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Of the $4.325 billion the Sacklers will pay over the next nine years, Hawai‘i is expected to receive an estimated $13 million for opioid abatement.

Hawai’i Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 29 attorney generals from around the nation and Hawai’i Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) Executive Director Stephen Levins to support the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its efforts to combat fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct.

Under a settlement reached by a coalition of 11 states joined by Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to require the chemical industry to provide the agency with information about the use and importation of asbestos needed to protect the public from the serious health risks posed by exposure to highly toxic asbestos.

Hawai’i Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general, led by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, calling on the Trump Administration to delay its “public charge” rule while the COVID-19 outbreak and response is ongoing.

The coalition claimed to have outlined the Dream Center’s “misconduct and mismanagement that prevented students from obtaining degrees.”

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a group of 20 Attorneys General and New York City in a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from eliminating food assistance for nearly 700,000 Americans.

The brief, Reproductive Health Services v. Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, was filed in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, argues that these laws are unconstitutional restrictions on womenʻs right to choose. 

In the lawsuit, Rhode Island seeks to hold oil companies accountable for their alleged contributions to climate change and the resulting harms the state suffered from sea-level rise, changes to the hydrologic cycle, and increased air and ocean temperatures.

All 56 attorneys general are calling for Congress to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs.

Hawaiʻi attorney general Clare E. Connors, along with 19 other attorneys general, filed a comment letter on Friday in opposition to a Trump Administration proposal that they say would significantly hinder asylum-seekers from obtaining work permits.

Attorney General Clare E. Connors, along with multiple organizations and universities, are urging the public to avoid purchasing and distributing MeToo kits. 

Last Friday, Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a coalition of 26 public jurisdiction and health care providers requesting the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to block the Trump administrationʻs “Refusal-of-Care” rule. 

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the US Court of Appeals last Monday. The attorneys general filed the brief to ask the court to maintain the current nationwide preliminary injunction on the Affordable Care Actʻs requirement that all employers must include birth coverage control in […]