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Chip Babst is a founding shareholder in the Environmental Health and Safety Services Group of Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C. Mr. Babst has more than thirty-five years of experience in providing counsel on environmental matters to both private and public clients. His practice focuses on compliance and permitting issues and multi-media enforcement. Through his experience as environmental counsel for large Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Babst has developed preventative law programs for training and auditing, and a detailed program on how to prepare for and deal with environmental inspections.
Mr. Babst is a nationally recognized authority on Clean Air Act issues and has handled complex permitting and compliance issues at federal, state and local levels throughout the United States. His experience in dealing with federal and state agency penalty policies and enforcement processes has enabled him to assist clients in negotiating acceptable settlements in environmental enforcement cases involving significant demands for civil penalties and injunctive relief. He also has represented clients in administrative and judicial hearings at the state and federal levels and has presented environmental issues before the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Background
Mr. Babst received his B.A. from Bucknell University in 1969 and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973, where he was Topics and Research Editor of the Law Review.
Memberships and Affiliations
Mr. Babst was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1973 and admitted to the West Virginia Bar in 2000. Presently, he is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Bar Associations. Mr. Babst has been named in the Environmental Section of The Best Lawyers in America® since 1993, and in the highest rated category for environmental lawyers in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers since 2003. He has also been recognized as one of Pennsylvania’s top lawyers and one of Pittsburgh’s top 50 lawyers, according to an annual survey published in Philadelphia magazine.
Mr. Babst is the Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Environmental Certificate Program, a member of the Allegheny County Health Department Air Pollution Control Advisory Committee, a member of the Science Advisory Committee at Robert Morris University, a member of American College of Environmental Lawyers, a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Association Foundation, the Treasurer of the Allegheny County Parks Foundation, and the Vice Chairman of the Allegheny County Air Quality Task Force. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Community-in-Schools of Allegheny County as its Chairman, the Circles Board of Directors of the Cultural Trust as its Co-Chairman, the Institutional Development Advisory Committee of the Cultural Trust, and the Board of Directors of the Warhol Museum.
Publications/Presentations
- Babst, Chester and Donofrio, Colleen Grace. “Have You Conducted a Multimedia Environmental Audit Lately?" Mountain State Manufacturing. Spring 2004.
- Babst, Chester, Donofrio, Colleen Grace, and Heintz, John K. “Multimedia Environmental Audit Issues Confronting Steel in the 21st Century," presented at the 2003 Association of Iron and Steel Engineers’ Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, September 29, 2003.
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