April 3, 2023 – Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 21 other states in a letter opposing the Biden Administration’s Department of Energy’s new regulations, which would prohibit gas stoves that do not meet the new environmental standards. This would ban the sales of over half of all currently available gas stoves. In the Biden Administration’s… Read more »
March 29, 2023 – A federal court judge has lambasted Google for deceptive tactics in a high-stakes court case, with California Attorney General Rob Bonta also attacking the technology behemoth for “egregious behavior.” The judge’s excoriation came in a multi-lawsuit legal action involving dozens of states, including California, accusing the Mountain View-based digital advertising giant of monopolizing… Read more »
March 20, 2023 – Nearly two dozen state attorneys general penned a letter Monday to the leadership of Kia and Hyundai urging the carmakers to take action against the “crisis of thefts” they say is a result of the companies’ failure to equip vehicles with anti-theft immobilizers. While available data suggests most types of violent crime are declining in the U.S., motor… Read more »
March 14, 2023 – The Ohio attorney general filed a 58-count federal lawsuit against Norfolk Southern on Tuesday, charging that the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals last month in the village of East Palestine was a product of the company’s negligence and recklessness, posing serious health risks to people in the area and causing “substantial damage to the… Read more »
March 6, 2023 – Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers has joined a multistate coalition asking a state court to order social media company TikTok, Inc. to fully comply with an ongoing investigation into whether the company violated consumer protection laws. The coalition includes 46 states. Led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Tennessee Attorney General… Read more »
March 2, 2023 – Minnesota officials are calling for a Kia and Hyundai safety recall after a spike in thefts in the Twin Cities. The cars are particularly vulnerable because they don’t have anti-theft technology. Social media trends show thieves how to easily get into and steal the cars. In 2022, the Twin Cities saw 3,293… Read more »
February 21, 2023 – Attorney General Ashley Moody is demanding that Apple and Google provide a means for consumers to identify certain foreign-owned apps – available for download in each company’s app stores – so that consumers can make more informed decisions. In a pair of letters sent to the CEOs of the companies today,… Read more »
February 16, 2023 – Nebraska on Thursday joined 24 other states in a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s new rule defining so-called Waters of the United States, or WOTUS. The multi-state coalition said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers rushed to publish the new rule, even though the Supreme Court is… Read more »
February 7, 2023 – More than a dozen attorneys general are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take immediate action to regulate PFAS — a toxic class of chemicals linked to serious health problems often found in household products like nonstick cookware. The 17-member coalition includes Pennsylvania’s Acting Attorney General Michelle Henry and… Read more »
February 2, 2023 – Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is suing the makers of so-called forever chemicals that have contaminated multiple sources of drinking water, saying the companies hid threats to public health and the environment. Raoul is suing 3M and several other large chemical companies that have in their past had some role in making a class… Read more »