HELENA – Montana Attorney General Knudsen called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to postpone for a month its hasty decision to cut in half the flow rates out of Fort Peck Dam and protect the northeast Montana sugar beet harvest. In a letter...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today asked a federal board to overturn the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to grant a permit change allowing bison grazing in Phillips County. The permit is a part of the American Prairie Reserve’s broader effort to...
HELENA – More than three dozen leaders from law enforcement, criminal prosecution, advocacy groups, public health, and private industry leaders came together today in Helena to discuss efforts and effective strategies to combat human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in Montana. The event was hosted...
Montana is one of dozens of states that have reached an agreement in principle with opioid maker Endo International PLC, Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced today. It resolves allegations that the Ireland-based drugmaker boosted opioid sales using deceptive marketing that downplayed the risk of addiction...
In response to the state Supreme Court’s self-serving 5-2 decision to uphold a lower court ruling that Montanans do not have the right to decide how they elect their Supreme Court justices, Attorney General Knudsen issued the following statement: “Opinions from the Montana Supreme Court have...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is continuing to fight the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “unprecedented masking mandate regulating every breath of millions of Americans." The CDC issued the mandate days after President Biden’s inauguration. An amicus brief filed in the...
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced the formation of a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force with 49 other states that is investigating and will take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States. This...
HELENA – In response to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) final decision today granting the American Prairie Reserve a permit change to allow bison grazing in Phillips County, Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement: “After shutting out public input from local communities,...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 21 other state attorneys general filed a lawsuit today against the Biden administration’s new guidance that threatens to withhold federal nutritional assistance for schools and programs that receive federal nutritional assistance. In May, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Services...
HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today called on federal courts promote responsible energy production on federal land by stopping manipulative abuses of procedure environmental standards. In an amicus brief filed today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Knudsen asked...