El Paso colleges will not require students to be vaccinated to attend school in person in the fall.
Several colleges and universities across the nation have said they will require that students get a COVID-19 vaccine before returning to campuses in the fall, but this has not yet spread to most Texas colleges.
On April 5, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a ban on state agencies and other taxpayer-funded entities from requiring vaccine passports or requiring individuals to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status to receive services in Texas. The governor s ban was made through Executive Order No. GA-35.
Though it appears major Texas colleges and universities, particularly publicly funded schools, have largely steered away from requiring students to be vaccinated, some universities will require COVID-19 vaccinations.
7 On April 13, Kevin F. Mooney was presented with the Navy’s Distinguished Civilian Service Award (DCSA) for his service as Executive Director, Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center Jacksonville, and Executive Director, Commander Navy Region Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia from September 2011 to February 2020.
The Navy Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor the Secretary of the Navy can confer upon civilian members of the Department of the Navy, and is typically reserved for those whose contributions to the Department of the Navy are exceptional in their scope and merit.
Having been previously endorsed by the Secretary of the Navy as a nominee for the Department of Defense’s 65th DCSA, Mooney was unaware of his nomination by NAVSUP to the Department of the Navy for its equivalent award. NAVSUP FLC Jacksonville Commanding Officer, Capt. William H. Clarke was pleased to surprise Mooney with the award presentation during a virtual
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President Joe Biden (left) greets John Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, on Jan. 27 as he arrives at the White House to speak on climate change. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
In February, Beverly Wright linked the legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow era with energy development. In March, President Joe Biden appointed Wright to his White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
Wright, the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, is joined on the council by Jade Begay of the Indigenous Environmental Network, who co-wrote a 2018 op-ed in EcoWatch contending that climate change is “colonialism” and “cultural genocide.”