SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following statement on Aug. 14, 2023: * * * Last week, in a victory for the State of Utah and its local communities, S&P Global Ratings announced that it would no longer publish new or update outstanding ESG credit indicators. Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, a national leader in the fight to bring the ESG movement into conformity with the rule of law, issued the following statement: "This is a very significant mov  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Aug. 14, 2023, and a letter: This month, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a coalition of 24 states in urging Congress to protect funding for school archery, hunting, and firearm safety courses by enacting the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act. As part of the Department of Education's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), schools that offer such educational opportunit  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 17 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined attorneys general from six other states in submitting a letter urging U.S. Congress leaders to support legislation to protect investors' privacy. The letter supports S. 2230/H.R. 4551, the Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act. This legislation would protect investors against the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Consolidate  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined two comment letters from the States of Ohio and West Virginia opposing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed rulemaking called "New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Fossil Fuel-Fired Elect  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 18 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in sending a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders expressing support for the Governing Unaccredited Representatives Defrauding VA Benefits Act (G.U.A.R.D. VA Benefits Act). The letter, led by the National Association of Attorneys General and signed by 44 attorneys general, was transmitted to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McC  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 19 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a coalition of states in sending a letter to U.S. Congressional leaders supporting the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression ("EATS") Act. The letter, led by the State of Iowa, was addressed to U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The EATS   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes wasted no time in starting the process of appealing the ruling in the Monuments case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a necessary stop before any trip to the U.S. Supreme Court. "All along, the State of Utah has sought appropriate protections of the precious, unique area in the heart of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante regions," General R  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 17 -- The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity issued the following news: Today, the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded OmniTeq a post-performance tax reduction for its expansion in Davis County. The corporate incentive is part of the state's Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF) program. As part of the agreement, OmniTeq projects to add over 4,000 new, high-paying jobs and invest $33 million in Utah during the next 10 yea  more

PRICE, Utah, Aug. 16 -- Utah State University Eastern campus issued the following news: Utah State University instructor Jason Marshall has been promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer. Marshall is a criminal justice faculty member at USU Eastern, working in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "I have always been a big proponent of constantly looking for ways to improve yourself and grow," Marshall said. "This promotion gives me the opportunity and even more incentive to improve m  more

PRICE, Utah, Aug. 16 -- Utah State University issued the following news: By Marcus Jensen Utah State University instructor Jason Marshall has been promoted from lecturer to senior lecturer. Marshall is a criminal justice faculty member at USU Eastern, working in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "I have always been a big proponent of constantly looking for ways to improve yourself and grow," Marshall said. "This promotion gives me the opportunity and even more incentive to improv  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16 -- Verizon, a communications and technology solutions company, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: Today, Verizon announced that it now has access to the total amount of 5G C-band spectrum awarded at auction in March 2021 - four months ahead of schedule. Salt Lake City residents and visitors will now be able to use a full 160 MHz of spectrum, nearly tripling the 5G bandwidth available to serve customers throughout Salt Lake City. This allows Verizon  more

OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 15 -- Weber State University issued the following news on Aug. 14, 2023: Ogden native and former corporate executive and legal counsel for Citigroup Karla Bergeson was elected as chair of Weber State University's Board of Trustees at its annual orientation meeting today. Bergeson, who was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 2017 and served as vice chair since 2021, thanked the board members for their trust in her leadership. "I am honored and privileged to serve as chair  more