News Digest Item
07 Mar 2017

“VW emissions scam presumably no isolated case”

German Bundestag

German Volkswagen is presumably not the only company to cheat on its emissions data - and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) of US state California will examine other manufacturers, said CARB chairwoman Mary Nichols in a hearing before the German Bundestag’s emissions scandal inquiry committee. VW was not very cooperative during the investigations, Nichols told the federal parliament committee.

Find the press release in German here.

For background read the CLEW factsheet Dieselgate forces VW to embrace green mobility.

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