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Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Below are the updates from May 8-14, 2025

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  • A coalition of 23 state attorneys general submitted an amicus brief challenging the Trump Administration’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The brief argues that the restructuring of CFPB would cause irreparable harm to consumers and state consumer protection enforcement efforts, reduce oversight of the nation’s largest banks, and increase burdens on state agencies to protect consumers.
  • A coalition of 23 state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. House of Representatives Leadership and the House Financial Services Committee encouraging the House to vote against a resolution that would overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2024 rule limiting banks’ ability to impose overdraft fees. Currently the rule prevents banks from charging excessive overdraft fees that may lead to negative effects on consumers’ credit scores or result in account closures.

Continue Reading State AG News: Consumer Protection, Medicaid Fraud, Environment May 8-14, 2025

Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Here are last week’s updates.

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• A multi-state coalition of 20 state attorneys general submitted a comment letter opposing the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)’s interim final rule which repeals the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The NEPA requires federal agencies to conduct thorough review of the environmental implications of its projects or rules. The coalition of state attorneys general argue that NEPA’s repeal will have a negative impact on state natural resources and their residents through the adverse effects of climate change. Further, the letter argues that the repeal rule violates the Administrative Procedure Act, NEPA, and the Endangered Species Act.Continue Reading State AG News: Environment, Healthcare, Labor & Employment March 27 – April 2, 2025

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is investigating two leading proxy advisors’ advice involving the consideration of ESG and DEI to determine if the advice constitutes deceptive or unfair trade practices under FL law or a violation of FL antitrust law. Click here to read the full alert.

Companies frequently face a multitude of enforcement priorities from federal and state enforcers. Join us as we discuss ways to balance competing enforcement priorities from the federal government along with potentially, 50 different states’ laws and enforcement regimes. Learn the answer to the question “What are some of the priorities companies can expect to see…

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Democratic State Attorneys General took a series of actions to defend Biden Administration Rules on the environment, firearms, and immigration, in the final days before President Trump returned to the White House. While these State AGs argue that the rules at issue protect the public health and safety of their constituents and the nation, the incoming Administration has indicated that it may withdraw its support from some or all of these regulations. Notably, many of the Rules in question face legal challenges from Republican State Attorneys General. A look at the Democratic AGs’ actions is below.Continue Reading Democratic State Attorneys General Move To Protect Key Priorities Just Days Before the Inauguration of President Trump

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On November 27, 2024, a group of eleven state attorneys general (the “AGs”) sued three of the world’s largest asset managers (the “Asset Managers”), accusing them of anticompetitive stock acquisitions, deceptive asset management practices, and an antitrust conspiracy to restrict coal output. The states seek declaratory and injunctive relief including divestitures, as well as fines under state laws, although the allegations could provide a basis for follow-on private treble damages claims under the antitrust laws.

The AGs’ antitrust and consumer protection suit follows a series of cease-and-desist letters and demands for information by many state attorneys general including the plaintiffs here, as well as a lengthy congressional investigation accusing sustainability-focused investors and climate activists of forming a “climate cartel.” That investigation produced an extensive House Judiciary Committee Report compiling internal material regarding activities by sustainability-focused investment groups and their members, which the minority “Counterreport” alleged had been subpoenaed and published specifically to enable like-minded state law enforcers to bring suit.

While this client alert focuses on the details of the litigation against these Asset Managers, there are practical steps that all companies should take when considering sustainability-focused collaborations, standards, or goals. We discuss some of them below, as well as in a recent client alert and a ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ Trends article.Continue Reading Eleven States Sue Asset Managers Alleging ESG Conspiracy to Restrict Coal Production

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