2020 Press Releases

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• 5/7/2020 AG Tong Urges Congress to Strengthen Paycheck Protection Program

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 23 state attorneys general calling for key changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to ensure that funds are distributed fairly and equitably.

• 8/5/2020 AG Tong Calls on Facebook to Take Stronger Steps to Prevent Use of Its Platforms to Spread Hate and Disinformation

  Attorney General William Tong today joined 19 attorneys general from across the United States in calling on Facebook to take additional steps to prevent their site from being used to spread hate and disinformation. The attorneys general also urged Facebook to provide stronger support for users who fall victim to online intimidation and harassment on its platforms.

• 8/14/2020 PURA Grants AG Tong Motion and Will Hold Trial-Like Contested Case and Review of Eversource and UI Storm Response

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority granted his motion to open a “trial-like” proceeding to hold Eversource and United Illuminating accountable for their failed storm response.

• 7/9/2020 Attorney General Tong: No One is Above the Law

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement on this morning's Supreme Court decisions in Trump v. Vance and Trump v. Mazars USA

• 1/17/2020 Connecticut and New York Sue EPA over Continued Disregard of Smog Pollution

  Attorney General William Tong announced New York and Connecticut have filed a new suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for continuing to ignore its legal responsibility under the Clean Air Act to control upwind sources of pollution that create unhealthy ground-level ozone (commonly known as smog) in New York and Connecticut.

• 10/28/2020 Attorney General Tong Multistate Coalition Pushing for Scientific and Medical Research Funding During COVID-19 Pandemic

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and its National Institutes of Health (NIH) urging them to reject recent recommendations made by the Trump Administration’s NIH Human Fetal Tissue Ethics Advisory Board (Board).

• 2/3/2020 Attorney General Tong Announces $118 Million Agreement with Practice Fusion

  Attorney General William Tong announced that Connecticut and other states have reached a $118.6 million civil settlement agreement with Practice Fusion, Inc., resolving allegations that the company accepted payments from specific drug manufacturers in exchange for promoting the manufacturers' drugs to physicians using Practice Fusion's software.

• 12/17/2020 Attorney General Tong Sues to End Google's Illegal Monopoly in Search

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general in suing Google LLC for anticompetitive conduct in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

• 4/24/2020 Attorney General Tong Urges PURA to Consider Equity and Fairness in Energy Investments

  In comments filed with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Office of the Attorney General urged regulators to consider questions of equity and fairness in energy infrastructure investments as our state and nation face unprecedented economic upheaval from the COVID-19 public health crisis.

• 4/24/2020 Attorney General Tong Opposes Plan to Gut Federal Nutrition Standards for School Meals

  Attorney General William Tong joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general opposing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposed rollbacks of nutrition standards for school meals. In comments filed with the USDA, the coalition argues that the proposed rule substantially weakens existing standards for the school meals that tens of millions of children rely on every day and lacks any sound basis in nutrition science.

• 5/1/2020 Attorney General Tong Calls on Federal Government to Protect Seniors’ Homes During Coronavirus Pandemic

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 26 attorneys general urging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to take immediate action to protect seniors with reverse mortgages from foreclosure as result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• 1/22/2020 Connecticut to Join Lawsuit to Prevent Release of 3D-Printed Gun Files

  Attorney General William Tong today announced Connecticut will challenge the Trump Administration’s new effort to allow 3D-printed gun files to be released on the internet, joining a coalition of 20 states led by Washington State in an upcoming federal lawsuit. These files would allow plug-and-play access to 3D-print unregistered, untraceable firearms that can also be very difficult to detect, even with a metal detector. Untraceable firearms are sometimes called “ghost guns.”

• 4/22/2020 AG Tong and DCP Warn Against Pyramid Schemes Proliferating During COVID19 Crisis

  Attorney General William Tong and Consumer Protection Commissioner Michelle H. Seagull today warned consumers to avoid pyramid schemes proliferating on social media during the current COVID-19 public health crisis.

• 11/30/2020 AG Tong Statement on Retirement of Mark Davis

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement after the announcement that WTNH Chief Political Correspondent Mark Davis is retiring.

• 11/13/2020 Attorney General Tong Calls on AG Barr to Reverse New Policy That 'Will Erode the Public's Confidence in the Election'

  Attorney General William Tong today called on U.S. Attorney General William Barr to reverse his abrupt change to a 40-year-old U.S. Department of Justice policy that until this week had kept the department from interfering with election results. In a letter today to Attorney General Barr, Attorney General Tong and a coalition of 23 total attorneys general voiced their “strong objection” to this policy reversal, which they said “will erode the public’s confidence in the election,” and called on him to “reverse your decision promptly.”