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West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

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What Is an Advisory Opinion?

Cagan calls this an advisory opinion. The history of it stems primarily from a two thousand case called fda v brown and williamson, where the court held that the fda could not regulate tobacco. Cagan: It's like a shot across the bow of the e p a and the bite administration. Like, if you try to be aggressive in regulating the energy industry, we are here for them. We are their shield and their sword. Doyou not mess with my large coal omitting son.

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