Release date: 9/5/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Acting Director Mick Mulvaney to continue protecting the rights of consumers against credit discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The Attorneys General, who share authority with the CFPB to […]
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Release date: 8/31/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today criticized the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for putting the interests of predatory for-profit schools ahead of the students she is sworn to protect. Secretary DeVos has proposed changes to the Department’s borrower defense protections that, if adopted, would make it more […]
Release date: 8/23/2018 (RALEIGH) – Attorney General Josh Stein today called on Congress today to help end the opioid epidemic and close a loophole that allows those who traffic deadly fentanyl to stay a step ahead of law enforcement. “The rate of death from opioid overdose is climbing in large part due to fentanyl and […]
Release date: 8/21/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today led a coalition of 17 Attorneys General speaking out in support of HUD’s Disparate Impact Rule that protects people against housing discrimination. In June, HUD began the process to consider rewriting the Disparate Impact Rule. The Attorneys General, who have widespread experience enforcing fair housing laws and […]
Release date: 8/17/2018 Attorney General today called on Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to withdraw his predecessor’s “harmful and deeply flawed” proposal to censor science at the Agency. The call was part of detailed comments Attorney General Stein submitted as part of a 23-member coalition of states, counties, and cities on former EPA […]
Release date: 8/7/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today submitted comments opposing the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) plans to significantly revise the Well Control Rule, formally known as the Oil and Gas and Sulfur Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf – Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control regulations. The Well Control […]
Release date: 8/1/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today took legal action to prevent unrestricted access to untraceable, undetectable 3D guns by announcing that he would be joining a multistate lawsuit that seeks to block a Trump administration action allowing the public release of 3D firearm blueprints. The blueprints would allow individuals, regardless of age, […]
Release date: 7/24/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein is urging Congress to improve national cybersecurity and protect the integrity of the upcoming 2018 election and all future elections against cyberattacks and infiltrations. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that in 2016, Russian government hackers targeted America’s elections systems, including stealing the private information of hundreds of […]
Release date: 7/20/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced the filing of a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over EPA’s recent attempt to reopen the so-called “dirty truck loophole.” The dirty truck loophole attempts to overturn the 2016 Glider Rule, which requires old truck engines installed in new truck bodies to […]
Release date: 7/19/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced enforcement actions against two charities, Steps & Stages and Operation Troop Aid, for misusing charitable contributions intended for military servicemembers and veterans. Attorney General Stein today also released an updated military consumer guide intended to help military servicemembers and their families as they make consumer […]