Security News in Brief: Justice Department and EPA Reach Clean Air Act Settlement with Gear Box Z for Selling Defeat Devices

Source: United States Department of Justice News

Arizona-based Gear Box Z (GBZ) has agreed to stop manufacturing and selling aftermarket automotive products widely known as “defeat devices,” that, when installed, bypass, defeat or render inoperative Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-certified emission controls on motor vehicles thereby increasing emissions and harming air quality.