Attorney General Josh Kaul is combining the state Department of Justice’s environmental and consumer protection units in an effort to gain an additional environmental attorney position.
Kaul, a Democrat, announced the move Thursday.
He said in a news release that the new Public Protection Unit will be overseen by a single director. That will open up a director position which the agency can fill with an attorney that will focus mostly on environmental cases.
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The change also will allow the agency to combine the two former units paralegals and legal associates on complex consumer-protection and environmental cases.
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