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A Michigan diesel shop has been ordered to pay a major fine for a scheme to delete emissions controls from hundreds of big rigs.
A trucking company out of Gaylord and several people have been sentenced after federal investigators say they deliberately removed the emissions control systems from semi-trucks in violation of the Clean Air Act.
In what is described as the largest case of its kind, 11 people and 3 companies are accused of disabling emissions controls on semi-trucks.
Eleven men and three companies have been charged in a scheme to alter emissions equipment on diesel trucks, violations of the federal Clean Air Act.