NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 2 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, announced the launch of the Lower Mississippi River Comprehensive Management Study, a five-year, $25 million mega-study that will deliver recommendations for effective and practical management of the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau, MO, to the Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the study is to identify reco  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis issued the following Beige Book on May 31, 2023: * * * Summary of Economic Activity Economic conditions have remained unchanged since our previous report. Contacts continued to report difficulty hiring workers, but generally had a slightly easier time finding and retaining workers. Wages and other input costs increased modestly, which led to margin compression, as firms were unable to pass on these cost increases as sales pr  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 2 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release and a letter: Attorney General Ashley Moody is leading a multistate effort urging the United States Senate to promptly pass the HALT Fentanyl Act, a bill that will permanently schedule fentanyl analogues. Just last week, the HALT Fentanyl Act passed the United States House of Representatives in a bipartisan fashion. Attorney General Ashley Moody said, "Fentanyl-related substances kill tens o  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 2 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release: Attorney General Ashley Moody is again taking legal action against the Biden administration for unlawful open-border policies and refusing to properly enforce the law. Attorney General Moody and an 18-state coalition of other attorneys general filed a complaint over the new "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways" rule, claiming that the rule is riddled with political gamesmanship and smokescreens  more

BOISE, Idaho, June 2 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: As part of an 18-state coalition, Attorney General Raul Labrador is suing the Biden administration over its proposed new "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways" rule. "The Biden administration's proposed plan to address the surge of illegal border crossings is inadequate. The proposal carves out exceptions restricting DHS from effectively combatting unlawful entry into the United States. If the Biden   more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, June 2 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Governor JB Pritzker, Manner Polymers, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today joined local leaders and partners to announce Manner Polymers' new manufacturing facility in Mount Vernon. Known as an industry manufacturing leader in polymer compounds, Manner Polymers' new state-of-the-art Illinois facility will manufacture a wide array of PVC compounds, including  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, June 2 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: Attorney General Bird joined 18 other states in a lawsuit Wednesday to challenge the Biden Administration's "Circumvention of Legal Pathways" immigration rule. The unlawful policy increases the number of illegal aliens in the United States by guaranteeing entry for those who meet simple conditions. During the worst border crisis in the nation's history, the Biden administration's reckless borde  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, June 1 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey joined a coalition of 48 states in filing suit against Avid Telecom, its owner Michael Lansky, and its vice president Stacey Reeves, for sending more than 7.5 billion calls to telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. The lawsuit alleges that Avid Telecom initiated and facilitated billions of illegal robocalls to mil  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 1 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: According to its website the journal "publishes high-quality research papers that apply computational approaches for the design of new materials, and for enhancing our understanding of existing ones. New computational techniques - and the refinement of current approaches - that facilitate these aims are also welcome, as are experimental papers that complement  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Region 3 issued the following news release: * * * Federal workplace safety inspectors found hazardous conditions at four southern Pennsylvania stores owned and operated by Dollar General Corp. and Dolgencorp LLC like those identified at the company's locations in more than 240 inspections across the nation since 2017. These inspections have led to more than $21 million in proposed p  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 1 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news: Tennessee Attorney General Skrmetti joined a coalition of 21 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in support of two Florida parents who were stripped of their fundamental and longstanding right to direct the upbringing and care of their child when officials at Leon County Schools secretly held meetings with their child about gender identity. In 2020, January and Jeffrey Littlejo  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 2 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news: As part of an 18-state coalition, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is suing the Biden administration over its proposed new "Circumvention of Lawful Pathways" rule. "The first step to solving our immigration crisis is to follow the law," said Skrmetti. "The administration's 'Circumvention of Lawful Pathways' rule is another in a series of efforts to illegally rewrite immigration law through  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 2 -- The Tennessee Public Utility Commission issued the following protective order (Docket No. 23-00026) on June 1, 2023: * * * In Re: Petition Of Atmos Energy Corporation For Approval Of A Tennessee Hedging Program PROTECTIVE ORDER To expedite the flow of filings, exhibits and other information, and to facilitate the prompt resolution of disputes as to the confidentiality of information, adequately protect information entitled to be kept confidential and to ensure  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, June 2 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on June 1, 2023: Attorney General Jason Miyares today co-led a multi-state coalition letter urging the U.S. Senate leadership to pass the HALT Fentanyl Act immediately. The legislation would permanently schedule all current and future fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs, giving law enforcement the appropriate tools they need to crack down on the epidemic by stopping the flow of the dang  more