the us environmental protection agency epa sign is seen on the podium at epa headquarters in washington us july 11 2018 reutersting shen by david shepardson washington us environmental protection agency chief andrew wheeler said on tuesday the trump administration has more actions in the works related to excess vehicle emissions after imposing major penalties on automakers in january fiat chrysler automobiles nv agreed to an 800 million settlement to resolve claims by the us justice department and the state of california that it used illegal software to produce false results on dieselemissions tests after a bringing a recordsetting case against volkswagen ag advt wheeler said epa career staff in the fiat chrysler case worked diligently after the company assured the agency that it did not use defeat devices we will continue to do work like that and we have had other enforcement actions against other auto companies we are moving forward we have other cases in the works wheeler told a us house appropriations committee panel tuesday when people are not playing by the rules and they are creating more pollution we will catch them we will hold them accountable he added the justice department said in january the fiat chrysler settlement does not resolve an ongoing criminal investigation into the italianamerican automakers conductfiat chrysler to recall 862520 us vehicles over emissions standardsmajority of air pollution deaths in india linked to diesel vehicle emissions studyinternational symposium on vehicle inspection certification focused on safety and emission a federal judge in san francisco has set a may 3 hearing to grant final approval to the civil settlement volkswagen admitted in september 2015 that it intentionally evaded emissions rules and agreed to pay more than 25 billion in the united states to owners regulators states and dealers including spending as much as 15 billion to buy back about 500000 polluting us vehicles german auto supplier robert bosch gmbh which provided the emissions control software for the vw and fiat chrysler vehicles also agreed to pay 275 million to resolve claims from fiat chrysler diesel owners in january us regulators are also investigating daimler ag for alleged excess emissions in mercedesbenz diesel vehicles but the justice department and epa have declined to comment on the status of the probe advt daimler declined to comment but has previously acknowledged it faces investigations in germany and the united states in february ford motor co said it hired outside experts to investigate its vehicle fuel economy and testing procedures after employees raised concerns the automaker added that it did not know whether it would have to correct data provided to regulators or consumers ford says the issues do not involve the use of socalled defeat devices hardware and software designed deliberately to deceive government emissions tests ford has been in talks with the epa and shared significant data since february including communications from employees reuters published on apr 3 2019 at 1107 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first