2025 Press Releases

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• 3/26/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision Upholding Federal Ghost Gun Regulations

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the 7-2 decision issued today by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bondi v. Vanderstock upholding federal ghost gun regulations.

• 3/26/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Legal Professionals to Stand Strong in the Face of Bullying and Political Retribution

  Attorney General William Tong, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, issued an open letter to the legal community warning of illegal attempts by the Trump administration to deter lawyers from challenging the administration’s actions or representing clients disfavored by the administration. The attorneys general call on the legal community to resist attempts at bullying or retribution and uphold the values of their profession.

• 3/26/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Lawless Trump Election Order

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement in response to the executive order issued last night by President Donald Trump seeking to illegally defund states who do not comply with his list of voter suppression measures.

• 3/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Comcast and YES to Reach Agreement Before Opening Day

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement urging Comcast and the Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (YES) to reach an agreement and prevent a shutoff before MLB Opening Day on Thursday.

• 3/24/2025 Attorney General Tong Issues Consumer Alert Regarding 23andMe Bankruptcy

  Attorney General William Tong today issued a consumer alert regarding 23andMe’s recent bankruptcy filing.

• 3/24/2025 Office of the Attorney General Testimony Supporting Legislation to Protect Access to Emergency Medical Treatment

  The Office of the Attorney General's Special Co-Counsel for Reproductive Rights today submitted testimony in support of legislation to protect access to emergency medical treatment, as well protections for providers offering medically accurate and relevant health care information.

• 3/24/2025 Office of the Attorney General Submits Testimony Supporting Shield Law Reforms

  The Office of the Attorney General's Special Co-Counsel for Reproductive Rights today submitted testimony in support of legislation to reform Connecticut’s reproductive rights “shield law” to further protect providers and patients of reproductive and gender-affirming health care in Connecticut.

• 3/20/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Trump Executive Order Dismantling Department of Education

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the executive order issued by President Donald Trump today ordering the dismantling of the Department of Education.

• 3/20/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Salvatore Carabetta for Illegal Encroachment on State Park

  Attorney General William Tong has filed an enforcement action against Salvatore Carabetta and his Meriden Homestead II and Meriden Homestead III LLCs for the egregious illegal encroachment on Lamentation Mountain State Park property.

• 3/19/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Settlement with Soundview Transportation Over Largest Oil Spill in Connecticut History

  Attorney General William Tong announced today a series of penalties and payments totaling $350,000 to be paid by Soundview Transportation following the November 2022 oil tanker accident in Norfolk, resulting in the largest gasoline spill in Connecticut history. In addition to the penalties, Soundview is fully responsible for the ongoing remediation and clean-up of the site, costing millions of dollars.

• 3/18/2025 Attorney General Tong Opposes Changes to New Passport Application Rule Harming Transgender People

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to the U.S. Department of State opposing proposed changes to the passport application process that would prevent transgender people from obtaining a passport that matches their gender identity.

• 3/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Vows to Fight for Connecticut Clean Air, Clean Water and Climate as Trump Administration Threatens to Gut Environmental Regulations

  Attorney General William Tong today promised to fight for Connecticut clean air, clean water and climate following the announcement by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin that his agency will gut regulations protecting Americans from airborne toxins, smog, dirty power plants and more.

• 3/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Court Decision Upholding $2 Million Penalty for United Illuminating Over Failure to Clean-up English Station

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding a Superior Court decision issued Thursday upholding the $2 million annual penalty levied by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority at the urging of Attorney General Tong against United Illuminating for the company’s longstanding failure to remediate contamination at the defunct English Station power plant in New Haven.

• 3/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Temporary Block on Mass Firings of Federal Probationary Employees and Gets Fired Employees Their Jobs Back

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after a federal judge in the United States District Court for Maryland issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) for 18 federal agencies, ordering them to stop the illegal mass layoffs of federal probationary employees and to reinstate fired employees by 1:00pm on Monday, March 17, 2025.

• 3/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Department of Energy to Move Forward with Energy Efficiency Standards

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of eight attorneys general and the City of New York today, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, in submitting two comment letters to the United States Department of Energy (DOE) urging the department to allow energy efficiency standards for gas-fired instantaneous water heaters and walk-in coolers and freezers to take effect.