News Releases - 2023 Archive - Page 6

DES MOINES— Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced that Iowa and a coalition of 41 other states negotiated a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with Indivior Inc., manufacturer of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone. Iowa will receive over $1 million from the settlement. The Suboxone medicine originated as a tablet and...

DES MOINES— Today, Attorney General Bird led a coalition of 19 states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) decision to allow California to illegally ban trucks. That ban forces truckers to buy electric trucks and regulates trucking out of existence through mandating net-zero emissions standards. The Biden Administration gave California...

IOWA AND 22 OTHER STATES PUSH TO PERMANENTLY CRIMINALIZE FENTANYL ANALOGUES AND FIGHT THE FENTANYL CRISIS

DES MOINES – Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced the addition of two new staff members to her senior team. Bird named Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice Susan Krisko and Deputy Attorney General for Consumer Protection Daniel Barnes to serve in the Attorney General’s office. “We couldn’t ask for two...

DES MOINES— Attorney General Bird joined 18 other states in a lawsuit Wednesday to challenge the Biden Administration’s “Circumvention of Legal Pathways” immigration rule. The unlawful policy increases the number of illegal aliens in the United States by guaranteeing entry for those who meet simple conditions. During the worst border...

DES MOINES— Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird released the following statement today after SCOTUS issued a decision in Sackett v. EPA to protect American landowners. “I’m glad that the Supreme Court ruled to protect American farmers and landowners and to narrow the EPA’s overreaching definition of Waters of the United States....

DES MOINES – Attorney General Bird joined 18 other states in a letter opposing President Joe Biden’s efforts to misuse the Fourteenth Amendment to single-handedly and unconstitutionally raise the federal debt ceiling.  The House of Representatives passed a bill last month to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever...

DES MOINES— Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 48 other states in a lawsuit against Avid Telecom, its owner, and its chief officers for facilitating billions of illegal robocalls to millions of Americans.   Since 2019, about 9,000 of these fraudulent calls have targeted Iowa alone. Avid Telecom has helped make hundreds of millions of...

DES MOINES – Attorney General Bird joined Governor Reynolds for a roundtable discussion with local law enforcement and signing of the fentanyl bill they partnered on to increase penalties for drug users and dealers. The new law raises punishments to 50 years in prison for individuals found guilty of possessing...

DES MOINES—Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today announced new claims in her lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s illegal immigration parole action. Those new claims challenge the Biden Administration’s attempt to use immigration parole to release illegal immigrants into the country while record numbers flood the southern border.   The original...