Release date: 10/26/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today demanded that the Trump administration’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) withdraw their proposal to eliminate the national clean car standards. The current clean car standards require significant and feasible reductions in fuel usage and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger cars and light trucks. The […]
Release date: 10/17/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed two separate price gouging lawsuits (attached) today involving tree removal in the Wilmington area. In the first suit, two Kentucky-based tree cutting services, Action Tree Pros and Premier Landscaping and Lawn Care, charged excessive prices for tree removal services, including $29,500 to remove one tree. The other suit, filed […]
Release date: 10/16/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the Trump administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to reverse its efforts to delay and dismantle critical fair housing regulations. The letter was submitted in response to HUD’s proposal to amend the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. The AFFH […]
Release date: 10/15/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he has launched an investigation into Juul, the e-cigarette company. He sent the company a civil investigative demand to ask for more information about Juul’s marketing practices, retailers, contact with resellers, efforts to verify age before purchase, and any youth education and awareness programs. […]
Release date: 10/11/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein wrote Google CEO Sundar Pichai to demand answers about the company’s security and safety. This week, Google announced a security breach to its Google+ network.“North Carolinians have a number of good reasons to be concerned about their privacy online,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “I want to […]
Release date: 10/10/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein urged U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to help former North Carolina students at Dream Center schools obtain relief for student debt by extending the closed school discharge (CSD) eligibility period for these students. Attorney General Stein is asking Secretary DeVos to declare any students who […]
Release date: 10/9/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to demand answers about the company’s security and safety. Last week, Facebook announced that 50 million of its accounts were hacked. Attorney General Josh Stein is already investigating Facebook after another breach earlier this year. “Incident after incident has North Carolinians very […]
Release date: 10/9/2018 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today called on the Federal Communications Commission to create new rules to allow telephone service providers to block more illegal robocalls being made to North Carolinians. In addition to taking today’s action, Attorney General Stein is leading a bipartisan working group of forty State Attorneys General to […]
10/2/2018 Attorney General Josh Stein October 2018 Grandparents and grandchildren often have a special relationship. Kids are used to getting away with a little more with their grandparents, and grandparents are happy to spoil their grandkids a little. Some con artists know this and are only too willing to take advantage of a grandparent’s love […]
Saturday, September 29, 2018 Vehicles that have been totally or partially submerged often show up for sale on new and used car lots, after extensive cleaning that makes it hard for buyers to detect damage. Under North Carolina law flood damage must be disclosed in writing, but title paperwork is sometimes unlawfully altered to remove any […]