Steven Imig

Practice Areas

Steven specializes in commercial, regulatory, energy, natural resources, and environmental law and litigation.

Career

Steven represents oil and gas companies, pipeline operators, renewable energy developers, investors, and individuals. Steven has acted as a counselor and a litigator in matters involving oil and gas, renewable and conventional energy development, contracts, and commercial and business issues. Steven helps clients navigate complex federal, state, and local regulatory processes, and routinely assists with regulatory aspects of commercial transactions.

Steven’s oil and gas experience includes litigation and counseling about federal, state, and private leases, title issues, exploration, development, and operating agreements, unitization, gathering obligations, accounting procedures, surface owner disputes, and rental and royalty obligations. Prior to law school, Steven worked as an economic consultant specializing in energy markets.

Publications

Administrative Review of U.S. Forest Service Decisions: Pre-Decisional Objections and Post-Decisional Appeals, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Challenging and Defending Agency Actions (September 2016)

Enhanced Oil Recovery on Federal Lands, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Enhanced OilRecovery (May 2015)

Maintaining a Seat at the Table in Permitting and NEPA Analyses, 60 Rocky Min. Min. L. Inst. 25-1 (July 2014)

Split Estate Lands: Understanding Surface and Subsurface Rights, EUCI Conference on Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands (March 2014)

Federal Regulation of Non-Listed Wildlife, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Cultural Resources, Wildlife, and Waters of the U.S. (April 2012)

Energy Development on National Forest System Lands, 57 Rocky Min. Min. L. Inst. 6-1 (July 2011)

Mineral Development and Land Conservation, a Handbook for Conservation Professionals, Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts (Rev. Ed. 2011)

Trends in NEPA Litigation, Public Lands Advocacy NEPA Permitting Seminar, Denver, Colorado (December 2010)

NEPA Case Law Update, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on the National Environmental Policy Act, Denver, Colorado (October 2010)

Rights of Surface Owners Under State Oil and Gas Rules, Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts Annual Conference (2010)

The Need for Environmental Review Complicates Stimulus Funding, The Environmental Leader (March 2009)

Can NEPA and the Stimulus Bill Coexist?, Law360 (February 2009)

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