Ed Roggenkamp, Associate

Ed Roggenkamp graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2009. He joined SPR in the fall of 2011, after clerking for the Honorable Michael H. Dolinger, U.S.M.J., S.D.N.Y, and completing a year-long fellowship at the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago, IL. He has worked on matters including renewable energy development, Superfund litigation, Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act permitting, environmental impact review, and comments on proposed federal rules under RCRA, SMCRA, and the Clean Air Act.

At SPR, Ed’s practice has focused on complex litigation, including cost recovery actions under the state and federal Superfund laws. He has also assisted in due diligence review of the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, including hazardous waste remediation and permitting under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.

During his time at ELPC, Ed focused primarily on the impact of coal mining and coal ash disposal on water quality. In that capacity, he participated in citizen suits under the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Protection Act, and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. He also wrote comments on proposed federal rules governing the disposal of coal ash in landfills under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Ed also performed several “best practices” analyses of net metering, renewable portfolio standards, and other state-law incentives for renewable energy development.

While in law school, Ed was a semifinalist at the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition and taught a course in Environmental Law and Policy in the Boston College Political Science Department. He also served as an Article Editor on the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and interned at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston and at the New York City Law Department’s Environmental Law Division.

Affiliations/Activities:

Ed is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and is a member of the bar of the Southern District of New York. He is a member of the Environmental Law Institute, the ABA, the New York State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council, and the Bar Association of the City of New York. He was a participant in the 2011 Environmental Law Institute’s Boot Camp.

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D. 2009, cum laude
• Yale University, B.A. 2000