About the Authors

• Author: Oliver A. Houck/G. Tracy Mehan III
• Pages: 15-16

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About the Authors

Oliver A. Houck is a Professor of Law at Tulane

University Law School. His specialties involve

environmental, natural resources, and criminal

law. He is active in legal proceedings involving

wildlife, wetland, coastal, and pollution issues

and publishes regularly on these and related top-

ics. He has published several books, including

Taking Back Eden (on environmental lawsuits

abroad), Down on the Batture (on the Lower

Mississippi River), e Clean Water Act TMDL

Program (pollution control), and most recently Downstream Toward Home

(on rivers of North America). He also has written extensively for academic

journals and general interest publications.

Houck served as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and as National

Wildlife Federation general counsel and vice president before joining the

Tulane law faculty in 1981. He has since served on the boards of Defenders of

Wildlife, the Environmental Law Institute, and the Environmental Defense

Fund, an advisory board of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and two

committees of the National Science Foundation. He has also founded several

public interest organizations in Louisiana and at Tulane Law School and has

consulted on the development of environmental law in Cuba and other Latin

American countries.

G. Tracy Mehan III is Executive Director of

Government Aairs for the American Water

Works Association. Mehan has a long a nd

accomplished career in natural resources and

environmental protection. For much of 2015,

he served as Interim President of the U.S. Water

Alliance and national Source Water Coordinator

for the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Com-

munities. He was a Principal with e Cad mus

Group, Inc., an environmental consulting rm,

from 2004 to 2014. He also served as Assist ant Administrator for Water at

the U.S. Environmental Protection A gency (EPA), pursuant to presidential

appointment and U.S. Senate conrmation, from 2001-2003. In that capac-