WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) and the Office of the People’s Counsel (OPC) filed a complaint against Pepco for systemically mishandling community solar projects, potentially overcharging more than 6,800 District households on their monthly electric bills, and undermining the District’s efforts to meet its clean energy goals.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine joined a coalition of 20 states and localities in urging the retraction of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “legally incorrect” guidance to States regarding Clean Power Plan implementation—which was not just legally erroneous, but also flies in the face of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s subsequent agreement to recuse himself from the Clean Power Plan litigation given his conflicts of interest.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine, along with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, is leading a bipartisan coalition of 50 state and territorial attorneys general in urging Congress to affirm that all law-enforcement agencies retain their traditional authority to fight sex trafficking.

Washington, DC – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today released a comprehensive report highlighting major accomplishments of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in the first 100 days after he took office January 2. The report, titled “The First 100 Days: The March Toward Justice,” outlines accomplishments in areas such as standing up an independent OAG, defending the District’s autonomy, protecting consumers, reaching out to the community, and providing objective and independent legal advice to the District’s officials and agencies.

WASHINGTON, D. C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and attorneys general from multiple states sued today to block Anthem’s proposed acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana, alleging that the transactions would increase concentration in the health-insurance market and harm competition across the country. These acquisitions would reduce the number of large, national health insurers in the nation from five to three.

Washington, DC – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today expressed satisfaction that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the core registration requirement for rifles and other long guns under the District’s gun laws, in addition to five other restrictions. However, the Attorney General also expressed concern that the majority opinion struck down four other requirements.

WASHINGTON, D. C. –– Joining a coalition of 18 states and municipalities, Attorney General Karl A. Racine has submitted a 30-page comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on due process violations, lack of fairness, and ethical lapses that arise from Administrator Scott Pruitt’s involvement in the proposed rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP is a strong, effective, and science-based policy that would significantly reduce carbon pollution from power plants, the country's largest stationary source of climate-damaging pollution.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine has joined a coalition of 11 state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the U.S.