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The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that they reached a settlement with Advanced Flow Engineering under which the company agreed to pay a $250,000 penalty and halt its manufacturing and sales of “defeat devices.”
These devices reportedly override emission controls that are approved through the EPA, causing a decreased air quality. The EPA alleged in a complaint filed on Tuesday, after the settlement was reached, that the defendants actions violated the Clean Air Act. According to the plaintiff, Advanced Flow Engineering has manufactured and sold over 63,000 defeat devices since 2014.
The $250,000 fine is reportedly based on the defendant’s “financial situation.” In another EPA defeat devices settlement with a similar amount of illegal products sold, the settlement amount was $3 million, in this case the defendants included multiple companies. A settlement in another matter, how
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The image could be on a wall in a modern art gallery or a piece of mosaic pulled from Pompeii.
Mustard-brown, it could pass as an artistic interpretation of Australia’s arid inland where dry river beds hint at better times.
But the nitrate piece of film, held by the National Archives, is a piece of this nation’s disintegrating history.
The disintegrating image of Italian prisoner-of-war Leo Antonini. He served out the war in a West Australian camp. His image is one of potentially thousands slowly disintegrating as the Archives battles for more funding.
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