公用事业单位可能在 9 月 30 日停供华盛顿州民众的能源、用水

OLYMPIA — 总检察长 Bob Ferguson 将要向有欠费账户并且可能面临公用事业停供的公用事业客户提供指导意见。全州范围的公用事业停供暂停令于 9 月 30 日结束。

根据公用事业档案，在 6 月份，本州的五家投资者所有的公用事业单位有超过 280,000 户欠费。该总数相当于 2020 年 3 月份时的数字。但是在 2020 年 3 月，民众拖欠的金额总计才刚过 3,900 万美元。截至 6 月份，该数字已翻两倍多，超过了 8,000 万美元。在该总数中，将近 5,400 万美元来自欠费 90 天或更久的账单。

截至 6 月份，该五家能源公司的欠费客户数量如下：

Utilities can shutoff Washingtonians’ energy, water on Sept. 30

OLYMPIA —  Attorney General Bob Ferguson is offering guidance for utility customers who have past due accounts and may be at risk of a utility shutoff. The statewide moratorium on utility disconnections ends on Sept. 30.

Flawed plan gives Sackler family lifetime legal shield

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today he will appeal Purdue Pharma’s flawed bankruptcy plan. Ferguson asserts that the plan is inadequate, and that a bankruptcy court doesn’t have the authority to prevent attorneys general from enforcing state law, including the decision to pursue the company’s owners, the Sackler family, for their illegal conduct.

Ending exclusive contracts with area medical clinics saves patients money

AG’s project results in 345 DNA samples collected from registered sex offenders, finds 225 uncollectable; 65 remain uncollected

Housing counselors will explain new federal protections for homeowners that start Aug. 31

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced the team that will facilitate the Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIW/P) Task Force. Legislative appointments to the task force are expected later this month.

CHEHALIS — A Lewis County Superior Court judge entered an order of commitment Friday to civilly commit a sex offender after the Washington Attorney General’s Office filed a petition to remove him from community custody.

Blake Juan Garcia, 25, was convicted of child molestation in the first degree in 2010 and in the second degree in 2014. Garcia was in community custody in Lewis and King counties and had violated the terms of his release.

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued the following statement after two key legal victories on Friday in Washington’s case against opioid distributors McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp.

“We won two more key victories in our case against the three largest opioid distributors for their role fueling the opioid epidemic by shipping hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders into Washington state.

Judge orders J&J to produce 100,000 documents the corporation has been hiding for years
 
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson offers the following statement on a recent ruling in his lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson: