COBB Tuning, a leading manufacturer of aftermarket performance products for vehicles, has been slammed with a nearly $3 million fine from the EPA for selling thousands of illegal devices that caused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Volkswagen car is parked in front of a car dealership. Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa Volkswagen has suffered another defeat ...

Emissions defeat devices have been a prime target of the EPA. Recent years saw the federal agency fighting hard, particularly against the scourge of dirty tuned diesels smoking up the air. It now ...

The Department of Justice announced this week that Sinister Mfg. Company, Inc., doing business as Sinister Diesel, pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the emissions control defeat devices it ...

As GM Authority reported back in September 2021, a lawsuit had been filed against General Motors over the suspicion of an emissions defeat device in diesel-powered Chevy Cruze units. Now, after eight ...

A California truck parts company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and defraud the government, and to tampering with the emissions control systems of diesel trucks. The ...

The US Justice Department says Sinister Diesel sold 39,792 defeat devices between 2015 and 2017, and at least 35,960 of those kits disabled exhaust gas recirculation systems. The EPA closed more than ...

If a diesel shop is offering emissions delete services -- illegal under the Clean Air Act -- and is trying to fly under the radar of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, it might not be the best ...

COLUMBUS, Indiana, December 31, 2023 (ENS) – Installing emissions defeat devices on hundreds of thousands of engines over the past decade will cost engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. $1.675 billion to ...

Ever since news surfaced that VW had engaged in massive fraud and criminal misrepresentation of its TDI "Clean Diesel" products, there have been questions about how the company did what it did. It's ...

Yet another tuning shop has been fined as part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ongoing war on diesel emissions defeat devices. At the receiving end of the punishment this time around is ...