States Seek More Flexibility Using VW Settlement Funds To Cut Emissions

States are asking EPA to expand the list of emissions reduction projects that qualify for funding under the $2.7 billion air pollution mitigation fund that Volkswagen (VW) agreed to create under a settlement with the agency over the company's alleged use of “defeat devices” for its vehicles to cheat nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions tests. Environmentalists meanwhile are urging EPA to apply 100 percent retrofit funding not only to publicly owned vehicles as proposed, but also to private vehicles. They also...