2025 Press Releases

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• 12/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Opposition to Trump Rollbacks of PFAS Regulations

  Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 15 attorneys general opposing the Trump Administration’s efforts to gut data reporting and recording keeping requirements for PFAS forever chemicals.

• 12/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Nearly $150 Million Multistate Settlement with Mercedes-Benz USA and Mercedes-Benz AG Over Emissions Fraud

  Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 50 attorneys general announcing a $149,673,750 settlement with Mercedes-Benz USA and Mercedes-Benz AG for violating state laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices by marketing, selling and leasing vehicles equipped with undisclosed emissions defeat devices that illegally circumvented Connecticut’s strong emissions standards.

• 12/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Court Order to Unwind Trump Administration Unlawful Cancellation of School Mental Health Grants

  Attorney General William Tong announced today that a federal judge found that the U.S. Department of Education acted unlawfully by abruptly discontinuing previously approved grants to fund mental health professionals in K-12 schools following a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Tong and 15 other attorneys general.

• 12/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration to Defend Critical Consumer Protection Efforts

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the complete defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which has returned more than $21 billion improperly taken from over 205 million Americans throughout its 14-year existence.

• 12/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Latest Trump Attempt to Stop Revolution Wind

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the new order issued this morning by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management once again suspending work on the Revolution Wind offshore wind project.

• 12/19/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Court Order to Block HUD Changes That Would Have Left Thousands Without Housing

  ttorney General William Tong announced today that a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to halt changes to its Continuum of Care grant program — the largest resource for federal homelessness assistance funding — after a coalition of states argued in court that the changes were illegal and would leave tens of thousands of people around the country without a place to live.

• 12/18/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Trump Proposed Rules to End Medicaid and Medicare Funding for Hospitals Over Gender Affirming Care

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the proposed rules announced by the Trump Administration today that would prohibit Medicaid funding for gender affirming care for youth and strip hospitals of all Medicaid and Medicare funding if they continue to offer such care.

• 12/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces $455,598 False Claims Settlement with Branford Nurse

  Attorney General William Tong today announced a $455,598.31 settlement with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Dayna L. Giordano and her medical office resolving allegations that Giordano violated the Connecticut False Claims Act by causing pharmacies to bill the Connecticut Medical Assistance Program for injectable specialty drugs that Giordano failed to administer to patients.

• 12/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Multistate Settlement with Hyundai and Kia for their Sales of Vehicles Lacking Industry-Standard Anti-Theft Technology

  Attorney General William Tong today led a coalition of 35 other attorneys general announcing a settlement with automobile manufacturers Hyundai and Kia for their sale of millions of vehicles nationwide that lacked industry-standard, anti-theft technology.

• 12/15/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Court Order Protecting SNAP Benefits

  Attorney General William Tong today released the following statement after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to penalize states with millions of dollars in fines related to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) operations.

• 12/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Eversource Notice that it will Seek $88 Million Rate Hike for Aquarion

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the notice of intent filed by Eversource that the company will seek approval from the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority for an $88 million rate hike for Aquarion Water Company consumers

• 12/15/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Uber Over Unfair and Deceptive Practices

  Attorney General William Tong announced today that Connecticut and 21 other state and county law enforcement agencies have joined a lawsuit previously filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Uber Technologies, LLC and Uber USA, LLC, the operators of the popular rideshare and delivery company.

• 12/12/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Bipartisan Coalition of 42 Attorneys General in Letter to AI Software Companies Demanding Safeguards to Protect Vulnerable Residents from Harmful Interactions with Bots

  Attorney General William Tong this week joined a coalition of 42 attorneys general sending a letter to OpenAI, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other major artificial intelligence software production and distribution companies demanding more quality control and other safeguards over chatbot products.

• 12/12/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Over Trump Administration's Unlawful New $100K Fee for H-1B Visas

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 states in suing the Trump Administration over its unlawful policy imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions.

• 12/11/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Court Victory Preventing Trump Administration From Unlawfully Cutting Billions in Disaster Preparedness Funding

  Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 20 states today won a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over its unlawful attempt to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, designed to protect communities from natural disasters before they strike.