National environmental policy: coordination or confusion?
North Texas State University Denton, Texas 76203 In recent months there has been considerable controversy involving the role and effectiveness of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). This controversy emanates from the divergent opinions of the role that CEQ has assumed to ensure adequate protection of the environment and the concomitant costs to operate CEQ programs,’ and the role its critics see mandated for the CEQ under PL 91-190. To gain a proper perspective of the functioning of the CEQ, it is useful to compare and contrast the intended coordinative role of the CEQ as a governing board with its actual activities since its formation.