Attorney General Rosenblum Joins Lawsuit against Trump Administration’s Attempt to Trample Clean Car Standards
Oregon Attorney General Rosenblum today joined a coalition of 24 Attorneys General and two cities in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to challenge the Trump Administration’s unprecedented action attempting to deprive California and other states of the right to establish vehicle emission standards that reduce carbon pollution. These standards… View ArticlePosted in Media Release on September 20, 2019
Oregon Sunshine Committee 2019 Public Notice
The Oregon Sunshine Committee will meet on September 25, 2018 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM. The meeting will be held in Hearing Room C in the Oregon State Capitol, 900 Court St. NE, Salem, OR 97301. The Committee will review and approve past minutes, hear reports from subcommittee chairs, discuss and possibly vote on what… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, Public Records Reform on September 11, 2019
Oregon Joins Lawsuit Against SEC for Putting Brokers Ahead of Investors
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today joined a coalition of eight Attorneys General in filing a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, challenging the Securities & Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new “Regulation Best Interest” for failing to meet basic investor protections that were laid out in the historic 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read, who… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on September 10, 2019
Oregon Sues EPA Over Toxic Pesticide in Food
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today asked to intervene in a proceeding filed last month in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by six Attorneys General against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allowing chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can harm infant and child neurological development, to contaminate common foods. The coalition is challenging the… View ArticlePosted in Media Release, News on September 6, 2019
Oregon Files Two Petitions with U.S. Supreme Court to Hold Two Oregon Cases Open
The Oregon Department of Justice today filed petitions asking the United States Supreme Court to hold open two Oregon cases while it decides a case out of Virginia called Mathena v. Malvo. The Oregon cases, both called Kelly v. White, concern twin brothers who murdered an elderly Salem couple when they were 15 years old. This… View ArticlePosted in Media Release on August 28, 2019