Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

Congress attempted to correct that deficiency and other air pollution problems in a series of amendments to the 1963 act passed in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969. The 1965 amendments, for example, authorized the secretary of health, education and welfare to establish nationwide standards for automobile exhaust emissions. This legislation and later amendments also authorized the surgeon general to study the effects of air pollutants on human health, expanded local air quality programs, set compliance deadlines for meeting new air quality standards, established air quality control regions (AQCRs), and authorized research on low emission fuels and more fuel-efficient automobiles. 

Upjohn filed suit in the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Michigan to stop the FDA from removing the drugs and named Robert H. Finch, secretary of health, education, and welfare, and Herbert L. Ley, commissioner of the FDA, as defendants. With sales of the drugs reaching 30 million a year, Upjohn had a considerable stake in the case. The district judge issued an injunction to prevent the FDA from enforcing its order and then considered the merits of the suit. 

In October, 1978, the first annual National Hospice Organizing Meeting took place in Washington, DC. the two keynote speakers were Senator Edward Kennedy, now chairman of the Serrate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate Public Health Committee, and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano. 

Section 104 of the CWA provides sufficient authority to the EPA Administrator in the areas of research and data collection for the Agency to conduct and promote coordination of research, investigations, experiments, surveys, and studies ... relating to the causes, effects. .. reduction. .. and elimination of pollution. [ 104(a)(l)]. The CWA [ 104(c)] also allows cooperative administrative efforts on research with agencies such as the ... Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Health and Human Services). For multimedia pollutants like Pb, there is the statutory wherewithal to look at Pb contained in environmental media other than ambient waters. 

Required that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (now Health and Human Services) prohibit the use of lead-based paint in residential structures constructed or maintained by the Federal government or those units getting Federal assistance in any form the LBPPPA defined lead paint as that paint having more than 1% Pb content. 

J. W. Gardner (b 1912), Administrator, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1965-1968. 

Marihuana and Health (1975) Fifth Annual Report to the U.S. Congress from the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. NIDA, Rockville, Md. 

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