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OLYMPIA – Attorney General Rob McKenna announced today that Washington will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to order the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to respond to a landmark ruling that requires the agency to exercise its authority to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.
Attorney General’s Public Counsel Section urges customers to comment on PSE’s proposed rate hikes and merger
SEATTLE – The Attorney General’s Public Counsel Section, which represents the public in utility rate cases, says Puget Sound Energy customers need to keep an eye out for a special notice in their April/May bills.
SEATTLE – Simon ffitch, chief of Public Counsel Section within the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, said the office is taking a hard look at Northwest Natural Gas’ new proposal to increase rates for its approximately 66,000 residential customers in Southwest Washington.
OLYMPIA – Attorney General Rob McKenna announced that he and 10 other attorneys general sent a letter today to the Federal Communications Commission urging greater protections for consumers in the proposed merger of satellite giants Sirius and XM.
OLYMPIA…The Attorney General’s Office this week named Tim Lang as the new Division Chief of the office’s newly formed Corrections Division.
The new Corrections Division emerged after a reorganization of the Criminal Justice Division (CJD) in the Attorney General’s office earlier this year. The reorganization splits the duties of the larger division into two smaller divisions, in response to its growing size and complexity.
SEATTLE – A new state government program is helping resolve disputes between manufactured home owners and their landlords. Attorney General Rob McKenna, Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup, and Rep. Dawn Morrell, D-Puyallup, today announced a new statewide tour to educate homeowners and landlords about their legal rights and how the Attorney General’s Office can help them resolve problems.
SEATTLE – A revamped state government program is helping resolve disputes between manufactured homeowners and landlords.
Attorney General Rob McKenna and Sen. Jim Kastama, D- Puyallup, will explain why this new program is so important during a press conference this afternoon in Seattle.
SEATTLE – A new state government program is helping resolve disputes between manufactured homeowners and landlords and ensuring the state’s nearly 1,400 park owners continue to comply with state laws.
Attorney General Rob McKenna and Sen. Jim Kastama will explain why this new program is important during a press conference Wednesday afternoon in Seattle.
Rep. Dawn Morrell and Sen. Kastama will then join staff from the Attorney General’s Office during an evening public forum in Puyallup to kick off the statewide “Don’t Move It; Solve It” tour.
SEATTLE – The Washington Attorney General’s Office is accusing a Scottsdale, Ariz., man of coercing consumers to buy software to block computer pop-ups by first bombarding them with ads for pornography and Viagra. In a civil lawsuit filed today in King County Superior Court in Seattle, the state alleges that consumers who downloaded the software were further victimized when the program caused their computers to stealthily blast messages to other PCs at a rate of one every two seconds.
By Attorney General Rob McKenna
Special for Sunshine Week
As both Attorney General and a former King County Council member, I have always believed in the core principle of transparency in government as a means of building trust and demonstrating accountability.
In fact, “T” for transparency is the first of the six core values of the Attorney General’s Office:
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