Whit Swift

Practice Areas

Advises industrial companies on air quality matters, such as state and federal new source review permitting strategy and Title V operating permit matters. In connection with that permitting work, has represented applicants in multiple contested permit matters before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings relating to both air quality and wastewater discharge permits.

In addition to permitting work, also assists major manufacturing, energy, chemical and petrochemical companies with compliance issues related to the Clean Air Act (CAA). CAA compliance work includes auditing, compliance counseling, and enforcement defense work under state and federal programs, including the federal Risk Management Plan program, federal regulatory requirements governing sources of hazardous air pollutants (National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants), release reporting, and State Implementation Plan rules regulating point sources.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas, Environmental & Natural Resources Law Section; Austin Bar Association

Personal

JD, The University of Texas School of Law, 1996, Order of the Coif; BA, Washington and Lee University, 1993