About the Authors

• Author: Margaret 'Peggy' Strand/Lowell Rothschild
• Pages: 13-13

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About the Authors

Margaret “Peggy” Strand is a partner at Venable, LLP in Wash-

ington, D.C. Ms. Strand has substantial experience advising on the

regulatory requirements of federal and state law, including wet-

lands, natural resources, protected species, climate change, and

pollution control. She was Chief of the Environmental Defense

Section in the U.S. Justice Department, Environmental and Natu-

ral Resources Division, from 1984 to 1991, and served as a Justice

Department trial attorney and supervisor since 1976. Ms. Strand is

active with the National Academy of Sciences, as she currently

chairs the Environmental Law Committee of the Transportation

Research Board and has served on the Academy’s Board on Envi-

ronmental Studies and Toxicology. She has also participated in

various Academy study committees evaluating wetlands and other

environmental topics.

She is past chair of the American Bar Association’s Water Quality

and Wetlands Committee, Section on Environment, Energy, and

Resources Law (SEER) and serves on the ALI-ABA Advisory Committee on Environmental Law. She is a

regular chair and speaker on wetlands and species protection topics for ALI-ABA and other bar organizations.

She has also served on the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute, the Editorial Board of the

Environmental Law Reporter, and the Advisory Board for the National Wetlands Newsletter.

Lowell Rothschild, Senior Counsel at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP,

is an environmental litigator focusing on natural resource issues

such as wetlands, endangered species, and environmental review

(NEPA). For over 20 years, he has represented private, public, gov-

ernmental, and quasi-governmental clients working in the oil and

gas, natural resource extraction, and infrastructure development

sectors in obtaining and defending permits and responding to alle-

gations of legal noncompliance, through both internal investiga-

tions and litigation.

Mr. Rothschild’s practice has included cases before the U.S.

Supreme Court, multiple federal circuit and district courts, and

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of

the Interior administrative tribunals. He is a member of the Trade

and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade

Representative and was formerly the primary in-house environ-

mental counsel for the world’s largest integrated phosphate and

potash (fertilizer) supplier.