Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) this week by his Republican attorney general colleagues.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti Joins Push for Congress to Pass the SAVE Act
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a coalition of 21 other state attorneys general in “strongly” urging congressional leaders to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
Read the full storyTennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti Urges Congress to Pass Child Safety Act
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is among the bipartisan coalition of 44 state and territory attorneys general endorsing the Child Exploitation and Artificial Intelligence Expert Commission Act of 2024.
Read the full storyRepublican AGs Push Back Against ‘Reckless’ Plan from Biden’s EPA That Could Further Hobble American Coal
by Nick Pope Several state attorneys general are engaging in legal battles against President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether or not his administration will be able to impose its costly plan for implementing a regulation designed to further incapacitate the American coal industry. Multiple states have already achieved early success in their legal challenges against the EPA’s federal implementation plan (FIP) for meeting ambient ozone standards of the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the implementation of which could further restrict coal-fired power generation in 22 states, according to the FIP’s Federal Registry entry. Numerous state attorneys general are seeking to follow their own state implementation plans (SIPs) rather than the comparatively restrictive FIP the EPA wants to impose in order to have the states meet the ambient ozone standards. “President Biden doesn’t care if his radical agenda undermines our economy. His EPA’s reckless regulation will wreak havoc in the Commonwealth, forcing the shutdown of many of Kentucky’s coal-fired power plants—killing jobs and raising utility rates for Kentuckians—while further undermining American energy independence,” Republican Kentucky Attorney General David Cameron said to the Daily Caller News Foundation. Kentucky’s challenge has so far resulted in a stay against the EPA’s disapproval of its SIP, a…
Read the full storyAttorneys General from 27 States Urge U.S. Congress Support ‘Right to Repair’ Law
Twenty-seven states’ attorneys general are asking Congress to pass Right to Repair legislation that they say will protect consumers, farmers and small businesses as inflation increases.
The bipartisan coalition’s letter said Right to Repair legislation targeted at automobiles, agricultural equipment and digital electronic equipment is about ensuring consumers have choices about where, when and at what cost they can get repairs, as well as ensuring small businesses can compete against original equipment manufacturers.
Read the full storyFourteen Republican Attorneys General Reviewing Legal Options over Biden Keystone Pipeline Action
Fourteen Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to the White House, informing the president they were reviewing all legal options over his decision to nix the Keystone XL Pipeline permit.
The officials told President Joe Biden they were writing to him “with alarm” and urged him to reconsider his Keystone XL Pipeline executive order in the letter sent Tuesday.
Read the full story‘Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Is Funding an Effort to Secretly Embed an Army of Anti-Trump Attorneys Inside State Offices
Republican attorneys general are arguing that billionaire Michael Bloomberg is using his vast wealth to embed an army of lawyers into state offices for the purpose of taking on oil companies and President Donald Trump.
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