPA issues and strategies. He also defends projects against permit appeals and lawsuits involving claims under NEPA, FLPMA, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water and Air Acts and other federal and state environmental, wildlife and public land laws. He has performed environmental and title diligence for various energy and natural resource acquisitions and mergers.

Mr. Malmquist was previously with the United States Department of Justice where his practice included trial and appellate litigation of cases involving NEPA, the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and various Indian law and water law issues. He also represented the Department's position on legislative and policy issues with a focus on Western natural resources and water rights.

Mr. Malmquist is active in the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and served as president of the Foundation during 2017-2018.

Work Highlights

2010 Lawyer of the Year, Utah Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Bar Section

AV® Preeminent™ Rating, Martindale-Hubbell

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Utah Business magazine’s Legal Elite, Chambers USA, and Mountain States Super Lawyers

Best Lawyers in America "Lawyer of the Year," Mining Law, Salt Lake City 2017, 2023

Best Lawyers in America "Lawyer of the Year," Environmental Law, Salt Lake City, 2021

Best Lawyers in America "Lawyer of the Year," Energy Law, Salt Lake City 2016, 2019

Best Lawyers in America, "Best Lawyer," Energy Law, Environmental Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law 2005 - 2023

Practices before the Interior Board of Land Appeals and the Utah Board of Oil, Gas and Mining and multiple federal courts

Education

University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law

1989

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