The Environmental Protection Agency levied $10 million in fines against two suburban Detroit companies that produced and installed “defeat devices” meant to help boost the performance of diesel-powered vehicles and also resulted in substantial increases in smoky emissions. Get the story at TheDetroitBureau.com.
Flo-Pro Performance Exhaust and its defunct distributor Thunder Diesel & Performance reportedly sold 100,000 diesel emissions defeat devices annually in the USA.
The founder of Spartan Diesel Technologies sentenced to one year behind bars for selling emission defeat devices. That's on top of two million-dollar fines.