Volkswagen’s emissions cheating caused an appalling amount of extra pollution

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By Karl MathiesenSep 23, 2015, 7:04 pm194 pts
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Volkswagen’s rigging of emissions tests for 11 million cars means they may be responsible for nearly 1 million tons of air pollution every year, roughly the same as the U.K.’s combined…

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