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eBay could be fined up to two billion dollars for selling 'rolling coal' defeat devices. [1]

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Date: 2023-10-24  

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against eBay for selling devices and products violating the Clean Air Act. Rolling coal polluters modify diesel engines to emit clouds of black soot to annoy environmentalists. These aftermarket defeat emission control devices are illegal to use or sell as they violate emission standards. The targets of these sociopaths are usually owners of Prius and electric vehicles, joggers, and bicyclists.

According to the DOJ statement, eBay also violates environmental and health laws by selling banned pesticides and other dangerous chemicals, even when ordered to stop by the DOJ in 2020.

The Justice Department filed a complaint against eBay Inc. today for unlawfully selling and distributing hundreds of thousands of products in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA); the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The complaint was filed on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court in Brooklyn. The complaint alleges that eBay sold, offered for sale or caused the sale of more than 343,000 aftermarket defeat devices, which defeat motor vehicle emission controls, a violation of the CAA. Aftermarket defeat devices significantly increase pollution emissions – including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and nonmethane hydrocarbons – that harm public health and impede efforts by the EPA, states, Tribes and local agencies to plan for and attain air quality standards. The complaint also alleges that eBay has violated FIFRA by unlawfully distributing or selling at least 23,000 unregistered, misbranded or restricted-use pesticide products, even in violation of a stop sale order EPA issued to eBay in 2020 and amended in 2021. Examples include a high toxicity insecticide banned in the United States, restricted use pesticides that only certified applicators may apply and products fraudulently claiming to protect users against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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The complaint seeks a court order that eBay’s business practices as an e-commerce retailer violated the CAA, FIFRA and TSCA and requests injunctive relief to enjoin eBay from further violations of these laws, as well as civil penalties for CAA violations.

x Glad no one died pic.twitter.com/yOX7yfoNU0 — Chatur (@ChaturGPT) October 21, 2023

Is it just me, or do others also see an effort by the truck to scare the people in the Subaru by swerving in their lane and losing control of the vehicle on the ice?

x Revenge Of The Prius Nerds: DOJ Sues eBay For Aiding And Abetting 'Rolling Coal'https://t.co/L5PbNC3UJN by @DoktorZoom — Wonkette (@Wonkette) October 17, 2023

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