▲ 112 ▼ Justice Department Makes It Easier to Bypass Pollution Controls on Pickups (www.nytimes.com) submitted 2 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier. By "dirtier" they mean the exhaust kills people.
[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) Roll that coal! Seriously... worry more about the coal industry than some bullshit consumer stuff. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 19 points 2 months ago In principle we shouldn't worry so much about individual consumer actions, but... By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls. This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 19 points 2 months ago In principle we shouldn't worry so much about individual consumer actions, but... By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls. This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem. permalink fedilink source parent