WASHINGTON, May 29 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb issued the following news release: Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb led a coalition of seven attorneys general in filing a brief in League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose opposing an Ohio law that makes it a crime, in most situations, to help others return absentee ballots. The law makes it a felony to return or possess another voter's absentee ballot unless you are a postal worker or one of a narrow set of family m  more

BOISE, Idaho, May 29 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador joined a 19-state coalition asking the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the efforts of California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Rhode Island to dictate the future of American energy policy. Those five states have brought unprecedented litigation against the nation's most vital energy companies for an alleged "climate crisis," and are demandi  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 29 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the Department of Law and Public Safety (LPS) will be taking steps to help ensure a fair and smooth-running election during the 2024 primary election. He established the initiative prior to the 2022 general election to identify and address voting rights or civil rights violations arising during early voting and   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 29 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: Governor Phil Murphy and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) today announced the acceleration of the State's offshore wind solicitation schedule, expediting the projected opening of the fifth offshore wind solicitation from Q3 2026 to Q2 2025. By advancing New Jersey's solicitation schedule, the Murphy Administration builds upon the momentum of the state's growing offsh  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: An Israeli man today admitted conspiring with Eliyahu "Eli" Weinstein, whose 24-year federal prison sentence was commuted after being twice convicted of defrauding investors of a total of $230 million, and others to defraud investors of more than $35 million in a new fraud scheme, and to conspiring to engage in money laundering and obstruct justice, U.  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 29 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the efforts of California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey and Rhode Island to dictate American energy policy. Those five states have brought unprecedented litigation against the nation's most vital energy companies, and they demand billions of dollars in damages. As litigation proceeds   more

WASHINGTON, May 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Harnessing energy from plasma requires a precise understanding of its behavior during fusion to keep it hot, dense and stable. A new theoretical model about a plasma's edge, which can become unstable and bulge, brings the prospect of commercial fusion power closer to reality. "The model refines the thinking on stabilizing the edge of the plasma for different tokamak sha  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness issued the following news on May 28, 2024: Last week, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) Director Jeff Olivet and USICH Senior Regional Advisor Nichele Carver traveled to Newark, New Jersey, where investments in housing and shelter have reportedly reduced unsheltered homelessness. The federal team met with people experiencing homelessness as well as Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Newark Director of Homeless Services Lui  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on May 28, 2024: * * * Biden-Harris Administration Launches Federal-State Initiative to Bolster America's Power Grid Since Day One, President Biden has positioned America as a leader in the global race for a clean energy future, including by taking ambitious action to deliver a clean, reliable electric grid, which will help ensure that communities don't lose power during extreme weather events, lower energy costs   more