Nearly Extinct in the Wild: The Vulnerable Transparency of the Endangered Species List

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Abstract

This article reconstructs the Endangered Species Act as a government information statute. That Act makes use of an official list of vulnerable creatures that is used for agency action to save them from extinction. This article argues that the official list of species is not sufficiently accurate or transparent to citizens, so the compilation of that list does not satisfy the public interest goals of American environmental law or government transparency policy.

https://doi.org/10.32473/joci.v3i2.128355
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