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1970 Clean Air Act was intended to cover carbon dioxide
w study finds evidence that Congress intended for the 1970 Clean Air Act to cover carbon dioxide emissions. The finding strengthens the legal case for regulating heat-trapping gases.
Reports for presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon warned of planetary warming, and such information began to penetrate the public consciousness as Americans learned about the greenhouse effect by reading popular magazines, watching television, or in school. In a 1969 appearance on the Merv Griffin Show, beat poet Allen Ginsberg decried how “the current rate of air pollution brought about by the proliferation of automobiles” could cause “the rapid build-up of heat on the Earth.” The study, soon to be published in Ecology Law Quarterly, concludes that Congress “understood far more about the potential threat of anthropogenic climate change than either the [Supreme] Court or most commentators have recognized.”
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