ATLANTA, Georgia, March 15 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release: Attorney General Chris Carr is leading a 10-state coalition challenging a new climate disclosure rule from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among other items, this rule seeks to require companies to produce exhaustive and costly disclosures concerning greenhouse gas emissions, climate risks, and risks related to the physical impact of storms, drought, and higher temperatures. C  more

BOISE, Idaho, March 16 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Attorneys General Raul Labrador of Idaho and Todd Rokita of Indiana led 26 other states in filing a brief with the United States Supreme Court challenging Illinois' unconstitutional ban of AR-15 rifles and their standard 30-round magazines. "This ruling from the Seventh Circuit flies in the face of the Bruen decision and the Second Amendment's unqualified command," said Attorney General Labrado  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57026) involving Catawba Nuclear Plant, South Carolina: * * * Facility: Catawba Region: 2 State: SC Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP NRC Notified By: Joshua Gower HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 03/13/2024 Notification Time: 02:29 [ET] Event Date: 03/12/2024 Event Time: 21:11 [EDT] Last Update Date: 03/13/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Se  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56587) involving DAK Americas LLC, Columbia, South Carolina: * * * Rep Org: SC Dept of Health & Env Control Licensee: DAK Americas, LLC Region: 1 City: Columbia State: SC License #: 189 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Korina Koci HQ OPS Officer: Bill Gott Notification Date: 06/22/2023 Notification Time: 16:36 [ET] Event Date: 06/22/2023 Event Time: 16:40 [EDT] Last Update Date: 03/  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, March 16 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading a group of 24 state attorneys general and one state legislature in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new methane emissions rule. The coalition has filed a petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to block the rule. "The Biden Administration's methane emissions rule is a bl  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 16 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the State of Virginia, in Alario v. TikTok. The case, which is pending at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, involves a challenge to the State of Montana's recently enacted law, SB 419, which prohibits TikTok from being downloaded within its borders. The Montana law provides that the prohibition will cease to apply if TikTok  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, March 16 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Attorney General Jason Miyares today joined a 12-state coalition in a letter to the Biden Administration demanding that it stop funding Iran after the Administration renewed a sanctions waiver that would allow Iran to access $10 billion in frozen assets. The Biden Administration plans to grant Iran access to upward of $10 billion from frozen accounts in Iraq, Oman, a  more