TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 6 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody is leading a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia supporting Intervenor States that seek to prevent the Biden administration from weaponizing sue-and-settle tactics to avoid accountability for the border crisis. The Biden administration appears to have  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 6 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release: Attorney General Chris Carr has successfully blocked an unlawful climate disclosure rule from the Biden administration's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among other items, this rule seeks to require companies to produce disclosures concerning greenhouse gas emissions, climate risks, and risks related to the physical impact of storms, drought, and higher temperatures. The rule would also  more

AMES, Iowa, April 6 -- The Iowa Mississippi River Parkway Commission issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: The Iowa Mississippi River Parkway Commission (MRPC) will meet Friday, April 12, 2024, at the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, 350 East Third Street, in Dubuque. * * * Table: Iowa Mississippi River Parkway Commission Agenda * * * Note: The Iowa Mississippi River Parkway Commission Inc., a 501 (c) (4) tax-exempt fundraising organization, will meet at this loca  more

GULFPORT, Mississippi, April 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Picayune man was sentenced to 159 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Corrie Montrell Hinton, 46, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Gulfport. According to court records, in 2015, an investigation began into a large-scale drug trafficking organization in Picayune, Mississippi. In 2019, DEA agents   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, April 6 -- North Dakota Attorney Drew Wrigley issued the following news on April 4, 2024: Attorney General Drew Wrigley announced today that a 21-state coalition including North Dakota persuaded a federal judge to block the most recent example of federal overreach by the Biden Administration. The new federal rule would have required states to meet burdensome and expensive bureaucratic mandates for on-road vehicles. The 21-state coalition filed the successful court action  more

WASHINGTON, April 6 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Nicholas E. M. Pasquini, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom-interferometry-based inertial measurement systems as a path to reduce drift in Naval navigation systems. Inertial navig  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 6 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today announced the opening of its Portable Loan Outreach Center to meet the needs of businesses who were affected by severe or extreme drought that occurred Sept. 19 - Dec. 5, 2023. The center will be located   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 6 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on April 4, 2024: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) are available in Mississippi for small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations with economic losses due to the drought that began on Dec. 1, 2023. The  more

TUPELO, Mississippi, April 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The National Park Service (NPS) seeks public comment on a wetlands statement of finding (WSOF) for a revetment project for bank stabilization of Lindsey Creek at a pipeline crossing Natchez Trace Parkway near Clinton, Mississippi. The WSOF outlines the process of mitigating adverse effects to wetlands associated with construction of the revetment, which will be installe  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 6 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on April 5, 2024: Attorney General Jason Miyares today announced a victory against the Biden Administration's Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") mandate that forces businesses to track and report greenhouse gas emissions. Virginia joined a 25-state coalition in securing a temporary, nationwide block on President Biden's extreme climate mandate while the lawsuit continues. The man  more