The Securities and Exchanged Commission (SEC) popped BMW with an $18 million fine recently. The SEC announced that the charges against BMW AG and two of its US subsidiaries were for sharing both inaccurate and misleading information about BMW’s retail sales volume…
Alves-Pereira tried ad hominems, conspiracy ideation, appeals to false authority, fright tactics, bold-faced reversals, mirrored accusations, and more in her attempt to defend her pet fake disease.
Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt — the head of the company’s environmental and engineering office (overseeing emissions issues) in Auburn Hills, Michigan, until early 2015 — has been sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined $400,000 for his part in defrauding US regulators regarding the company’s diesel vehicle emissions.
Air quality inspectors in China found “problems” at over 3,000 companies during the first 3 months of 2017, according to the country’s Environment Minister. These problems included: the widespread falsification of data, a failure to implement air pollution control measures strictly, various violations, and, in some instances, employees working to stop inspectors from making required checks.
Newly unsealed documents relating to a lawsuit against Monsanto have revealed that the US EPA official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto’s Roundup product stated in a conversation with a company exec that he would try to get an investigation started by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) “killed.”
And … that he “should get a medal” for doing so.
New research from the University of Heidelberg (commissioned by the German television station ZDF) has seemingly confirmed earlier assertions by the German trade group Camion Pro that a significant fraction of lorries operating in Eastern Europe are utilizing so-called “AdBlue killers” to circumvent the use of the actual NOx-reducing fluid AdBlue while still qualifying for the various tax and toll reductions that vehicles using AdBlue qualify for.
The US Department of Justice has sentenced the two Floridians behind a $46 million biodiesel fraud scheme, Thomas Davanzo and Robert Fedyna, to more than a decade in prison each, according to recent reports.
This post was originally published on the NRDC Staff Blog. By Max Baumhefner and Cecilia Springer Uncovering a fraud is uniquely satisfying, which is perhaps why news outlets continue to provide electric car deniers with a platform to proclaim they aren’t as green as they appear. But close examination reveals … [continued]
Japan’s Consumer Agency has published information relating to 11 separate air conditioner manufacturing companies, regarding inappropriate energy usage rate displays. The eleven companies (who remain unnamed as of yet) conducted A/C capacity tests and calculated energy use to display to the consumer, who is generally unaware of how much air flows through the unit or how much energy is used.
