WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following order (No. WC Docket No. 10-90) on Dec. 27, 2023: * * * In the Matter of Connect America Fund: A National Broadband Plan for our Future High-Cost Universal Service Support SECOND REPORT AND ORDER By the Commission: I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Commission hereby defers the commencement of the next five-year deployment obligation term for legacy rate-of-return carriers receiving Connect   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Dec. 26, 2023: Today, Utah Attorney General Reyes joined a 26-state coalition in an Iowa-led letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, urging the Corps to allow oil and gas to flow through the Dakota Access that has safely operated from North Dakota to Illinois for over six years. The letter also opposes the Corps's proposed alternatives--requiring shutting down, digging up, or building more than  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes led an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Texas v. New Mexico. The case involves a proposed resolution of a dispute over water rights between several states, which the federal government is attempting to block. In 2014, Texas sued New Mexico and Colorado claiming that New Mexico had breached the 1939 Rio Grande Compact, which apportions water fro  more