AG Pax­ton: The EPA’s Ozone Rule Would Impose Cost­ly and Unnec­es­sary Reg­u­la­tions on San Antonio

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office today argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final action designating Bexar County a nonattainment area for the 2015 national ambient air quality standards for ground-level ozone.

October 09, 2019 | Press Release

Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Argues at Fifth Cir­cuit in Defense of State Laws Pro­tect­ing Women’s Health and the Unborn

Attorneys from Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to reverse a U.S. District Court decision enjoining a Mississippi law that generally restricts non-emergency abortions to the first 15 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy.

October 07, 2019 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Issues State­ment on Chap­ter 11 Bank­rupt­cy Fil­ing of Pur­due Pharma

Attorney General Paxton released the following statement in response to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Purdue Pharma and all affiliated U.S. companies in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

September 16, 2019 | Noteworthy

Texas Joins 20-State Coali­tion in Sup­port of Afford­able Ener­gy Plan

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a coalition of 20 states in supporting the Trump Administration’s Affordable Clean Energy rule against a court challenge by Democrat attorneys general.

September 13, 2019 | Press Release

Office of the Attor­ney Gen­er­al and the Texas Depart­ment of Licens­ing and Reg­u­la­tion Announce Part­ner­ship to Pro­tect Motor Fuel Con­sumers from Unsafe or Low Qual­i­ty Fuels

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) and the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) today announced their offices are partnering to protect consumers from the sale of contaminated or inferior quality motor vehicle fuel.

September 13, 2019 | Press Release

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Pax­ton Leads 50 Attor­neys Gen­er­al in Google Mul­ti­state Bipar­ti­san Antitrust Investigation

Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced that Texas is leading 50 attorneys general in a multistate, bipartisan investigation of tech giant Google’s business practices in accordance with state and federal antitrust laws.

September 09, 2019 | Press Release