You can blame diesel tuners for waking the EPA.
Not long afterwards in 2000, the Clinton administration and the EPA issued an updated set of rules related to diesel vehicle emissions. These changes came as the United States moved to adopt ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, which allowed OEMs to begin installing higher-efficiency catalytic converters and other emissions-control devices like urea injection systems. These tools for reducing the harmful chemical emissions from a diesel engine were previously incompatible with traditional diesel fuel.
"As diesel truck and engine original equipment manufacturers introduced emissions controls to comply with new diesel standards phased in between model years 2004 and 2010, EPA became aware of a growing supply of aftermarket devices designed to remove or defeat those emission controls,” an EPA spokesperson toldperhaps downplaying the viral visibility of rolling coal in the Aughts.
The particulate matter that makes up the black smoke you often see belching out of a modified diesel is particularly nasty stuff. The compounds in the soot have been linked to increased risk of lung cancer and respiratory disease, as have other present chemical compounds such as benzene, formaldehyde, and 1,3-butadiene. Not what you want to be breathing in.
H&S Performance was fined $1 million in 2015 for the sale of 114,436 defeat devices intended for use in diesel trucks. As part of that settlement, the entire supply of H&S Performance parts were to be removed from the marketplace. Companies like Pypes Performance Exhaust who previously sold those H&S parts quickly found themselves under the scope of the EPA as well.
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