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Indiana Law Journal

Environmental Law

ESA

2008

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Uncertainty And The Endangered Species Act, Teresa Woods, Steve Morey Apr 2008

Uncertainty And The Endangered Species Act, Teresa Woods, Steve Morey

Indiana Law Journal

The U.S. Endangered Species Act requires the US. Fish and Wildlife Service to use the "best available" information when deciding whether to list species as threatened or endangered, and when regulating conservation for species already listed. The agency has discretion to determine the types, quantity, and quality of the information it uses as "best available, "but little discretion to defer decision making in cases where important scientific information is lacking. Complexities of nature, obscurity of many species' life history, and changing environmental circumstances are only some of the reasons why information is rarely complete, and why decisions are almost always …


The Divides Of Environmental Law And The Problem Of Harm In The Endangered Species Act, Robert L. Fischman Apr 2008

The Divides Of Environmental Law And The Problem Of Harm In The Endangered Species Act, Robert L. Fischman

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Missing Information: The Scientific Data Gap in Conservation and Chemical Regulation, held on March 24, 2006 at Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington.