For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein praised the U.S. Department of Education for stronger measures it is proposing to prevent for-profit schools from taking advantage of federal aid and students – particularly military servicemembers. Attorney General Stein commended the Department’s proposed improvements to the 90/10 […]
Monday, August 29, 2022 Last week, the federal government announced big changes to student loan repayment and relief, and scammers are looking to take advantage. The government plans to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loans per borrower and extend the payment pause on federal student loan repayments through the end of the year. […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, August 26, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed designating two types of PFAS – PFOS and PFOA – as “hazardous substances.” The designation will give people more information about the level of contamination in their community […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today petitioned the U.S. Department of Education to get student loan relief for more than a thousand students who enrolled at now-closed Charlotte School of Law during or after the fall of 2013. “Charlotte School of Law put its […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, August 19, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Haaland v. Brackeen urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a challenge to longstanding protections guaranteed to Native American children, their families, and tribal communities under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). “Protecting our kids is job one for the […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein has reached an agreement in principle with opioid maker Endo International plc and its lenders that would provide up to $450 million to participating states and local governments and ban promotion of Endo’s opioids. “Every drug company that helped […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein took additional legal actions today to protect women’s reproductive freedoms after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. He filed two friend-of-the-court briefs to defend hospitals’ obligations to provide stabilizing emergency treatment, including abortions, when a pregnant woman’s health is […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 The Education Department approves $3.9 billion group discharge for 208,000 borrowers nationwide who attended ITT Technical Institute (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that 5,270 North Carolinians who attended ITT Technical Institute will have their remaining federal student loans cancelled, totaling $93.4 million […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, August 15, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed 919-716-0060 (RALEIGH) The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) on Saturday honored Attorney General Josh Stein with the organization’s Distinguished Service Award for his work to fight the opioid crisis and bring hundreds of millions of dollars to local governments across North Carolina. The […]
For Immediate Release: Saturday, August 13, 2022 (RALEIGH) The North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Education and Training Standards Commission today released the following statement in response to attacks on law enforcement officers in North Carolina. “As the regulatory bodies responsible for maintaining the minimum standards for […]