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Chinese Environmental Group Sues VW Over Diesel Rigging
A Beijing-based environmental group has filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for using secret software to evade emission standards in 11 million of its diesel-powered vehicles.
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A Beijing-based environmental group has filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for using secret software to evade emission standards in 11 million of its diesel-powered vehicles.
The state-controlled China Daily describes the complaint as the first public-interest lawsuit in China related to pollution from a car’s exhaust.
The complaint was filed in Tianjin by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation. The group says it wants to draw attention to the need to more closely monitor vehicle emissions. It asks the court to order VW to apologize for cheating, pay a fine and provide unspecified “environmental remediation.”
The group’s attorney tells China Daily that data supplied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which uncovered the illegal engines in September, will be used to assess the environmental impact of the engines in China.
VW has sold millions of vehicles in the country during the past six years when the doctored diesels were being sold around the world. But the company says fewer than 2,000 imported models were fitted with the cheater diesels.
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