Three key EPA scientists resigned in protest. The new Clean Air Act has weak provisions controlling toxic air emissions. The Quayle Council has tried to make them even weaker. The Council has inserted language into EPA's proposed rules that would allow polluters to re-write their own permits, giving themselves leeway to dump additional toxins into the air. Under Council proposals, the public would not have to be notified as companies re-wrote their own permits, the EPA itself would not even be asked for comment, and neighboring states would have no say.
Municipal incinerators are the largest source of lead emissions into the environment.
The Council is clearly a secret government within our government. It gets the President's dirty work done quietly, forcefully and without any of those pesky trimmings of democracy.