Roady testifies before House subcommittee on Endangered Species Act
Roady, who is also a professor of the practice at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, commented on three bills in Congress related to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that he described as “inconsistent with the central purposes of that Act.”
Senior Lecturing Fellow Stephen Roady
Senior Lecturing Fellow Stephen E. Roady ’76 testified at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries on Oct. 25.
Roady, who is also a professor of the practice at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, commented on three bills in Congress related to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that he described as “inconsistent with the central purposes of that Act.”
“The importance of the ESA has never been more evident. Scientists agree that we are in the midst of an unprecedented biodiversity crisis: worldwide, we are losing species at a rate unparalleled in human history,” Roady said.
“This crisis threatens the ecosystems upon which we all depend and has the potential to threaten not only our environment, but also public health.”
Roady joined the Duke faculty in 2016 after practicing environmental law in Washington for 40 years. At the Law School, he has taught Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy, Environmental Litigation, and the Rethinking Federal Regulation course in the Duke in D.C. program.
Read Roady’s written testimony here.