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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
Kind of surprised this story hasn't generated more discussion.
Cummins is a company that, among other things, makes automotive engines used in a variety of vehicles. In independent testing, the EPA discovered that the Cummins diesel engines in 630,000 Ram trucks made between 2013 and 2019 had included a "defeat device" to let them pass emissions testing when they should not have.
The Justice Department, EPA and state of California all filed suit, and Cummins eventually agreed to a settlement that requires it to both pay for a recall of all the affected vehicles, and to pay US$1.675 billion in civil penalties. That's the largest penalty ever levied under the Clean Air Act in its history -- larger even than the one Volkswagen had to pay over Dieselgate.