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West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency , 597 U.S. 697 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to the Clean Air Act , and the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate carbon dioxide emissions related to climate change .
In West Virginia v. EPA (2022), [24] the Supreme Court held, in a decision by Chief Justice Roberts that the phrase "best system of emission reduction [...] adequately demonstrated" (BSER) in section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. § 7411) did not allow EPA to set emissions standards based on phasing out coal or natural gas, but rather ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday broke with West Virginia's GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country's strictest school vaccination policies. West Virginia is only one of a handful of states in the U.S. that offers only medical exemptions to vaccine requirements.
The United States has a long history of school vaccination requirements. The first school vaccination requirement was enacted in the 1850s in Massachusetts to prevent the spread of smallpox. [20] The school vaccination requirement was put in place after the compulsory school attendance law caused a rapid increase in the number of children in ...
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West Virginia’s Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Thursday applauded the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling that limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to deal with power ...
The Vermont Supreme Court ruling this post references doesn’t permit schools to “force-vaccinate” students, it addresses whether a school was civilly liable for accidentally vaccinating the ...
Many U.S. colleges and universities, both public and privately owned, have started requiring students to be vaccinated before attending in-person classes in fall 2021. This has led to a black market in counterfeit CDC vaccination cards for students who want to violate this requirement instead of attending a different school. [28]