It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.

By “dirtier” they mean the exhaust kills people.

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    In principle we shouldn’t worry so much about individual consumer actions, but…

    By 2020, the most recent numbers available, the E.P.A. estimated that the emissions controls had been removed from more than 550,000 diesel pickup trucks over the prior decade, or roughly 15 percent of all diesel trucks originally certified with those controls.

    This seems to have become an commercial industry at scale, so is a genuine problem.