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Justice Department and EPA Reach Clean Air Act Settlement with Advanced Flow Engineering for Selling Defeat Devices
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Advanced Flow Engineering (aFe), an automotive parts manufacturer and distributor based in Corona, Calif., has agreed to stop manufacturing and selling parts for motor vehicles that, when installed, defeat, disable, or override EPA-approved emission controls and harm air quality. The complaint, filed simultaneously with the settlement, alleges that aFe’s manufacture and sale of these parts violate the Clean Air Act. From 2014 to the present, aFe manufactured and/or sold over 63,000 of these parts, widely known as ... (full story)