Announcements, information & updates from the Attorney General Alliance Members and Associates
June 24, 2022
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Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, Environment Secretary James Kenney, and Natural Resources Trustee Maggie Hart Stebbins on Thursday announced a $32 million final settlement with the United States and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Gold King Mine litigation.
Under the settlement, the U.S. will make cash payments to New Mexico of $18.1 million for response costs, $10 million for restoration of injured natural resources, and commit to providing an additional $3.5 million to state water quality and cleanup activities through Clean Water Act and Superfund grants.
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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) plan for regulating downwind emissions, arguing that the plan would place burdensome requirements on key industries and will lead to additional strain on the nation’s power grid.
Attorney General Cameron led the letter and was joined by attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
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AGA ORC Working Group Co-Chairman, Illinois Attorney General Raoul, hosts an ongoing series of virtual conferences, featuring presentations by top leaders and subject-matter experts on topics critical to the fight against organized retail crime. AG Raoul also hosted a discussion with the president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association.
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the creation of a statewide Organized Retail Crime Theft Task Force. The Task Force will improve coordination and collaboration among law enforcement agencies to address these multi-jurisdictional crimes that endanger employees and cause significant economic harm to our state.
The task force will focus on sophisticated, organized crime rings that account for almost $70 billion in retail losses across the country. The Task Force is the first of its kind in Washington. Nine other states have a task force dedicated to organized retail crime.
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson praised the decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in a Maine case dealing with state scholarship money going to religious schools. The Supreme Court ruled that disqualifying some private schools from receiving state tuition assistance payments only because they are religious schools is unconstitutional because it penalizes the free exercise of religion.
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A bipartisan coalition of 31 attorneys general, led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, in urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reject marketing authorization for all non-tobacco nicotine products, which are currently being sold without regulatory constraints on their contents, manufacturing, health effects or marketing claims. Should the FDA grant marketing authorization to such products, the coalition insists the FDA must impose the same restrictions required of tobacco-derived nicotine products.
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Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III is leading a coalition of 26 state attorneys general calling to withdraw the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) new guidance on sex discrimination for schools and programs that receive federal nutritional assistance. The attorneys general say recent guidance from the USDA imposes new regulatory measures on state agencies and operators receiving federal financial assistance from the USDA. On May 5, 2022, the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, announced it would expand its interpretation of the prohibition on sex discrimination found in Title IX to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity based on a flawed understanding of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.
The letter was signed by attorneys general from the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming.
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Forty-six attorneys general today announced a $1.25 million settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach. The settlement resolves a multistate investigation of the data breach, which involved the personal information of about 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide.
The investigation was co-led by Connecticut, Florida and Washington, assisted by Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Ohio, and North Carolina, and joined by Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced that he and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares led a bipartisan coalition of 23 attorneys general urging Congress to take action regarding copycat THC edibles. In a letter sent to congressional leadership, the attorneys general explain that these products are designed to look like popular snack items and have increased accidental THC consumption in children.
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AGA Sponsor TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp, in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters. |
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