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Toyota to pay $180M penalty for Clean Air Act reporting violations

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During the period of noncompliance, Toyota managers and staff in Japan knew that Toyota was no longer attempting to determine whether it was aware of 25 instances of the same emission-related defect in a model year—the threshold requirement for filing an EDIR. At a May 2002 meeting with EPA, Toyota presented its revised process.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions. “It has implications for us.

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