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PENALTY * USA - Cummins to Pay $2.1 Million to EPA, CARB
Engine maker to recall, retrofit about 400 engines shipped without emissions controls
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Feb 23, 2010: -- Engine maker Cummins will pay $2.1 million for a costly supply chain error... The company agreed to pay a $2.1 million penalty and recall 405 diesel engines built between 1998 and 2006 to settle allegations it violated the Clean Air Act by shipping engines without after-treatment devices needed to control emissions...The penalties and recall are part of agreements Cummins reached yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Justice Department and California Air Resources Board. The settlement was filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington... The engines at the heart of the dispute were shipped to truck makers without necessary after-treatment devices pre-installed, violating the federal anti-pollution law, the Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department said in a complaint... Cummins received certificates of conformity with EPA rules for those engines after testing them with ATDs installed. But the engine maker shipped 578,900 of those engines without ATDs, the complaint alleged, requiring truck makers to buy and install them... (Photo from Cummings-isx15 2010)
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