AUGUSTA--Four Maine high schools that were selected by the Attorney General?s Office to start plumbing training programs with funds received from a consumer protection settlement, trained nearly 100 students this 2017-2018 academic year.

HOULTON, ME ? Last week Maine Attorney General Janet Mills was honored at Region Two School of Applied Technology in Houlton with the 2018 Financial Capability Innovation Award, presented by the nation?s leading technology innovator, EVERFI, Inc. The award recognized the Attorney General?s significant efforts to improve the financial literacy of Maine students through unique digital learning initiatives. This important initiative has empowered approximately four thousand Maine students in forty-five different communities.

AUGUSTA ? More than 680 students and advisors from 65 schools across 15 of Maine?s 16 counties will gather to discuss bias, harassment based on skin color, national origin, ancestry, religion, disabilities, gender, and sexual orientation at a day long, statewide conference hosted by Maine?s Civil Rights Team Project (CRTP) at the Augusta Civic Center on Friday, May 18, 2018.

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Janet Mills announced that her office has filed a civil complaint in the York County Superior Court against Dusty Leo, age 27, and Maurice Diggins, age 34, both of Biddeford, for the violent assault of an African-American man on April 15, 2018. The complaint requests that the court order Leo and Diggins to have no contact with the victim or his family and to commit no additional violations of the Maine Civil Rights Act.

AUGUSTA -- The National Association of Medical Examiners granted Maine's Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) full accreditation, citing it as one of the best Medical Examiner Offices in the country.

AUGUSTA ? This week Maine Attorney General Janet Mills joined a coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia in suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to preserve the greenhouse gas emission standards currently in place for model year 2022-2025 vehicles. The standards save drivers money at the pump, reduce oil consumption, and curb greenhouse gases.

AUGUSTA - Attorney General Janet Mills applauded the United States Supreme Court's decision today to let stand the ruling of the federal appeals court in March v. Mills in which the Office of the Attorney General successfully defended Maine's law protecting women seeking health care at clinics from loud and disturbing protests intended to interfere with the provision of health care. The Supreme Court this morning denied the petition for certiorari filed by the Thomas More Law Center.

AUGUSTA In recognition of national Crime Victims' Rights Week, Attorney General Janet T. Mills is raising awareness of victims' rights and services, including the assistance offered by the Maine Crime Victims' Compensation Program.

AUGUSTA ? Attorney General Janet Mills today joined a coalition of 15 Attorneys General and the City of Chicago in suing the Trump administration for ignoring its legal duty to control emissions of methane ? an extremely potent greenhouse gas ? from existing oil and gas operations. Specifically, the suit charges that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt has violated the federal Clean Air Act by ?unreasonably delaying? its obligation under the Act to control methane emissions from these operations.

AUGUSTA - The issue raised by the Secretary of State this morning, which I was made aware of for the first time today, needs to be addressed immediately so that the will of the people may be respected. The more than 62,000 citizens who signed the Peoples? Veto petitions deserve to have their voices heard. The will of the people must not be thwarted by some technicality in the law. I will file legislation today to be presented to the Legislative Council to ensure that Rank Choice Voting is in full effect for this June?s primary as the people have dictated.