W. Early

Attorney with Stites & Harbison
Mr. Early’s work with industry includes advice on compliance, permitting, transactions, response to enforcement actions, participation in regulatory development, and related administrative and civil litigation. He has extensive experience with matters involving the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA, RCRA, mining and reclamation, sustainability, and agriculture. He is former chair of the American Bar Association’s Water Quality and Wetlands Committee of the Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, and he is a past chair of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Environmental Section. Before law, Mr. Early was a professor of Biology and chair of the Biology Department at Cumberland College in Williamsburg, Kentucky. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Biology from the University of Louisville, and a J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky.