Collaborating to Nowhere: The Imperative of Government Accountability for Restoring the Chesapeake Bay

This Article opens with an analysis of why the Chesapeake Bay Program will repeat its past failures unless a reliable mechanism for ensuring accountability is created. It then explains how the independent evaluator should be constructed to make possible the overall success of Bay restoration. Finally, it closes with a rebuttal of the arguments in favor of self-auditing and against independent review.