Judge and Jury: The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is the judge that decides whether companies and organizations are complying with or violating the many regulations and laws that, when followed, preserve our environment. By serving the President, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) carries out his initiatives as they apply to environmental preservation, however oftentimes, the Council on Environmental Quality has buffered the President from wielding an unpopular decision considered by a few.
During the 1990s, a controversial proposal to redevelop the former Homestead Air Force Base into an airport between Everglades National Park and Biscayne National Park required the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to intervene. Everglades Betrayal - The Issue that Defeated Al Gore describes that these events could have been handled by the state if guiding regulations and policies had been respected. When environmental activists noticed egregious errors in the environmental impact statement that was produced in record time, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) stepped in.
Everglades Betrayal is an interesting study of how the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) exercises its authority for the benefit of the environment. It provides lessons for students of public land management, environmental conservation, land use planning, and politics. The Council on Environmental Quality serving President Clinton did not intend to affect the 2000 election, but it did.
Would things have turned out differently if the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) had been less engaged? Readers of Everglades Betrayal will make up their own minds, and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will carry on as it was intended to do.
The Everglades Betrayal – The Issue that Defeated Al Gore is now available to you online.
