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Supreme Court syllabus for Massachusetts v. EPA case regarding EPA’s denial of petition to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. The Court ruled that petitioners have standing to challenge EPA’s denial and that the agency must consider regulating greenhouse gases.

December 31 , 1970 A N A C T [H. R. 17255] Xo amend the Clean Air Act to provide for a more effective program to improve the quality of the Nation's air. Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress asseinbled^ That this Act may be cited as the "Clean Air Amendments of 1970". Clean Air Amendments of 1970. Stat. 486. u s e 1857b. Appropriation. u s e 1857b-l . RESEARCH SEC. 2. (a) Section 103 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857, et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(f) (1) In cari*ying out research pursuant to this Act, the Admin- istrator shall give special emphasis to research on the short- and long- term effects of air pollutants on public health and welfare. In the furtherance of such research, he shall conduct an accelerated research program— "(A) to improve knowledge of the contribution of air pol- lutants to the occurrence of adverse effects on health, including, but not limited to, behavioral, physiological, toxicological, and bio- chemical effects; and " (B) to improve knowledge.of the short-and long-term effects of air pollutants on welfare. "(2) In carrying out the provisions of this subsection the Admin- istrator may— " (A) conduct epidemiological studies of the effects of air pol- lutants on mortality and morbidity; " (B) conduct clinical and laboratory studies on the immuno- logic, biochemical, physiological, and the toxicological effects including…