2025 Press Releases

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• 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.

• 3/13/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration to Stop Dismantling of Department of Education and to Protect Students

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education (ED).

• 3/13/2025 Attorney General Tong and Coalition Issue Joint Statement on Continuing Resolution

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of seven attorneys general in issuing a joint statement in support of efforts in the U.S. Senate to block a partisan continuing resolution (CR).

• 3/12/2025 Attorney General Tong Backs Legislation to Increase Accountability for Gun Industry Bad Actors

  Attorney General William Tong today submitted testimony backing legislation proposed by his office to enable the state, municipalities and private citizens to sue bad actors in the gun industry who fail to take reasonable, commonsense measures to protect us from gun violence.

• 3/11/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Rejection of Petition from 19 Republican Attorneys General Seeking to Block Connecticut ExxonMobil Suit

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition filed by 19 Republican state attorneys general attempting to block cases filed by Connecticut and four other states seeking to hold ExxonMobil accountable for decades of deceiving Connecticut consumers about the climate harms of its products and business.

• 3/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Issues Testimony in Support of Increased Penalties for Illegal Street Takeovers and Reckless Driving

  Attorney General William Tong issued testimony today in support of S.B. 1284, An Act Concerning the Illegal Use of Certain Vehicles and Street Takeovers, which would enable municipalities to seize certain motor vehicles and increase penalties for those engaged in illegal street takeovers.

• 3/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Coalition of State Attorneys General, DOJ Submit Final Proposed Fix to End Google's Search Monopoly

  A coalition of 38 State Attorneys General and the Justice Department today proposed a final package of remedies to end Google’s illegal monopoly over internet search engines and restore competition to the benefit of consumers nationwide.