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California Plans Separate Probe of VW Diesel Emissions Cheating
California intends to launch its own investigation into Volkswagen AG's admission that it equipped 11 million of its diesel-powered cars with software designed to cheat government emission tests, a source tells Bloomberg News.
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California intends to launch its own investigation into Volkswagen AG's admission that it equipped 11 million of its diesel-powered cars with software designed to cheat government emission tests, a source tells Bloomberg News.
California and at least 26 other states agreed to jointly probe the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement that 482,000 of the affected VW vehicles were sold in the U.S. That investigation will include environmental violations but is focused on such charges as false advertising and consumer fraud.
Bloomberg's source says California wants to conduct a separate probe that applies the state's more stringent environmental standards. VW currently faces nearly 200 owner lawsuits and as much as $18 billion in EPA fines in the U.S. alone.
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