{"id":179133,"date":"2021-12-13T00:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=179133"},"modified":"2021-12-13T00:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:55:45","slug":"settlement-with-volkswagen-on-emissions-nets-illinois-3-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/13\/settlement-with-volkswagen-on-emissions-nets-illinois-3-6m\/","title":{"rendered":"Settlement with Volkswagen on emissions nets Illinois $3.6M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SPRINGFIELD, Ill. , Dec 12 (AP) \u2014 Illinois officials have agreed to a $3.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America for tampering with vehicle emissions controls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agreement reached late last week requires Volkswagen to pay $300 for each of the nearly 12,000 affected vehicles in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case was a separate action by the Illinois attorney general\u2019s office after Volkswagen signed a consent decree with the Justice Department in October 2016. Volkswagen had admitted a year earlier that it had installed elaborate software in diesel car models which suspended pollution controls except when the vehicles underwent emissions testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Illinois was awarded $108 million in that settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attorney general lawsuit in November 2016 alleged that Volkswagen had implemented a recall on 11,974 Illinois vehicles in 2014 for the purpose of enhancing the fraudulent emissions-control devices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The $300-per-car agreement brings the total award to $3.592 million, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Automobiles that were affected have 2.0-liter or 3.0-liter Volkswagen or Audi engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Ill. , Dec 12 (AP) \u2014 Illinois officials have agreed to a $3.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America for tampering with vehicle emissions controls. The agreement reached late last week requires Volkswagen to pay $300 for each of the nearly 12,000 affected vehicles in Illinois. The case was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-179133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}