WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement issued the following news release: The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is inviting public comment on the Spring Creek Mine Federal Mining Plan Modification Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The 45-day public comment period will open when the draft EIS is published in the Federal Register. OSMRE prepared this EIS to further analyze the environmental im  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 31 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas, along with a bipartisan coalition of 29 other states, has reached a settlement ending the outstanding damages phase of an unclaimed property dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court. Texas and the other states will take possession of more than $190 million in unclaimed property. In 2023, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court sided with Texas and its coalition partners, holding that unclaimed official ch  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 31 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a nationwide stay that blocks the Biden Administration from forcing federally-funded healthcare providers to conduct "gender transition" surgeries. Previously, Texas won a stay of agency action that blocked the rule from enforcement in the plaintiff States, Texas and Montana. Applying the same logic, Texas then argued for nationwide relief, and the court has expan  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following news release: Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor will lead a U.S. Department of Agriculture trade mission to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 9-13, joined by representatives from 58 agribusinesses and organizations and nine state governments that represent the diversity of U.S. agriculture. While the trade mission takes place in Vietnam  more