OKLAHOMA CITY (June 9, 2023) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond praised the governor and state Legislature today for approving a suite of legislation this year to help law enforcement crack down on Oklahoma’s plethora of illegal marijuana grow operations. Gov. Stitt today signed the last of the marijuana-related bills.
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June 9, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 9, 2023) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond joined a coalition of 26 state attorneys general pushing back against the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) proposed rule change to increase state regulation. OMB is suggesting a rewrite of Circular A-4, which tells federal agencies how to do their cost-benefit analysis.
June 8, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 8, 2023) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined a coalition of 19 states challenging the Environmental Protection Agency decision allowing California to illegally ban trucks. The ban forces truckers to buy electric trucks and regulates trucking out of existence through mandating net-zero emissions standards.
The Biden Administration gave California the authority to force most buses, vans, trucks and tractor-trailers to be electric by 2035. Currently, only 2 percent of heavy trucks sold in the U.S. are electric.
June 7, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 7, 2023) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond made the following remarks after the state Pardon and Parole Board today rejected clemency for death row inmate. Jemaine Cannon. In 1996, a Tulsa County jury convicted Cannon and sentenced him to death for the February 1995 stabbing death of Sharonda Clark.
Drummond appeared before the Board earlier this morning to oppose clemency.
June 5, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 5, 2023) – Following the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board’s approval today of an application for what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, Attorney General Gentner Drummond said the decision is unconstitutional and that legal action is likely after a contract for the school is signed.
The Board voted today 3-2 to approve an application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to establish St. Isidore of Seville Virtual Catholic Charter School as an online public charter school.
June 3, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (May 18, 2023) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond today joined a bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general in urging Congressional leadership to pass the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act (H.R.1839/S.993), which would provide critical measures to combat the widespread illicit use and trafficking of xylazine and help prevent xylazine-related deaths.
June 2, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 2, 2023) - Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and 40 other U.S. attorneys general have negotiated a $102.5 million settlement with the maker of Suboxone, a prescription medication used to treat opioid addiction. Oklahoma will receive approximately $1.27 million from the settlement against the pharmaceutical company, Indivior Inc.
June 1, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (June 1, 2023) – As part of an 18-state coalition, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is suing the Biden administration over its proposed new “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” rule.
May 26, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (May 26, 2023) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond lauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling yesterday in Sackett v. EPA, a decision that limits the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency.
At issue was the EPA’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that had been opposed by Oklahoma and other states.
May 26, 2023
OKLAHOMA CITY (May 26, 2023) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond has joined an amicus brief led by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares in the case of Florida v. Mayorkas, supporting the State of Florida’s lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s unlawful immigration policy that is creating a dangerous crisis on our southern border. Rather than detaining illegal immigrants as the law requires, the Biden Administration has released those cited at the border into the U.S.