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General Motors Corp.

Violations of the Clean Air Act

Date: 11/30/1995 (Date of Settlement)

Misconduct Type: Environment

Enforcement Agency: EPA

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $45,000,000

Disposition: Settlement

Synopsis: On November 30, 1995, General Motors announced that the company would “spend approximately $45 million to settle government charges that it put illegal devices to defeat pollution controls inside nearly a half-million Cadillacs since 1991 that resulted in carbon monoxide emissions of up to three times the legal limit… GM will pay an $11 million fine, more than $25 million to recall and retrofit the polluting vehicles, and up to $8.75 million on projects to offset emissions from these vehicles.”