Engine maker Cummins to repair, replace 600,000 Ram trucks in $2 billion emissions cheating scandal

The Department of Justice launched new main points of a agreement with engine producer Cummins Inc. Wednesday that features a obligatory recall of 600,000 Ram trucks, and that Cummins treatment environmental injury it led to when it illegally put in emissions regulate tool in a number of thousand automobiles, skirting emissions trying out.

Cummins is accused of circumventing emissions trying out thru gadgets that may bypass or defeat emissions controls. The engine producer can pay a $1.675 billion civil penalty to settle claims – prior to now introduced in December and the biggest ever secured below the Clean Air Act – in addition to $325 million on therapies.

That brings Cummins’ overall penalty for the violations to greater than $2 billion, consistent with Wednesday’s announcement, which officers from the U.S. Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board and the California Attorney General known as “landmark” in a choice with journalists Wednesday.

“Let’s this settlement be a lesson: We won’t let greedy corporations cheat their way to success and run over the health and wellbeing of consumers and our environment along the way,” California AG Rob Bonta mentioned.

Over the process a decade, loads of 1000’s of Ram 2500 and 3500 pickup trucks – manufactured by way of Stellantis – have been provided with Cummins diesel engines that included the bypassing engine regulate tool. This comprises 630,000 put in with unlawful defeat gadgets and 330,000 provided with undisclosed auxiliary emission regulate gadgets.

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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher contributed.

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