Other LanguagesAG Brown names Morgan Damerow Chief Transparency Counsel
Attorney General Nick Brown has chosen veteran open government advocate Morgan Damerow to lead the office’s new Public Records and Open Government Unit.
State leaders condemn DOE order on TransAlta coal power generation
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, Attorney General Nick Brown, and Ecology Director Casey Sixkiller released a joint statement today in response to the Trump administration’s 11th-hour efforts to prevent the TransAlta power plant in Centralia from ceasing coal power generation at the end of this year.
“Under the guise of ‘emergency powers,’ U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright is attempting to force Washington state’s dirtiest power plant to continue burning coal. Let’s be clear: there’s no emergency here.
AG Brown co-leads multistate coalition suing over USDOT’s illegal attack on EV charging infrastructure
Washington Attorney General Nick Brown today co-led a multistate coalition in suing the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) for unlawfully suspending two bipartisan grant programs for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure that would reduce pollution, expand access to clean vehicles, and create thousands of jobs.
States settle with Hyundai, Kia over failure to equip vehicles with anti-theft technology
Hyundai and Kia will provide restitution to consumers and fixes to eligible vehicles under a settlement reached by Attorney General Nick Brown and 35 other state attorneys general for the automakers’ sale of millions of vehicles nationwide that lacked industry-standard, anti-theft technology.
This failure resulted in an epidemic of car thefts and joy riding across the country that continues to threaten public safety. Under the settlement, Hyundai and Kia have agreed to:
AG Brown secures court order protecting SNAP benefits
Attorney General Nick Brown today released the following statement after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to penalize states with millions of dollars in fines related to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) operations:
AG’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit secures first conviction
A judge in Clallam County Superior Court sentenced Tina Marie Alcorn to more than 13 years in prison today after she pleaded guilty to the murder of George David in 2016. The Attorney General’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) Cold Case Investigations Unit helped to secure the conviction, its first since the unit was established in 2023.
Washington sues over Trump administration’s unlawful new $100K fee for H-1B visa
Attorney General Nick Brown on Friday joined a coalition of 20 states in suing the Trump administration over its unlawful policy imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions. The H-1B visa program allows employers to petition for high-skilled foreign workers to temporarily fill positions in specialty occupations, including physicians, researchers, nurses, and other vital workers, in order to alleviate nationwide labor shortages.
Washington and multistate coalition secure a victory preventing billions in cuts to disaster mitigation funding
Court order requires Trump administration to reverse illegal shutdown of the FEMA BRIC program
Washington and a multistate coalition today won their lawsuit against the Trump administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike.