ATLANTA, Georgia, May 10 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release: Attorney General Chris Carr is challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) unconstitutional power plant rule that threatens the reliability of energy production nationwide. The new regulations include costly and unattainable emissions standards, such as unrealistic compliance timelines, in an attempt to kill coal-fired units while endangering the construction of natural gas plants  more

BOISE, Idaho, May 10 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador joined a coalition of 25 states in a lawsuit asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review and declare unlawful the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recently-released rule on existing coal, natural gas, and oil-fired power plants. The rule would force power plants fueled by coal, oil, or natural gas to capture smokestack emissio  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 10 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 25-state lawsuit challenging the Biden EPA's new mandate that threatens existing coal-, natural gas- and oil-fired power plants. The mandate forces coal and natural-gas power plants to use unproven technology or face mass shutdowns. Biden's mandate will force Iowans to pay more for electricity and grapple with California-style blac  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 10 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined a 23-state coalition in challenging the Biden EPA's mandate to torch coal-fired electricity. EPA's mandate imposes harsh limits on coal-plant emissions, which are already well below any threshold that would affect public health. The mandate threatens to shut down coal plants for no reason other than to advance Biden's fight against f  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 10 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: Attorney General Anthony Brown today announced his office entered into settlements with AT&T Mobility, LLC, Cricket Wireless, LLC, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Cellco Partnership (d/b/a Verizon Wireless), and TracFone Wireless, Inc. (collectively, the "wireless carriers"), which resolve an investigation into the wireless carriers' advertising practices. The settlements were joined   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, May 10 -- The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued the following news: According to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) enforcement investigation, Central Specialties Inc., based in Alexandria, Minn., violated several air permit conditions between 2021 and 2023 for its portable hot-mix asphalt facility that travels to construction sites around the state. Violations included failing to properly maintain pollution control equipment and inadequate recordkeeping an  more

MINOT AFB, North Dakota, May 10 -- The U.S. Air Force Minot Air Force Base issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Kyle Wilson, 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs The 5th Bomb Wing conducted a base-wide readiness exercise, or Warbird Week, from May 1-8. Warbird Week is a routine base-wide readiness exercise designed to test 5th BW Airmen's abilities to operate in a variety of scenarios. As part of the exercise, various circumstances and conditions were simulated across the base to measure ov  more

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: Back in the 1950s when Gene Hartman was a college student, he knew he wanted a U.S. Air Force career. What he didn't know was that he would find a second career -- and love -- in Civil Air Patrol. The future CAP colonel learned firsthand the positive influence the organization can have in a young person's life. Hartman was stationed in Hawaii as an Air Force fighter pilot in the early 1970s. Th  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 10 -- North Dakota Attorney Drew Wrigley issued the following news: North Dakota Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, along with 21 other states have filed a petition for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, challenging the Biden EPA's unconstitutional overreach aimed at killing North Dakota's coal fired energy production. This recent Federal rule would require certain air toxin em  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 10 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on May 9, 2024: Gov. Doug Burgum, alongside state agency officials and partner organizations, today announced the establishment of the North Dakota Office of Outdoor Recreation to grow North Dakota's outdoor recreation economy by strengthening partnerships with the private sector and increasing collaboration among all stakeholders to seize the incredible natural and economic opportunities our great sta  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 10 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on May 9, 2024: Gov. Doug Burgum today presented his strategic budget guidelines for the 2025-2027 biennium, emphasizing the need for agencies to continue finding efficiencies, containing costs and identifying opportunities for innovation and automation in state government as inflationary costs, formula-driven demands and other factors put pressure on the state budget. While state general fund revenue  more

NEW YORK, May 10 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on May 9, 2024: New York Attorney General Letitia James and a multistate, bipartisan coalition of 50 attorneys general today secured more than $10.22 million from AT&T Mobility, LLC and its subsidiary Cricket Wireless, LLC (AT&T); T-Mobile USA, Inc. (T-Mobile); and Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless and its subsidiary TracFone Wireless, Inc. (Verizon), for deceptively marketing wireless service   more

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, May 10 -- The U.S. Army Environmental Command issued the following news: By Thomas Milligan Growing up in Minnesota, Dan Musel was a kid who loved sports and being outdoors. But he hadn't really thought about a career in environmental management. Instead, he played football at North Dakota State University - a perennial national power - and earned a degree in industrial engineering and planned to start his career in that. "I ended up getting a job out of co  more