2022 Press Releases

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• 9/2/2022 Attorney General Tong Statement on Deer Lake

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding news that the Connecticut Yankee Boy Scouts Council has come to an agreement with Pathfinders, Inc. to sell Deer Lake.

• 8/12/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Settlement with U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office to Affirm Legitimacy of Connecticut Pardons

  Attorney General William Tong announced today an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut affirming that the Department of Homeland Security will recognize full and unconditional pardons granted by the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles as waiving deportability, based on a Connecticut conviction, under the Immigration and Nationality Act’s pardon waiver clause.

• 6/27/2022 Attorney General Tong, National Coalition of Attorneys General Issue Joint Statement Reaffirming Commitment to Protecting Access to Abortion Care

  Attorney General William Tong and a national coalition of 21 attorneys general today issued a joint statement reaffirming their commitment to supporting and expanding access to abortion care.

• 10/13/2022 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Bristol Police Officers Killed in Line of Duty

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding two officers from the Bristol Police Department killed in the line of duty, as well as a third officer shot and injured responding to a domestic violence incident.

• 2/28/2022 Attorney General Tong urges Federal Trade Commission to Create Robust Rule Outlawing Impersonation Scams

  Lack of national rule results in millions of consumers targeted each year

• 6/24/2022 Attorney General Tong Statement on Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health overturning Roe v. Wade.

• 3/10/2022 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition in Defense of Federal GHG Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles

  Attorney General Tong this week, as part of a coalition of 23 attorneys general and six cities and counties, filed a motion to intervene in defense of federal greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) standards for light-duty vehicles.

• 4/13/2022 Attorney General Tong Applauds EPA for Plan to Reaffirm Mercury and Air Toxics Standards

  Comments Support EPA’s Plan to Reverse the Trump Administration’s Illegal Finding Against Regulating Toxic Air Pollution from Power Plants

• 4/12/2022 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition Fighting to Protect Family Planning Funding

  Attorney General William Tong has taken legal action to protect access to reproductive health care and restore federal funding for family planning services.

• 8/17/2022 Attorney General Tong Urges Postal Service to Address Deficiencies in Environmental Review Used to Justify Purchase of Gas-Powered Vehicle Fleet

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a multistate coalition in a comment letter supporting the U.S. Postal Service’s notice of intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and purported commitment to purchasing a greater percentage of electric vehicles.

• 8/4/2022 Attorney General Tong Calls for Extension of Public Service Loan Forgiveness Waiver

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 20 states in urging the Biden Administration to extend and expand temporary changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program to provide borrowers with more opportunities to get closer to loan forgiveness faster.

• 12/12/2022 Attorney General Tong Announces Agreements with CVS and Walgreens Delivering $10.7 Billion to Fight Opioid Epidemic

  Attorney General William Tong today announced agreements with CVS and Walgreens to deliver $10.7 billion nationwide to save lives and fight the opioid epidemic. Today’s announcement brings the total recovered from investigations and litigation against the pharmaceutical addiction industry to more than $50 billion. Connecticut will receive about $127 million from these latest settlements, bringing the state’s total recovery to over $600 million, which will be used to support opioid abuse treatment and prevention.

• 6/3/2022 Attorney General Tong Cautions Against Potentially Deceptive Home Warranty Advertisements

  Attorney General William Tong today warned Connecticut homeowners to be on the lookout for potentially deceptive advertisements by home warranty companies.

• 8/1/2022 Attorney General Tong Statement on United Illuminating Rate Request

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding a United Illuminating notice with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority filed today seeking to raise rates as much as 8 percent over three years.

• 11/7/2022 Connecticut Joins Combined $16 Million Multistate Settlements Over 2012 and 2015 Experian Data Breaches

  Attorney General Tong announced today that Connecticut, along with a coalition of other attorneys general, has obtained two multistate settlements with Experian concerning data breaches it experienced in 2012 and 2015 that compromised the personal information of millions of consumers nationwide.