AccomplishmentsClimate and Environment
Attorney General Tong is leading some of the nation’s most consequential litigation to hold bad actors accountable and defend our country’s environmental protections.
ExxonMobil: In 2020, Attorney General Tong sued ExxonMobil under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, alleging an ongoing, systematic campaign of lies and deception to hide from the public what the company has known for decades— that burning fossil fuels undeniably contributes to climate change. Since 2020, ExxonMobil has tried every possible angle to invalidate the case, and they are failing on every count. But Connecticut continues to aggressively prosecute this case.
PFAS: Attorney General Tong has two active lawsuits against 28 chemical manufacturers responsible for knowingly contaminating Connecticut waters and natural resources and harming public health with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.”
Revolution Wind: When Donald Trump tried to stop work on the nearly-complete Revolution Wind offshore wind project, Attorney General Tong sued and won. Clean, affordable power is now being delivered to the grid and workers are back on the job.
Federal Accountability: Attorney General Tong is at the forefront of actions challenging the Trump Administration’s reckless efforts to undermine and rollback federal regulations and funding to protect our climate and environment. In 2026, he led a coalition of 24 states and 12 counties and cities challenging EPA’s unlawful attempt to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding which determined that greenhouse gas pollution from motor vehicles drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare. He’s fighting to protect vital programs that make solar energy accessible to low-income families, he’s taken numerous legal actions to force regulation of cross-state air pollution that harms Connecticut from other states, and he’s challenged Donald Trump’s fake “energy emergency” manufactured to turbocharge fossil fuel industry profits at the expense of public health and welfare, among other actions.