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October 22, 2020

DDM Imports faces $65K EPA penalty

By JOURNAL STAFF

SEATTLE — The Environmental Protection Agency said it settled a federal Clean Air Act case against DDM Imports of Airway Heights for illegally importing from Canada three diesel pickup trucks lacking required emission controls in March.

In a press release, the EPA said the case came to it from U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection officers who inspected the trucks at the U.S.-Canada border in Eastport, Idaho and found that the wires and connections between emissions sensors and controls and the vehicles' onboard diagnostics systems had been cut on two of the trucks. Emission controls devices had been removed from the third truck. The Clean Air Act requires all used vehicles imported to the U.S. be outfitted with the emission controls required at the time of their manufacture.


 
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