2020 Press Releases

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• 12/21/2020 AG Tong Joins Multistate Comments Against Trump Administration's Rush to Sell Oil and Gas Leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 13 states in filing comments with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opposing the Trump Administration’s reckless plan to sell oil and gas leases in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before President Trump leaves office, rushing the process with unprecedented haste before the scheduled public comment period has closed.

• 7/31/2020 AG Tong Demands Answers From Eversource Following Rate Hikes

  Office of the Attorney General Serves Formal Interrogatories as Part of PURA Docket

• 6/1/2020 AG Tong and State Police Release PSA Encouraging Residents to Fact Check COVID19 Information

  Attorney General William Tong and the Connecticut State Police today released a Public Service Announcement encouraging residents to fact check the information they receive about the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 5/12/2020 Attorney General Tong Thanks Chinese Ambassador, Connecticut Chinese-Americans for Facilitating Largest Shipment Ever of Personal Protective Equipment to Connecticut

  Attorney General William Tong today thanked Chinese Ambassador Huang Ping, the Consul General in New York, and Fairfield County based Chinese-Americans who worked jointly with the Attorney General and the Governor’s office to help facilitate today’s shipment of personal protective equipment to combat COVID-19.

• 10/21/2020 Attorney General Tong: Department of Justice Purdue Settlement Unacceptable

  Attorney General William Tong released a statement today regarding the criminal settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Purdue Pharma.

• 11/16/2020 Attorney General Tong Statement On Eversource Communications Failure

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding yet another failure in Eversource’s outage reporting communications system. The Office of the Attorney General will address the repeated failures of the automated outage reporting system as part of the open Tropical Storm Isaias docket before the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

• 4/20/2020 Attorney General Tong Statement in Support of the Governor's Executive Orders

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement in support of Governor Lamont’s executive orders.

• 10/21/2020 AG Tong Joins 13 State Coalition Defending Minnesota's Extension Deadline For Mail In Ballots

  Coalition Argues That Extended Deadline Protects Public Health and Vote-By-Mail Participation Amid Pandemic and Post Office Delays

• 11/25/2020 Attorney General Tong Adds Endangered Species Act Claim to Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration's Revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a multistate coalition in amending their complaint challenging the Trump Administration’s unlawful revised regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

• 6/30/2020 Attorney General Tong Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Equal Rights Amendment

  Today, Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 17 states and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief arguing that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) must be accepted as the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• 12/16/2020 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition Reminding White House to Maintain Presidential Records After Trump Administration’s Repeated Disregard for Law

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a multistate coalition of 15 attorneys general from around the nation in calling on the Trump Administration to comply with the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.

• 7/20/2020 AG Tong and Congressman Courtney Applaud Decision in Dredging Case Vital to CT Maritime Economy

  Attorney General William Tong and Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-2) applauded a decision by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Rosado v. Pruitt upholding the lawful selection of the Eastern Long Island Sound Disposal Site for dredged materials.

• 7/2/2020 AG Tong Urges U.S. Department of Education to Rescind Title IX Enforcement Threat in Light of SCOTUS Decision

  Attorney General William Tong today sent a letter urging that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights withdraw its “Letter of Impending Enforcement” targeting the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and several Connecticut municipalities in light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County affirming that federal civil rights law prohibits discrimination against transgender people.

• 10/30/2020 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding PURA Decision Ending Emergency Moratorium On Utility Shut-Offs

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding a decision today by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to end the emergency moratorium on electric, natural gas, and water utility shut-offs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 3/26/2020 Attorney General Tong Joins Multistate Coalition Urging Emergency Relief for Federal Student Loan Borrowers in Response to Coronavirus Pandemic

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 27 attorneys general from around the nation calling on the U.S. Department of Education to take emergency measures to aid federal student loan borrowers during the COVID-19 emergency.