Mr. Glitzenstein has successfully litigated many significant Endangered Species Act and other wildlife cases, including Fund for Animals v. Lujan (resulting in settlement expediting listing decisions on over 400 imperilled species); Save the Manatee Club v. Ballard (settlement agreement requiring federal government to establish new refuges and sanctuaries for manatees and to restrict permitting of new projects in manatee habitat); Defenders of Wildlife v. Babbitt (setting aside the Interior Department's refusal to list the Canada lynx as an endangered species); Fund for Animals v. Babbitt (requiring the FWS to prepare a new Recovery Plan for the grizzly bear); Defenders of Wildlife v. Corps of Engineers (enjoining reliance on Army Corps of Engineers nationwide permits in critical habitat of pygmy-owl); Mt. Graham Coalition v. Thomas (halting telescope project in critical habitat of endangered red squirrel); Defenders of Wildlife v. Norton (finding that the FWS violated the ESA when it issued an "incidental take permit" for the endangered Delmarva Fox Squirrel); Spirit of the Sage Council v. Babbitt (ongoing challenge to "No Surprises" policy).

Mr. Glitzenstein has also testified before Congress on several occasions concerning implementation and enforcement of the ESA and other wildlife protection laws. He is also President of the Wildlife Advocacy Project, a non-profit organization created to assist grassroots organizations in their wildlife protection efforts.

Mr. Glitzenstein was previously a staff attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group (1982-1989), a law clerk to Judge Thomas A. Flannery of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1981-82), and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (1992-1998). He received his law degree from Georgetown (magna cum laude) in 1981 and his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1978.

Prior to joining TRC, Michael was an environmental attorney for 14 years. He graduated from Williams College (1980) and Yale Law School (1984, Editor, Yale Law Journal). Michael was also a law clerk for the Honorable Albert W. Coffrin, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Vermont. As a DOJ trial attorney, Michael received awards for Outstanding Service and Special Achievement. Michael serves on the Boards of the Chemical Waste Litigation Reporter, the EPA Administrative Law Reporter, and the Vermont Law School Environmental Law Center.

1LT/CPT Lang (a distinguished ROTC graduate, on deferment for graduate study) entered active duty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and attended the Engineer Officer Basic Course at Ft. Belvoir, VA. He spent a year with the Engineer Strategic Studies Center (ESSC) in Washington, D.C. and then served a year in the Republic of South Vietnam with the US Army Construction Agency, Vietnam/HQ US Army, Vietnam where he was Chief of the Management Analysis Division in the Construction Directorate. Upon returning to the States and being discharged from the Army, Dr. Lang became a Registered Professional Engineer (PE) in Pennsylvania and worked as Chief Engineer for the Lang Construction Company. After working a year in the private sector, he returned to ESSC in Washington, D.C. as an Operations Research/Systems Analyst.

Dr. Lang rapidly rose through the analytical and consulting ranks (Analyst, Senior Analyst, Project Director, Senior Project Director and Acting Technical Director) in the ESSC organization and performed numerous studies for the Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense, where he traveled as a consultant to Europe, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Panama and to numerous locations in the United States. Several of his studies were cited for their high quality in the Army Study Highlights Publication. He attended the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair and graduated on the Commandant’s List in 1989. He then returned to ESSC as a Senior Project Director where he managed studies integrating activities across the broad spectrum of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer activities.

In 1998, Dr. Lang was assigned to the HQ, USACE as a Branch Chief in the Strategic Management and Innovations Division in the Deputy Chief of Staff, Resource Management Office. In that position, he worked on numerous assignments ranging from coordination with the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR), Commercial Activities (A-76), Customer Surveys and strategic planning activities for the Corps of Engineers. He attended the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership in a Democratic Society Program in April 2000.

In spring 2000, Dr. Lang became the Deputy Chief of the Operations Division in the Civil Works Directorate at HQ USACE — his current position. As deputy he assists the Division Chief in setting policy and monitoring the Operations and Maintenance of all the completed Corps civil works projects — covering Navigation, Hydropower, Recreation, Environmental Stewardship, Flood Damage Reduction, Emergency Management and Regulatory programs.

Dr. Lang lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and son.

Competition remains Rep. Markey's economic mantra — in his words, "ruthless Darwinian competition that would bring a smile to Adam Smith." Accordingly, he has been instrumental in breaking up anti-consumer, anti-innovative monopolies in electricity, long-distance and local telephone service, cable television, and international satellite services. He was one of the only members of the Commerce Committee to fight AT&T's monopoly in the early 80s and is a principal author of the requirement that the Bell Operating companies accept local telephone service in the 90s. His pro-competition policies have directly benefited job creation in Eastern Massachusetts and throughout the country.

In the 107th Congress, Rep. Markey remains very active on telecommunications issues, working to ensure new sources of effective competition to cable TV franchises, local telephone operators, and satellite services. Moreover, he is leading the House effort to preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness. He is also a Congressional spokeperson on energy policy generally, a key voice for providing privacy protections for personal information such as medical records, financial records, and purchases on-line. He co-founded the Congressional Caucus on Privacy. He also chairs a bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease, as well as the Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation Policy.

He is the third most senior Democrat on the full Energy and Commerce Committee, where he serves on three subcommittees: Telecommunications and the Internet (Ranking Democrat), Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, and Energy and Air Quality. He is also the second most senior Democrat on the full Resources Committee, where he serves on the Energy and Minerals subcommittee.

His legislative record spans the breadth of Congressional policymaking, as befits a national leader with a commitment to a district which includes both blue-collar and high-tech suburbs north and west of downtown Boston.

Here is just a sampling of this record:

• Capping a 10-year effort to provide a cushion against spikes in energy prices in the Northeast, Ed Markey championed and won the battle for a Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve in 2000.
• Ed won a change in 2000 in the definition of "homebound" under federal Medicare regulations that freed Alzheimer's patients to attend religious services or adult day-care without jeopardizing their in-home skilled nursing assistance.
• The wireless carry-it-in-your-pocket digital phone revolution was accelerated dramatically when Ed Markey's legislation moved precious airwave frequencies from obsolete Cold-War defense uses to the civilian private sector.
• Ed Markey has led the effort to bridge the gap between the information "haves" and "have-nots" in our society by legislating the "E-Rate", which provides telephone rate discounts to connect every school classroom and public library to the Internet.
• We enjoy three weeks of afterwork sunshine every spring because Ed Markey championed the Daylight Saving Time Extension Act of 1985, moving the start date of Daylight Savings Time to the first Sunday in April.
• Ed Markey's 1997 legislation to set minimum energy efficiency standards for major energy-consuming household appliances such as refrigerators and washer-dryers reduced energy demand dramatically and preserved thousands of acres of precious land and water that would otherwise have been needed to build 20 large electric powerplants.
• When your 6-year-old watches an educational program from your local commercial broadcaster, she is taking advantage of the 20-30 hours of educational programming for children required by Ed Markey's Children's Television Act of 1990.
• Rep. Markey is the author of the 1996 V-Chip law which led the TV industry to develop a TV ratings system to warn parents of violent or sexual content. Beginning in the summer of 1999, parents could buy TV sets that can be set to block automatically TV programs or movies that contain material rated as not appropriate for their children.
• Rep. Markey is the author of the Wholesale Electricity Competition law of 1992 which has saved businesses, universities and other wholesale consumers of electricity at least $5 billion each year in lower energy bills.
• Rep. Markey's Child On-Line Privacy legislation, which became law in 1998, addressed children's privacy on the Internet by helping to ensure that web-sites aimed at children provide mechanisms for parental consent before private information is sought or transmitted electronically.
• Rep. Markey's Cable Act of 1992 spurred the growth of the 18-inch satellite TV industry as a competitor to the local cable monopoly.
• Rep. Markey insisted on the open-access provision in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that makes it possible for small upstarts like RCN to compete for local cable and telephone customers simultaneously.
• Ed Markey forced the cleanup of the Woburn hazardous waste site, among many others, by working to pass the Superfund law, and then defending this landmark environmental statute, resisting, for example, the effort to rebate tax dollars to polluters.
• He has also led the opposition to efforts to override environmental protections with respect to the transportation and burial of high-level radioactive waste and was the author of a provision in the Clean Air Act that rewarded utilities that adopt energy efficiency strategies to reduce air pollution.
• When you invest in the stock market, your nest egg is safer and less vulnerable to fraud or insider trading because of Rep. Markey's reforms of the stock, bond and mutual fund markets that were hailed by SEC Chairman Richard Breeden as "the most significant legislative reform of Wall Street" in 30 years.
• Ed Markey issued a seminal report in 1985 entitled "Nuclear Guinea Pigs" which became the basis for a Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper expose and apologies by our government for sponsoring radioactive experiments on human subjects without their informed consent.
• Another Markey report in 1982 revealed vast and illegal underpayments of royalties owed by large coal companies for mining on public lands. The ensuing furor ultimately led to the resignation of the Secretary of Interior, James Watt.

He is married to Dr. Susan Blumenthal.

Mr. Scherr is currently working with other NRDC staff on a range of matters, including on the follow up to the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and the preservation of threatened "biogems" — special natural areas — through out the Americas. He has been engaged in numerous legal and administrative proceedings; testified before Congressional committees, published articles, chapters, and reports; and addressed university, professional, and public audiences. Mr. Scherr has worked extensively with the media. He produced both NRDC’s first nationally televised presentation and advocacy advertising campaign.

Mr. Scherr is President of Earth Summit Watch, which he founded to monitor national implementation of the commitments to sustainable development made at the 1992 Earth Summit. He also serves as President of the Herbert Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellowship.

Mr. Scherr is a 1970 graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1974, he received his JD with highest honors from the University of Maryland Law School in 1974. Prior to joining NRDC, he was a Fellow at the American Society of International Law and a lecturer in International Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.