Cities Should Ban Cheating Diesel Cars Until They're Fixed

Those Volkswagen cars fitted with the cheat device are a health hazard to city residents. Actually all diesel vehicles are. But the fact that those cars are effectively polluting over 40 times the legal limit means we should take immediate action

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March 11, 2016, 7:00 AM PST

By PabloValerio @pabl0valerio

It could be left to cities to force Volkswagen, its subsidiaries, and car dealers to fix the emissions of the 11+ million diesel cars fitted with defeat devices.

It has been almost six months since the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disclosed its findings that Volkswagen had improperly installed a "defeat device" on the engines of diesel cars from 2009 to 2015 to circumvent environmental regulations of NOx emissions.

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