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State Tipoffs Involving Alaska Newsletter for Sunday January 16, 2022 ( 5 items )  

- Alaska A.G. Taylor: Juneau District Attorney Angie Kemp Named Criminal Division Director
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 12 (TNSPer) -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2022: Juneau District Attorney Angie Kemp has been named as director of the Alaska Department of Law's Criminal Division, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor announced today. Kemp is a Juneau native and career prosecutor who has been district attorney in Juneau since 2017. She takes over for Jack McKenna as Criminal Division Director. McKenna, of Anchorage, was recently appo  more

Alaska A.G. Taylor, Other AGs Urge Federal Communications Commission to Take Additional Action on Robocalls
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 11 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release: Attorney General Treg Taylor and a bipartisan group of his counterparts urged the Federal Communications Commission to do more to protect American consumers from the scourge of illegal robocalls by international callers. In comments to the FCC, Attorney General Taylor and other state attorneys general asked the commission to require gateway providers - those companies that allow international c  more

Alaska A.G. Taylor: Alaska Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Over Oil Operations
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 13 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release: Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor asked a U.S. District Court judge this week to allow the State of Alaska to intervene in a lawsuit by environmental groups that seeks to significantly limit oil and gas activities in the Beaufort Sea region. The environmental groups filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of Interior in September after the federal government annou  more

Alaska A.G. Taylor: Supreme Court Blocks OSHA Vaccine Requirement, Lets Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mandate Proceed
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 14 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on Jan. 13, 2022: The U.S. Supreme Court today blocked a Biden Administration regulation that would force 84 million American workers to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or face weekly testing. Alaska and a coalition of other states had sued the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which had been tasked with enforcing the nationwide mandate on private businesses with more than 100 empl  more

Alaska Gov. Dunleavy: Biden Administration Continues to Shut Down Alaska's Domestic Energy Production With 'No Action' Decision
JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 12 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following statement: * * * Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) signaled that it plans to close millions of acres in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) that has been available for responsible resource development. "This request for additional stay and accompanying information makes clear the Federal government intends another unwarranted hit to Alask  more