SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 11 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 19 attorneys general in a letter to U.S. Senate leaders, urging their legislative body "to promptly pass the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (ICC Act)." The letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was led by the State of Arkansas. On June 5, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton introduced this bill (S. 4484), following suc  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Let's set the scene. It's 3 o'clock on a Tuesday in a sprawling cityscape, teeming with life and energy. Professionals work on their computers in towering high rises. Children play on playgrounds as they wait for their parents to pick them up from school. Pet owners jog with their animal companions along the sidewalks. Buses pick up passengers and transport them ar  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, July 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected the Ivy Academy, a public charter school serving Chattanooga, to receive a $100,000 Environmental Education Grant for climate education across the state. The selectee is the first public school in Tennessee to partner with Tennessee State Parks for the high school majors in environmentally related fields. "Congratulations to our environ  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Tennessee, July 11 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news on July 10, 2024: * * * Family-owned business set to purchase previous Footwear Industries of Tennessee building * * * Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and Steel Warehouse officials announced today the company's plans to expand in Jefferson City, locating in and retrofitting the former Footwear  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Defendants Include Members and Associates of the "Young Mob" Street Gang A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging 15 Memphis, Tennessee, residents for their involvement in an organized drug trafficking scheme. According to court documents, between November 2023 and June 2024, the defendants allegedly worked together, and with others, to distribute fentanyl, methamph  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 10 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news: Attorney General Liz Murrill joined Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of 23 state attorneys general in opposing the Biden administration's latest overreach into the livelihoods of middle-class Americans. This time, the administration has weaseled its way into laundry rooms in an attempt to further their radical energy policies by implementing harmful and costly standards on w  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) today awarded $1,183,993.50 to eight recipients of Preservation Planning Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program, helping recipients from the metropolitan edge of New York City to the grasslands of Las Animas County, Colorado, preserve battlefields and other sites of armed conflict. "The diverse grant opportun  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management issued the following news: * * * Oak Ridge is on track to complete all soil remediation at East Tennessee Technology Park -- an EM 2024 priority -- in coming weeks * * * The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR have completed the largest soil remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). The three-year-long project removed more than 100  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: SCALE users from 85 organizations across 21 countries gathered online and in person at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory from June 5 to June 7 for the Eighth Annual SCALE Users Group Workshop. The SCALE software suite, developed and maintained by ORNL, is widely recognized for its modeling and simulation capabilities in nuclear safety analysis  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 10 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on July 9, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a coalition of 26 states that filed a brief Friday before the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Hillsborough County Transit Authority's no-religious-speech advertising policy. The coalition urged the Court to review the policy because it infringed on the First Amendment rights of a Jewish synagogue, Young Israel of Tampa, to  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 11 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following statement on July 10, 2024: * * * Honors years of service of Chancellor Kyle * * * "The entire Attorney General's Office is keeping Chancellor Kyle and his family in our prayers as he steps away from the bench after many years of distinguished service to the State," said Tennessee Attorney General Skrmetti. "We are so proud of Jim Newsom for returning to the bench in Chancellor Kyle's absence.   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging 15 Memphis, Tennessee, residents for their involvement in an organized drug trafficking scheme. According to court documents, between November 2023 and June 2024, the defendants allegedly worked together, and with others, to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana thro  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate critical habitat for the endangered Barrens topminnow, a small, colorful fish native to the Cumberland Plateau in middle Tennessee. The species was listed as endangered in November 2019, due to predation from the western mosquitofish. Proposed critical habitat for the Barrens topminnow consists of 1.5 acres of  more