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Does the Clean Air Act Require EPA to Regulate Greenhouse-Gas Emissions?
An Amicus Brief in Massachusetts vs. EPA
 
Several states and environmental groups are asking the Supreme Court to rule that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act and that EPA must therefore regulate emissions.
 

Visiting Fellow Joel Schwartz  
Visiting Fellow Joel Schwartz
 
The Brief of Amici Curiae Climate Scientists David Battisti, et al., in Support of Petitioners (“CS Brief”) is founded upon the unsupported notion that the net effect of increasing greenhouse gases on human health and welfare is negative. It argues that greenhouse gas emissions “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare,” requiring “prompt regulatory action to restrain emissions of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.”

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Joel Schwartz is a visiting scholar at AEI.