Whit Swift advises industrial companies on air quality matters, with an emphasis on state and federal new source review permitting and Title V operating permit matters. He regularly works with clients to develop permitting strategies aimed at expediting permit timelines and minimizing permit risk. In connection with that permitting work, he has also represented a number of applicants in contested permit matters before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).

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