C. Gregory Rogers

C. Gregory Rogers, J.D., CPA, is President and founder of Advanced Environmental Dimensions, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in environmental accounting, disclosure, and tax.  He is also counsel with a Dallas environmental law firm where his practice encompasses environmental aspects of corporate governance, financial reporting, and real estate and commercial transactions for clients in a broad range of industries, including real estate, manufacturing, oil and gas, chemicals, transportation, and forest products.  He is listed in Best Lawyers in America in the field of environmental law.

Mr. Rogers is author of Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Wiley, 2005) and a nationally-recognized expert on environmental accounting and disclosure. He is a past Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Environmental Disclosure and one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004).

Mr. Rogers earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and law review editor. He received his B.B.A. in Accounting with honors from the University of Oklahoma.

Guest Lecturer

• University of Texas at Dallas

• Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan

• Stanford Graduate School of Business

Publications

• A Board’s-Eye View of Environmental Liabilities, Directorship Magazine, December 1, 2009.
• Corporate Environmental Disclosure Policy, Winner of the Best Papers Award, ABA Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Summit: 17th Section Fall Meeting, September 2009.
• "Oh, That Three Billion Dollars”: Emerging Issues in Reporting Environmental Liabilities, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Annual Institute Proceedings, Vol. 54, p. 28A-1 (2008).
• Disclosure Dilemma: Financial Reporting of Contingent and Environmental Liabilities by Alan D. Jagolinzer, Nathan T. Blair, and C. Gregory Rogers, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Case No. 9-A20-0, December 2008.
• Using Insured Fixed-Price Cleanups to Respond to New Accounting Standards, Gain Tax Savings, and Lower Cleanup Costs While Increasing Cost Certainty, by Michael O. Hill and C. Gregory Rogers, BNA Environmental Due Diligence Guide, November 2008.
• Environmental Financial Disclosure Rules and Their Impact on Brownfields Transactions, Winner of the Best Papers Award, ABA Environment, Energy, and Resources Law Summit: 16th Section Fall Meeting, September 17-20, 2008.
• Environmentally Insolvent: Fair Value Measurement of Environmental Liabilities Poses Solvency Risk, Business Law Today, July/August 2008.  This article appeared in the June 2008 issue of the ABA Business Bankruptcy Newsletter.
• Environmental Liabilities Go to Market, Environmental Finance, May 2008.
• Better to be Vaguely Right or Precisely Wrong?, EDR Newsletter, April 2008.
• Investment Community Driving Climate Risk Disclosure, BNA Environmental Due Diligence Guide Report, December 20, 2007.
• Japan’s brownfields brought to bear, co-authored with Miki Mitsunari, Environmental Finance, October 2007.
• Building Value by Paring Environmental Risk, Financial Executive Magazine, September 2007.
• Environmental Disclosure Due Diligence: Taking the Next Step in Environmental Due Diligence, Winner of the Best Papers Award, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 36th Conference on Environmental Law, Keystone, CO, March 8-11, 2007; as published by Business Law Today.
• If Your Head Is in the Sand, Your Assets Are Exposed, Brownfield News, June 2006.
• FIN 47 Already Having Major Effects, Brownfield News, April 2006.
• Preparing Yourself for New Rules for Environmentally Impaired Property, co-authored with Robert Lipscomb; Richard Maloy, MAI, SRA; Valuation Insights & Perspectives, First Quarter 2006.
• Fair-Value Measurement Efforts Will Change Corporate Environmental Practices, co-authored with Gregory E. Scheig, Natural Gas & Electricity Journal, February 2006.  This is a preprint of the article published in Volume 22-7.
• A looming environmental Enron?, Environmental Finance, January 2006.
• Ready for Sarbanes-Oxley Certification?, co-authored with Robert Lipscomb, Corporate Real Estate Leader, November 2005.
• New Accounting Rules for Brownfields, Brownfield News, June 2005.
• Saw the Lightning, Still Waiting for the Thunder: The Third Year of SOX, Brownfield News, February 2005.
• The Emperor Has No Clothes: Going Naked on Environmental D&O Exposures, Risk Management Magazine, December 2004.
• How the outside can help the inside: Corporate counsel can’t do it all, American Bar Association Business Law Today, Volume 13, No.6, July/August 2004.
• Environmental Transparency, Five Areas for Concern, Financial Executive Magazine, June 2004.
• Mothballing and the Balance of Pain, Brownfield News, September/October 2004.
• Pollution Risk Oversight, Directors Monthly, February 2004.
• Uninsured and Undisclosed Environmental Liabilities Pose Risks for Directors, Directors Monthly, May 2003.