- Chairman, Environmental Law Section, State Bar of Georgia (2012)
Education
- University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Talmadge Moot Court Competition Winner, 2003, National Moot Court Team (2001-2003)
- University of Georgia, B.B.A., 1998
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Court Admissions
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- “Legal and Practical Implications from New and Anticipated Air Regulations,” Annual Georgia Environmental Conference 2025, August 20, 2025.
- “EPA Region 4 Air Update and Upcoming Changes: Legal Perspective,” 16th Annual Georgia Environmental Conference, August 23, 2023.
- “The State of Air: NC DEQ Division Director Discussion,” North Carolina Chamber Environmental Conference, February 2022.
- “Environmental Cost Determination: Improving and Modernizing Cost-Benefit Analysis in Rulemaking Process,” Strafford Webinar, February 2022.
- “Managing Environmental Compliance,” Georgia Institute of Technology, semiannually March 2007 through March 2021.
- “The State of Air: NC DEQ Division Director Discussion,” North Carolina Chamber Environmental Conference, February 5, 2020.
- “Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfill Air Rules: Transitioning from Old to New,” Air & Waste Management Association Webinar, December 11, 2019.
- “Two Air Topics: Ozone and SSM,” Georgia Association of Manufacturers, August 28, 2019.
- “NSR Changes,” Georgia Environmental Conference, August 2, 2019.
- “The State of Air: NC DEQ Division Director Discussion,” North Carolina Chamber Environmental Conference, February 6, 2019.
- “Clean Air Act Compliance & Enforcement,” Strafford Webinar, February 27, 2018.
- “Can Trump Turn the Battleship?,” Energy, Utility and Environment Conference (EUEC), March 6, 2018.
- “Clean Air Act Legal Update,” Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA), September 21, 2017.
- “Regional Haze: Round 2 Is Just Around the Corner,” Electric Utility & Environment Conference, February 2017.
- “Air Regulations for Asphalt Companies,” Virginia Asphalt Association, January 2017.
- “Compliance With the Clean Power Plan,” Electric Utility & Environment Conference, February 2016.
- “EPA’s Clean Power Plan: A Climate Game Changer,” Bloomberg BNA Webinar, September 3, 2015.
- “EPA Issues ‘SIP Call’ Requiring New Rules for Startup, Shutdown, and Malfunction Emissions,” Bloomberg BNA Webinar, July 23, 2015.
- “Regulatory Update: The Clean Air Act,” Southern States Energy Board 2015 Briefing to Southern Legislators, July 18, 2015.
- Co-author, “Are We There Yet? The Challenges of Litigating Clean Air Act Rules,” American Bar Association’s Natural Resources & Environment, Summer 2021.
- Co-author, “Montana District Court Vacates EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule,” POWER Magazine, February 4, 2021.
- Author, “Reforming New Source Review: What Project Emissions Accounting Really Means, and Why It Should Survive,” American Bar Association’s Natural Resources & Environment, July 27, 2020.
- Author, “How the Affordable Clean Energy Rule Impacts Oil and Gas,” Law360, October 17, 2018.
- Author, “Look Out—EPA Is Repowering Its Hazy Visibility Program,” Natural Gas & Electricity, September 2016.
- Author, “2016 to Be Litigation-Heavy, as Obama EPA Wraps Up Its Air Agenda,” Natural Gas & Electricity, February 2016.
- Co-author, “Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act: Is the Bubble About to Burst?,” George Washington University Law School Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, Winter 2016.
- Author, “Supreme Court Rules EPA Must Consider Cost,” Terralex Connections, September 2015.
- Author, “2015 to Be the Year of Final Air-Quality Regulations,” Natural Gas & Electricity, February 2015.
- Co-author, “Global Warming Solutions: Regulatory Challenges and Common Law Liabilities Associated With the Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide,” 6 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 429 (2008).
- Quoted, “Biggest Environmental Policy Actions of 2021,” Law360, December 21, 2021.
- Quoted, “Politics, Strict Interpretation Infuse EPA Methane Reg Rollback,” Law360, August 14, 2020.
- Quoted, “Is Biomass Dead?,” Power Mag, February 3, 2020.