Seventeen Democratic AGs, led by Oregon AG Dan Rayfield, filed an amicus brief supporting a challenge to IRS Notice 2025-42, a guidance document that tightened eligibility rules for certain federal clean-electricity tax credits. The brief was filed in Oregon Environmental Council, et al. v. IRS, a case in which plaintiffs challenge the IRS’s decision to…

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Iowa AG Brenna Bird and Texas AG Ken Paxton co-led a group of 16 Republican AGs in sending a letter to Alphabet, Inc. about YouTube’s content moderation practices. In the letter, the AGs said they have received reports that YouTube is allegedly censoring or suppressing conservative commentators despite Alphabet’s prior public statements that it had…

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California AG Rob Bonta and Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell co-led a group of 12 Democratic AGs in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit supporting the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its amended Order No. 1920 on long-term regional transmission planning and cost allocation. In the brief,…

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Florida AG James Uthmeier led a group of 10 Republican AGs in sending a notice letter to nearly 80 corporations associated with plastics and packaging advocacy organizations, warning that their participation could raise concerns under Section 1 of the Sherman Act and state consumer protection laws. In the letter, the AGs argue that the U.S.…

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A bipartisan coalition of 23 AGs and several state banking regulators submitted a comment letter urging the OCC to withdraw two proposals addressing mortgage escrow accounts—an escrow rule and a related preemption determination that would preempt certain state laws requiring national banks to pay minimum interest on mortgage escrow accounts. In the letter, the states…

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