Mack specializes in the Clean Air Act and helps clients obtain necessary permits, solve compliance challenges, and minimize enforcement risk by bridging the gap often found between technical realities and regulatory terminology.
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Mack is a partner in the firm's Atlanta office and has focused almost exclusively on air law since starting his practice in 2003. During that time, he has represented electric utility, landfill, manufacturing, and other industrial clients in connection with important air quality issues arising out of federal and state regulations governing the construction and operation of stationary sources of air emissions. He helps his clients obtain necessary permits, comply with applicable regulations, respond to enforcement actions, and participate in new rulemaking efforts at the state and federal levels. He also has extensive experience in litigation over air regulations.
The key to many air quality matters is, first, understanding the available data relevant to air emissions (which are often incomplete) and, second, applying the numerous potentially applicable and overlapping regulations (which are often ambiguous). Mack helps explain this intersection of real-world facts and administratively developed law in commonsense terms so that his clients can make smart business decisions to achieve compliance and minimize risk.
Mack has direct and extensive experience with the most controversial Clean Air Act programs, including:
In addition, Mack has assisted numerous clients with lesser-known Clean Air Act programs, including those that regulate ozone-depleting substances used in refrigerant appliances, hazardous air pollutants emitted by reciprocating internal combustion engines, and nonhazardous secondary materials combustion.
Environmental Law and Policy Monitor
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EPA Lowers Annual PM2.5 NAAQS, With Immediate Impacts for Air Permitting
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01.17.24
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Articles + Publications
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Air and Climate Report: January 2024
Speaking Engagements
08.23.23
16th Annual Georgia Environmental Conference
Environmental Law and Policy Monitor
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EPA’s New Carbon Standards for Power Plants Require Quick Decisions
Environmental Law and Policy Monitor
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2022 Air Quality and Climate Highlights