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Environmental group sues VW for emission cheating
December 16, 2015
Environmental group sues VW for emission cheating
China.Org
Wednesday 16 December 2015
A domestic environmental group has filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen over the company’s cheating on emissions readings.
It is the first public-interest lawsuit in China related to pollution from automobile exhaust. The group said it hopes to attract attention to the need to supervise motor vehicle exhaust.
China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, an NGO based in Beijing, said it entered the case against the German auto giant because it “produced the problematic vehicles for the pursuit of higher profits and circumvented Chinese laws, which has worsened the air pollution and affected public health and rights”.
“Such behavior has violated the law on product quality, environmental protection and tort liability. So we filed the case,” Wang Wenyong, a lawyer for the group, said on Monday.
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