Council on Environmental Quality
institution
A quiet council was set up to advise the president on the environment, but it also helped build a system that manages nature like a machine.
Who they are
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), created after the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed[1].
What they do
The record calls it a regulatory arm of a new predictive order.
How it works
NEPA led the president to establish the CEQ and name Russell Train as its first chairman. In its 1993 Annual Report, the CEQ recommended creating the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force. The Task Force's stated mission was to restore and maintain the health, sustainability, and biological diversity of ecosystems while supporting communities and their economic base. The record notes that the CEQ's recommendation does not establish that it directed or controlled the Task Force's operations or conclusions.
Why it matters
It shows how an advisory council can help set up bodies that shape environmental policy, even if it does not directly run them.
The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "Meanwhile, domestic agencies like the EPA and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) were stood up as regulatory arms of this new predictive order." It is presented publicly as: "Regardless, the Council on Environmental Quality , in their 1993 Annual Report , recommended the creation of the ‘ Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force ‘ with a stated mission ‘To restore and maintain the health, sustainability, and biological diversity of ecosystems while supporting communities and their economic base.‘" Documents named in the corpus: National Environmental Policy Act; 1993 Annual Report; Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force. Cross-sourced to en.wikipedia.org, epa.gov, nsarchive.gwu.edu — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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documents
Interagency Ecosystem Management Task ForceCEQ recommended creation of the Task Force in its 1993 Annual Report [Council on Environmental Quality 1993 Annual Report, 1993] — does not establish: That CEQ
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Russell Trainperson moving between them — chairman of the newly formed CEQ — does not establish: Does not establish that the CEQ directed the Conservation Foundation.
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