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Cummins engine-maker to pay record air pollution fine
Federal and California officials say the company illegally installed devices on about one million pickup trucks.
One of the world’s largest engine manufacturers has agreed to pay a record-breaking fine and other costs totaling $2 billion after facing charges that about one million pickup trucks were illegally equipped with devices circumventing California and national emission standards. Because of the illegal devices installed on the truck engines, tons of nitrogen oxides — a main ingredient of smog and fine particle pollution — were spewed into the air, Environmental Protection Agency officials said. Before now, the largest civil penalty in a Clean Air Act case was $ 1.45 billion paid by Volkswagen, which installed illegal defeat devices on 590,000 model year 2009 to 2016 diesel cars.
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