Illinois AG Kwame Raoul co-led a coalition of 17 Democratic AGs, the city of Chicago, New York City, and the California Air Resources Board, in filing comments opposing the EPA’s proposal to repeal the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) Rule—which restricts emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants—and revert to the more lenient 2012 emission standards.

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A group of 29 Republican state and territorial AGs sent a letter to federal officials and agencies urging them stop the marketing and sale of illegal Chinese e-cigarettes in the United States.

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A group of four Democratic AGs sued the EPA and Citibank, N.A., as a financial agent for the federal government, alleging that they wrongfully denied the states access to funds appropriated by Congress for clean-energy projects in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act, the separation of powers, the Spending Clause, and the Tenth Amendment, among…

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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison has obtained an order denying in large part motions to dismiss filed by defendants ExxonMobil Corp., the American Petroleum Institute, Koch Industries, Inc., Flint Hills Resources LP, and Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend (collectively “Defendants”) in the state’s climate change-related litigation. The complaint alleges that Defendants hid expert warnings about the…

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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison’s office has released a follow-up report on the effects of emerging technologies, such as AI and social media, on youth well-being. The report describes the legal landscape and current legislative efforts to regulate social media and AI, focusing on how recent court decisions that have curtailed laws governing online content while providing more…

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