HealthExec June 30, 2022
Amy Baxter

The Supreme Court has issued another landmark ruling, rolling back authorization of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to regulate greenhouse gas––and the healthcare industry isn’t happy about it.

Greenhouse gas contributes to climate change, which poses significant public health harms. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the EPA does not have broad authority to shift the nation’s energy production from coal power plants to other, greener sources of energy.

“The American Medical Association (AMA) is deeply disappointed with today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion restricting the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the carbon emissions that cause climate change and harm public health,” AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, said in a statement June 30. “Regulating and...

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