The very test under the Endangered Species Act is supposed to be ‘What is the best available science?'”
In a Q&A, Animal Law & Policy Clinic director describes what is at stake in SCOTUS Freedom of Information Act case brought by the Sierra Club
By Sarah Pickering, Harvard Law Today, Aug. 12, 2020
Should the public get a window into the factors federal agencies considered—or ignored—when devising important environmental, health and safety regulations, or would exposing those internal discussions to public scrutiny chill deliberations? That is the question underlying an amicus brief that the Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic recently filed in the United States Supreme Court in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case brought by the Sierra Club and involving the public’s right of access to scientific analyses concerning the adverse impacts of federal actions on endangered and threatened species.
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