Rebecca Riley
Managing Director, Nature Program
Rebecca Riley focuses on legal and policy issues related to wildlife and endangered species. Before joining NRDC, she was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and clerked for a federal judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Riley is a graduate of the University of Toledo and Harvard Law School. She is based in Chicago.
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These 5 Animals Would Be Goners Without the Endangered Species Act
ExplainerUnited States, InternationalJason Bittel
They’re just a handful of the hundreds of species that would be extinct without the 43-year-old law.
Lake Erie’s New Invasive Species May Be Tiny, But Its Ranks Run Deep
DispatchMidwestJason Bittel
Here are billions of new reasons Congress shouldn’t go soft on ballast water.
From Moose to Monarchs, Wildlife in the Heartland Needs the Endangered Species Act
DispatchMidwestSusan Cosier
This conservation law has been saving our flora and fauna since the 1970s. The Trump administration should stop fiddling with it.