Sentences with phrase «cheating emissions standards»

The German automaker agreed to spend billions of dollars to settle allegations of cheating emissions standards.

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Since this case emerged, Hagens Berman has been on the forefront of this highly specialized realm of law, relying on our legal team's steadfast and intensive investigative skills to unearth additional emissions - cheating schemes by other automakers, staying one step ahead of government regulators in our pursuit of car manufacturers that have violated emissions standards, regulations and consumer confidence.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Winterkorn was one of six defendants charged in an alleged scheme where they knew VW vehicles did not meet U.S. emissions standards and used software to cheat the U.S. testing process.

«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

Pressure to meet tightening standards led the carmaker to cheat on emissions tests.

(Of its emissions - cheating cars — that were sold in the U.S. despite not meeting pollution standards.)

We were originally slated to get oil - burning versions of the C - Class sedan and GLS - Class SUV, but both were nixed as a result of the tougher certification standards, following widespread emissions cheating (thanks, Volkswagen Group!).