Cynthia A. Loehr

Ms. Loehr is Of Counsel with the firm. She practices in the areas of environmental and natural resources law; water law; renewable energy; contracting and procurement law; utility law; and university and education law. Ms. Loehr has been recognized by her peers in the 2024 and 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® for work in Natural Resources Law.

 Ms. Loehr’s extensive experience in environmental and natural resources law includes work on a broad spectrum of topics in the context of real estate purchases and sales, renewable energy developments and financing and contaminated site response/remediation.  The topics she has addressed include environmental liability protections; radioactive waste licensing and financial assurance; permits for construction and operation of wind farm, transmission line and solar projects; groundwater discharges; petroleum spills and underground storage tanks; endangered and threatened species and migratory bird protections; hazardous and oil field waste; mining property removal action; and land use associated with landfill closure.  She has assessed water rights validity and title, settled water rights disputes and objections, addressed utility use of public right-of-way, assessed cultural property requirements and examined mineral royalty and title.

Ms. Loehr has represented clients in administrative and judicial proceedings, including those involving water rights before the State Engineer and state and federal courts, proceedings before the Oil Conservation Commission and the Oil Conservation Division, the New Mexico Environment Department, Commissioner for Public Lands and state courts regarding permitting, compliance, easement and land use matters and before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission on rate and consumer complaint matters. 

Ms. Loehr has advised clients on procurement and contracting issues.  She has drafted and reviewed various types of agreements, such as environmental indemnity agreements, intellectual property agreements, property leases, memoranda of understanding on easements, master service agreement, oil and gas contract with complex indemnity and liability provisions and insurance requirements and licensing for access to and use of property in conjunction with environmental cleanup.  She has addressed client procurement policies for consistency with state and federal requirements, negotiated contract terminations, handled protested construction contract award on behalf of issuing client and analyzed federal contracts and the consistent with Federal Acquisition Regulation for environmental cleanup matter. 

Ms. Loehr has also provided legal services to a state university regarding tenure, admissions, student conduct, student disciplinary action, university indemnification and sponsored projects.

In addition to her legal experience, Ms. Loehr has 15 years of experience in environmental, geologic, and engineering projects, twelve of which were in support of the United States Department of Energy.  Ms. Loehr has also worked in base and precious metal exploration in the mining industry.