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This is no renegade operation: Bush, chief of staff John Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman are fully apprised of the panel's activities. When such agencies as the EPA and the White House differ over how aggressively to implement a law, the council moves in to referee. Staffed by fewer than a dozen officials, who are, even by Bush White House standards, unusually conservative, the council regularly sides with business against the environment. Even Administration officials marvel at how powerful the body has become. "Because Quayle has Bush's total confidence," said a former Administration official, "nobody can touch...
...REILLY's unhappy too, and may jump ship. The Environmental Protection Agency director has been telling friends that he is tired of trying to do the right thing on clean air and other issues only to be stymied by more powerful Administration free-marketeers like John Sununu and Richard Darman. President Bush admires Reilly's grit. But Reilly complains that he is becoming the President's environmental poster child and may have to leave to preserve his integrity...
...election season approaches, senior Republicans are worried that White House chief of staff John Sununu is burrowing deeper into his bunker, refusing to listen much to anyone except budgetmeister Richard Darman and domestic policy chief Roger Porter. Longtime Bush confidants are miffed at Sununu's recent practice of cutting them off at the pass and having a junior aide return their calls, dictate marching orders to them, and even respond to their letters to Bush. So how is a honcho to convey his thoughts to the President? Last month Bush himself opened up a new back channel, giving...
...unmanageable boondoggle. "NASA is obsessed with giantism," contends Robert Park, director of the Washington office of the American Physical Society. "They want to accomplish good, solid environmental science," he says, but have proposed to do it with complex, untested hardware. The mammoth price tag is also a concern. Richard Darman, head of the Office of Management and Budget, reportedly quipped, "I didn't know we needed a $30 billion thermometer...
...report's main benefit could be to reinforce a new spirit of cooperation between the sniping Administration factions. Last year Reilly won a major victory when Congress passed the Clean Air Act over Darman's objections. But Darman and Sununu had seemed to have the upper hand, and the President's ear, on global warming. Bush campaigned on the promise to curb the increase of greenhouse gases, which are produced chiefly by the burning of coal and oil. But the emissions are the exhaust of an industrial economy that Bush is loath to regulate. His instinct was strengthened...