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Record temperatures prompt push for environmental justice bills

3 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Jeniffer Solis

As temperatures soared past 100 degrees in early October, Yajaira Rimendes, a 35-year-old former nurse, started to feel faint at a bus stop in North Las Vegas. It was midday and she was on her way to a chemotherapy appointment. She drank her only remaining water, which was already lukewarm, and passed out. “I don’t remember much, but from what I remember I woke up in a hospital,” Rimendes said.
Home improvement fraud bill moves through committee | News From The States

5 days ago | newsfromthestates.com

A new bill introduced to pressure unresponsive home contractors into mediating with unsatisfied customers, who are often locked into construction contracts that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, passed through the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Hobbs sides with Axon over Scottsdale voters, signs bill to cancel election challenging HQ project

6 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation to give law enforcement technology company Axon a carve-out in state law that will let it avoid voter review of its planned massive headquarters and housing project in north Scottsdale. Axon came to the Capitol in 2025 aiming to bar voters in every city and town in Arizona from being able to challenge zoning and development decisions.
Advocates say clean energy tax credits further Trump agenda regardless of climate benefits

6 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Cami Koons

Research from The Nature Conservancy found current clean energy tax credits, if kept in place through 2032 would add more than $238 million in annual economic value to Iowa. Some folks fear the tax credits will be slashed by congressional leaders as they stare down hefty budget cuts and eye Biden-era environmental policies, but advocates of the clean energy credits say they are essential to reaching American energy dominance.
ACLU-WV sues Trump administration officials over Marshall student’s revoked visa

6 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Lori Kersey

The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a Marshall University graduate student whose visa was “unlawfully” revoked as a part of an immigration crackdown by President Donald Trump’s administration. More than 1,000 international students at 160 colleges and universities across the country have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since March, according to a report by the Associated Press.
Louisiana legislator seeks ‘abortion coercion’ changes, Nebraska lawmaker focuses on fetal remains

6 days ago | newsfromthestates.com | Kelcie Moseley-Morris

Abortion-related bills continue to be introduced and debated in statehouses across the country, especially in states where the procedure is already banned. Many bills aimed at further restricting abortion access have so far not been as successful as in prior years, including new attempts to restrict travel to states where abortion is legal for a procedure and efforts to restrict abortion medication.
Annual report cites Alaska’s Susitna River as under threat from development

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Yereth Rosen

Southcentral Alaska’s Susitna River is one of the nation’s most endangered rivers because of a state plan to build a 100-mile road into its uplands to encourage mining, oil and gas drilling, logging and other development, according to a report released Wednesday. The Susitna ranked eighth on a list of 10 threatened waterways cited in the annual report issued by the conservation group American Rivers.
Advocates work to address challenges in the health care system for Michigan’s Black mothers

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Andrew Roth

State Rep. Stephanie Young (D-Detroit) joined Mothering Justice for an event in Lansing to mark Black Maternal Health Week on Wednesday. She said events like the advocacy day organized by Mothering Justice are important to the legislative process. “Legislation usually starts, unfortunately, when something may have gone wrong or something is under attack,” Young said.
Too much communication: For cell phones in schools, simpler may be better

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Randy Stapilus

What do you do with legislation that cuts into the middle of how Oregonians live their lives, when most people want it but many are sharply opposed? The short answer: Test it, when that’s possible. Launch a suggested solution, but keep specifics general enough that details emerge through trial and error. That can mean requiring local governments to act but encouraging them to become the laboratories where we learn what works well or not.
College isn’t for everyone. Good pathways to good jobs are good options

1 week ago | newsfromthestates.com | Kalman R. Hettleman

WARNING: This column may be hazardous to the comfort level of many readers. It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucratic weeds of the many agencies at the center of the world of Career and Technical Education (CTE), as I have in my research. Still, please give the column a try. We must struggle to understand the serious growing pains that threaten CTE’s success.