DOVER, Delaware, July 1 (TNSgov) -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Today, the Delaware General Assembly advanced a new privacy bill supported by Consumer Reports. If the bill is signed into law by Governor John Carney, Delaware would become the 12th state, after California, Utah, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Florida, and Texas to extend baseline privacy rights to consumers, including the right to access, delete, and st  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, June 28 (TNSgov) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Late last week, a federal judge approved a stipulation by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) not to "take any action to apply, effectuate, or enforce the provisions of HB 576 or SB 392" for seven months. The laws passed by the Montana Legislature earlier this year, which weaken water and environmental protections from coal mining, claimed to go into effect immediately. The Legislature ev  more

HELENA, Montana, June 28 (TNSgov) -- Earthworks issued the following news release: On Friday, June 23, Montana District Court Judge Christopher Abbott ordered the Office of the Governor of Montana to release internal documents regarding the decision of the Gianforte Administration to drop a mining enforcement case against a designated "bad actor" under Montana's hardrock mining act. The records were originally sought by the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) and Earthworks. The gro  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 27 (TNSgov) -- The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution that says its mission is to advance free-market public policy, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: On Friday, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Montana Medical Association v. Knudsen, calling on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District to protect states from the expansion of federal regulations without congressional approval. "A bedrock principle o  more

HELENA, Montana, July 1 (TNSgov) -- WTA-Advocates for Rural Broadband issued the following news on June 30, 2023: Yesterday, representatives from WTA met with staff from the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau to discuss the circulating Order and proposals to modify the ACAM and CAF-BLS mechanisms for small USF High Cost Program recipients. WTA hopes that the ultimately adopted order and revised high-cost support mechanisms will provide sufficient funding to encourage and enable RLECs to complet  more