Truck engine maker Cummins Inc. has agreed in principle to pay a $1.675 billion fine for installing devices on hundreds of thousands of engines to allow them to emit excess pollution, the largest-ever civil penalty for a Clean Air Act violation, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday [Dec. 22].
The Department said Cummins allegedly installed so-called “defeat devices” to bypass or disable emissions controls such as emission sensors and onboard computers.
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