LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 4 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers announced victories against two recent unlawful and undemocratic mandates by the Biden Administration that inflict harm on Americans, economy, and economic security. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi temporarily stopped the Biden Administration's Department of Health and Human Services from re-defining discriminati  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, July 3 -- The Defense Contract Management Agency issued the following news: By Tonya Johnson, DCMA Central Region Public Affairs Army Col. Kenneth Darnall, the Defense Contract Management Agency Central Region commander, oversaw the establishment standup ceremony of DCMA South June 21. The event was held at Redstone Arsenal here, and agency representatives and personnel from the tenant Redstone organizations attended the live-digital hybrid event in person. DCMA senior le  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 4 -- Gov. Jeff Landry, R-Louisiana, issued the following news on July 3, 2024: * * * Will be State Employee Under GOHSEP Ensuring One Concise Weather Voice * * * Today, Governor Jeff Landry announced that Jay Grymes will be the new State Climatologist. Under this new agreement, GOHSEP and LSU have entered into a partnership. Climatologist Jay Grymes will be a GOHSEP employee functioning as the State Climatologist--reporting directly to GOHSEP and Governor Landry.  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JASON LONIE ("LONIE"), age 47, pled guilty on July 2, 2024, before United States District Judge Darrel James Papillion to possession with intent to distribute fifty (50) grams or more of methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B). As a result of his guilty pl  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: GERARD TURNER ("TURNER"), age 22, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Wendy B. Vitter to 87 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release, along with a $400 mandatory special assessment fee, after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United St  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 3 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on July 1, 2024: On Monday, July 1, U.S. Federal Judge James Cain Jr. of the Western District of Louisiana, issued a preliminary injunction in Louisiana's favor for the State's lawsuit against President Joe Biden and the United States Department of Energy over the unlawful decisions to ban new liquefied natural gas exports to non-free trade agreement countries. Judge Cain's order lifts the LNG ex  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, July 4 -- The New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center issued the following news: Readers of New Orleans CityBusiness, a weekly business newspaper, have named the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center as a winner in the Best Event & Meeting Facility category in the 2024 Reader Ranking Awards. Now in their eighth year, the awards provide a look at the companies and services that CityBusiness readers rate highly across a wide variety of categories. This is t  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, July 4 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 25 other state attorneys general have filed a challenge to the Biden Administration's latest attempt to drive gas-powered cars off the road. The filing aims to block the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) strict fuel efficiency standards that contain a new rule requiring car manufacturers to dramatically increase the avera  more

WASHINGTON, July 4 -- The U.S. Chemical Safety Board issued the following news release: With Hurricane Beryl the Atlantic Ocean's earliest Category 5 storm on record, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is once again urging the chemical industry to act expeditiously to prepare for a season of potentially more frequent and more powerful hurricanes and other extreme weather events. On May 23, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an   more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a background news call via teleconference by senior administration officials to preview new actions on the impacts of extreme weather events: * * * MR. EDWARDS: All right. Thank you all for joining us. My name is Jeremy Edwards, and I am with the White House Press Office. Today we'll be discussing new actions the Biden-Harris administration is taking to deal with the impacts of extreme weather events and an operational   more