Thomas R Wood

Practice Areas

Thomas Wood practices in the area of environmental law, focusing predominantly on air permitting matters, although he also has extensive experience with EPCRA reporting, waste regulation, and stormwater and wastewater management. Tom has handled all types of enforcement (civil, criminal, and citizen suit) and worked on multiple high-stakes nuisance matters. While he works primarily in Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, and Montana, he has assisted clients on issues across the United States and has worked in all 10 EPA regions on a broad variety of permitting and enforcement matters.

Under state and federal Clean Air Act matters, Tom has helped clients find solutions to Title V permitting and compliance, new source review (including Prevention of Significant Deterioration or PSD, nonattainment and maintenance area), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP or MACT standards), New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), Acid Rain, Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT) assessments, Regional Haze, greenhouse gas regulation, nuisance odor, nuisance dust, emission offsets, and many other esoteric aspects of air regulation.

Professional Memberships

- Chair person, Associated Oregon Industries, Air and Energy Committee