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HHS Provides More Than $1.5 Billion in State and Tribal Opioid Response Grants
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), today allocated more than $1.5 billion in FY25 continuation funding awards for the State Opioid Response (SOR)...

Attorney General Bonta Urges Trump’s CFPB to Continue Protecting Americans Who Rely on Nonbank Entities for Financial Services
Proposed rule would increase the risks of financial harm for millions of Americans OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta this week, along with 20 attorneys general, opposed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed rule that...

HANYS CEO and former AHA Board Member Bea Grause to retire
The Healthcare Association of New York State Sept. 16 announced Bea Grause, R.N., its president and CEO, will retire in summer 2026. Grause was active for many years with the AHA and is a former board and executive committee member. Grause became...

Marquee Brands Announces Dakine Days Campus Tour at Universities Across the U.S.
Dakine Days slated to popup at University of San Diego, University of Vermont and University of Utah in September REDONDO BEACH, CA, UNITED STATES, September 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Marquee Brands, the global brand accelerator and owner...

Attorneys General Tong Files Second Lawsuit Against DOJ to Protect Services for Crime Survivors
Press Releases 10/03/2025 Attorneys General Tong Files Second Lawsuit Against DOJ to Protect Services for Crime Survivors (Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong this week joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing a second...

Washington among states suing DOJ to protect services for crime survivors
Washington and 19 other states are suing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to block new restrictions on federal funding that supports survivors of domestic violence and other violent crimes, jeopardizing potentially hundreds of thousands of...

Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over Illegal New Retroactive Condition on Public Safety and Victim Services Funding
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a multistate coalition, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (U.S. DOJ) new condition prohibiting recipients of various public safety and victim services...

WA and other states win temporary block on politically motivated cuts to homeland security funding
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the administration’s political agenda, a day after a coalition of...

Attorney General Tong Files Emergency Lawsuit to Protect Critical Homeland Security Funding from Politically Motivated Cuts
Press Releases 09/30/2025 Attorney General Tong Files Emergency Lawsuit to Protect Critical Homeland Security Funding from Politically Motivated Cuts (Hartford, CT) -- Attorney General William Tong, as part of a coalition of 12 attorneys general,...

WA joins a coalition of states suing DHS, FEMA over unlawfully reallocating security funding for political purposes
Attorney General Nick Brown, as part of a coalition of 12 attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully reallocating federal homeland security funding away from states based on their compliance with the...

Attorneys general issue joint statement affirming the safety of and access to medical abortion drug
Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in issuing a joint statement addressing concerns over a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of mifepristone. “For more than 25 years, mifepristone has been...

Mission 10K’s Secret to Speed: a Land Acquisition Engine That Finds Gold Where Others Don’t
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. housing crisis isn’t just a matter of construction delays or red tape. The problem begins before the first shovel hits dirt—at the land acquisition stage, where inflated pricing and...

Attorney General Tong Leads States, Counties, and Cities in Fighting Rescission of EPA's Landmark 2009 Endangerment Funding
Press Releases 09/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads States, Counties, and Cities in Fighting Rescission of EPA's Landmark 2009 Endangerment Funding Connecticut Defends Climate Science and Fights EPA’s Proposal to Roll Back Federal Motor Vehicle...

Combatting the EPA’s Ongoing Assault on Climate Science: Attorney General Bonta Slams EPA’s Proposed Rescission of Endangerment Finding
Through multiple actions, Attorney General Bonta and multistate partners, stand up for climate science, oppose EPA’s proposal to repeal all the federal motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards that protect the health and safety of Americans...

Washington joins state and local governments opposing EPA’s unsupported attempt to deny that greenhouse gases endanger public health
Washington, along with a coalition of other states and local governments, is opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to undo its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare by...

Video, Audio, Photos & Rush Transcript: Governor Hochul Announces Plan for the $1 Billion Sustainable Future Program Supporting Climate Action and Jobs
Earlier today, Governor Hochul, while participating in the U.S Climate Alliance’s roundtable, announced the next steps for her landmark $1 billion Sustainable Future Program to accelerate capital projects in New York's transition to a cleaner,...

Multistate coalition including Washington wins a court order protecting billions in federal emergency services funding
The Trump administration illegally attempted to coerce states into sweeping immigration enforcement by threatening to withhold billions in federal emergency services funding, a federal judge has ruled in an important victory for Washington and a...

Attorney General Tong Wins Court Order Protecting Billions in Federal Emergency Services Funding
Press Releases 09/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Court Order Protecting Billions in Federal Emergency Services Funding (Hartford, CT) -- Attorney General William Tong today announced Connecticut has won a court order prohibiting the Trump...

Attorney General Bonta: Public Forest Lands Must be Protected
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside a coalition of seven attorneys general, submitted a comment letter opposing the Trump Administration's proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule), which...

Schurz Broadband Group Taps Otava to Deliver Managed Cloud Services and Data Protection Solutions to Broadband Customers
MISHAWAKA, Ind., Sept. 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Schurz Broadband Group (SBG) today announced that it is now offering world-class data protection and managed cloud services to its broadband business customers through its sister company, Otava....