15 April 2014
Attorneys general sue DeVos over delay of rule to protect students from predatory colleges
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The state attorneys case could be bolstered by an appeals court ruling Monday striking down the Environmental Protection Agency’s suspension of new emission standards on oil and gas wells. The EPA used similarreasoning as the Education Department in delaying the regulation, but the court said that while the agency could reconsider the rule, it could not delay the effective date while seeking to rewrite the statute.
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The secretarysaid the uk canada goose suspension will have no impact on the tens of thousands of pending claims because the oldregulation remains on the books, but state attorneys general say the existing statute doesn’t go far enough to protect students.
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