Open AccessNearly Extinct in the Wild: The Vulnerable Transparency of the Endangered Species List
Author(s) -
Benjamin W. Cramer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of civic information
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2641-970X
DOI - 10.32473/joci.v3i2.128355
Subject(s) - endangered species , transparency (behavior) , creatures , statute , agency (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , open government , political science , law , geography , ecology , biology , sociology , habitat , archaeology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , natural (archaeology)
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.