Environmental Compliance and Sustainability

Daniel T. Rogers is the Director of Environmental Affairs at Amsted Industries Incorporated in Chicago, Illinois. Amsted Industries is a diversified manufacturing company of industrial components serving railroad, vehicular, construction, and building markets. Amsted Industries has more than 60 manufacturing locations in 15 countries. Mr. Rogers participates in environmental due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, investigation and remediation of contamination, creating and evaluating environmental compliance and sustainability programs, and providing environmental advice, oversight, training, and negotiation strategies at various levels within the organization.

Over the last few decades, Mr. Rogers has published nearly 100 research papers in professional and academic publications and peer-reviewed journals on subjects including environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology, environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield redevelopment, remediation, pollution prevention, environmental compliance, and sustainability. He is a coauthor of Urban Watersheds: Geology, Contamination and Sustainable Development (Taylor & Francis, 2011) and the author of Environmental Geology of Metropolitan Detroit (1996) and has published surficial geologic and contaminant vulnerability maps of the Rouge River watershed in southeastern Michigan. In addition, he is a contributing author of an encyclopedia of global social concerns.

He has taught geology and environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan and has presented guest lectures at numerous colleges and universities both in the United States and internationally.