2026 Press Releases

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• 6/30/2026 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding PURA Decision on Eversource Storm Costs

  Attorney General William Tong today responded to a ruling by the Public Utility Regulatory Authority that approves $933 million in storm costs but rejects the company’s attempt to make Connecticut ratepayers shoulder over $300 million in unjustified interest that accumulated while the case was under review.

• 6/30/2026 Attorney General Statement on Supreme Court Certification in Challenge to Connecticut's Assault Weapon Ban

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Grant v. Higgins, a challenge to Connecticut’s post- Sandy Hook assault weapon ban.

• 6/30/2026 Attorney General Tong Statement on Supreme Court Decision Affirming Birthright Citizenship

  Attorneys General of Connecticut, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey to Hold Media Availability at 1 p.m. TODAY

• 6/29/2026 Attorney General Tong Blocks Illegal Cartel to Drive Down Egg Prices

  Attorney General William Tong and a bipartisan coalition of 17 states today announced a $3.3 million settlement with three of the nation’s largest egg producers, resolving a joint state and federal investigation into a long-running illegal scheme to manipulate egg prices. As part of the settlement, the producers must also deliver 53 million free eggs to food banks and community service organizations nationwide.

• 6/25/2026 Attorney General Tong Secures Another Major Court Victory Over Trump Elections Orders

  Attorney General William Tong today secured his second major court victory in two days over President Donald Trump’s illegal efforts to commandeer state elections.

• 6/24/2026 Attorney General Tong Secures Major Victory, Court Strikes Down Trump’s March 2025 Elections Executive Order

  As part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the coalition’s motion for a permanent injunction and blocked key provisions of Executive Order No. 14248 from taking effect.

• 6/24/2026 Attorney General Tong Welcomes Shopify Ban on All E-Cigarette Sales Following Call for Action

  As part of a bipartisan coalition of 25 attorneys general and the City of New York, Attorney General William Tong today welcomed Shopify’s decision to ban the sale of all vaping products, such as e-cigarettes, through its e-commerce platform. The decision is a direct response to the coalition’s November 2025 letter to Spotify calling for stronger safeguards.

• 6/23/2026 Attorney General Tong Condemns Unprecedented Misuse of Legal System in Trump v. IRS

  Litigation and manufactured “settlement” agreement designed to create a taxpayer funded windfall for President Trump and his family

• 6/23/2026 Attorney General Tong Announces Connecticut Lab and its Owner Pay Over $145K to Settle Allegations of Medicaid Enrollment Fraud

  Attorney General William Tong and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, David X. Sullivan, announced today that Coastal Diagnostics, LLC (Coastal) and its owner, Tricia Conroy (Conroy), have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which they paid $145,720, to resolve allegations they made material misrepresentations to the Connecticut Medicaid program in their Provider Enrollment Application.

• 6/19/2026 Attorney General Tong Statement on the Passing of Rabbi Philip Lazowski

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the passing of Rabbi Philip Lazowski

• 6/18/2026 Attorney General Tong Announces $7 Million Settlement with Property Management Company, LivCor for its Role in Algorithmic Rent Alignment Scheme

  Attorney General William Tong and a bipartisan coalition of eight other attorneys general today announced a $7 million settlement with LivCor, LLC (LivCor), the second property management company to settle in the ongoing antitrust litigation against software company RealPage and landlords who illegally relied on RealPage’s algorithms to inflate rents.

• 6/10/2026 Attorney General Tong Joins Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Trump Administration Mandates on Federal Contractors

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in suing the Trump administration over the addition of new terms to federal contracts that – in the name of purging “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) from federal contracting – impose unclear and confusing requirements on contractors that may depart from antidiscrimination policies that contractors have followed for decades, and threaten severe penalties on federal contractors without adequate notice of what is prohibited.

• 6/9/2026 Attorney General Tong Sues North Haven Business Owner Over Serial Hazardous Waste and Air Pollution Control Violations

  Attorney General William Tong today, on behalf of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), sued Bruno F. Suraci, Jr., his North Haven metal finishing business NikLyn, and related companies for serial violations of Connecticut’s air pollution control regulations.

• 6/8/2026 Attorney General Wins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful $100k Tax for H-1B Visas

  Attorney General William Tong today released the following statement regarding a final ruling from the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts finding unlawful and vacating the Trump Administration’s policy imposing a $100,000 tax payment on new H-1B visa petitions.

• 6/5/2026 Attorney General Tong Statement on Double-Digit Health Insurance Rate Hike Requests

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding double-digit rate hikes sought by Anthem, ConnectiCare and UnitedHealthcare for individual and small group plans covering approximately 220,000 people across Connecticut.