LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2023, and a letter: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after joining a coalition of 24 states to push back against the U.S. Department of Education's threat to withhold funding from schools that offer archery, hunting and firearm safety courses: "Hunting and other outdoor shooting sports play an important role in Arkansas culture and life. Further,   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2023: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today led a coalition of eight state attorneys general in sending a letter urging leaders in the United States Congress to support legislation to protect investors' privacy and issued the following statement: "We are urging Senate and House leadership to support S. 2230/H.R. 4551, the Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Informati  more

BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 17 -- Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, issued the following news release on Aug. 16, 2023: Governor Brad Little announced today his appointment of Annie McDevitt as District Judge to the Fourth Judicial District. McDevitt has served the Fourth Judicial District as a Magistrate Judge since her appointment in 2018. In addition to magistrate duties, McDevitt has demonstrated leadership in the judiciary. She currently serves as the Administrative Magistrate Judge for the Ada County Do  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following statement on Aug. 14, 2023: * * * Last week, in a victory for the State of Utah and its local communities, S&P Global Ratings announced that it would no longer publish new or update outstanding ESG credit indicators. Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, a national leader in the fight to bring the ESG movement into conformity with the rule of law, issued the following statement: "This is a very significant mov  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Aug. 14, 2023, and a letter: This month, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a coalition of 24 states in urging Congress to protect funding for school archery, hunting, and firearm safety courses by enacting the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act. As part of the Department of Education's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), schools that offer such educational opportunit  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 17 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined attorneys general from six other states in submitting a letter urging U.S. Congress leaders to support legislation to protect investors' privacy. The letter supports S. 2230/H.R. 4551, the Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act. This legislation would protect investors against the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Consolidate  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined two comment letters from the States of Ohio and West Virginia opposing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed rulemaking called "New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Fossil Fuel-Fired Elect  more