Recent NewsOctober 11 - Herring Wins Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump/Cuccinelli Attack on Legal Immigrants Attorney General Mark R. Herring has won a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump and Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli’s radical overhaul of the so-called “public charge” rules.
The Commonwealth of Virginia has reached an agreement with Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC that will force the company to submit to court-ordered and court-supervised compliance with environmental protections, impose additional layers of independent, third-party monitoring on the project, and require the payment of a significant $2.15 million civil penalty.
October 9 - Herring Continues Fight for Clean Air and Climate Change Efforts Attorney General Mark Herring is stepping in to defend the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to protect clean air and limit greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns that the Trump Administration may not vigorously defend the authority in pending lawsuits brought by fossil fuel companies.
October 4 - Herring and DFS Launching Statewide Sexual Assault Kit Tracking System Attorney General Mark R. Herring and the Department of Forensic Science (DFS) are launching Virginia’s first-ever statewide PERK tracking system, a secure, comprehensive electronic tracking system that will allow survivors, DFS, law enforcement agencies, and hospitals to know the status and location of a PERK kit at any given moment.
October 3 - Herring Opposes Purdue Pharma’s $38 Million Dollar Bonuses for Company Executives Attorney General Mark R. Herring has filed a legal objection to Purdue Pharma’s authorization request for its $38 million dollar incentive, bonus, and severance plans.
September 30 - Herring Continues Fight to Preserve DACA and Protect DREAMers Attorney General Herring joined a coalition of 16 attorneys general today in filing a brief with the United States Supreme Court in the coalition’s ongoing lawsuit to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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