§22-23-1. Findings and Purposes

The West Virginia Legislature hereby finds that: (a) The United States is a signatory to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Global Climate Change Treaty("FCCC"); (b) A protocol to expand the scope of the FCCC was negotiated in December, 1997in Kyoto, Japan ("Kyoto Protocol"), requiring the United States to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases […]

§22-23-2. Restrictions on State Rules Related to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

(a) The West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection shall refrain from proposing or promulgating any new rule intended, in whole or in part, to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases from the residential, commercial, industrial, electric utility or transportation sectors in order to comply with the Kyoto Protocol; (b) In the absence of an act of […]