Saturday, August 20, 2016

Taking a Break from Trying to Give the Entire Navajo Nation Cancer, the EPA Goes After Motorcycles and Guitars

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Justice Department said Thursday that Harley-Davidson sold about 340,000 aftermarket devices under the “Screamin’ Eagle” brand over the last eight years that illegally let motorcycle owners tune their vehicles in a way that made them emit more pollutants than allowed. 

 The company, which isn’t admitting to the government’s accusations, will pay a $12 million fine, spend $3 million to mitigate air pollution and offer to buy back and destroy devices officials say are illegal.

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The Great Gibson Guitar Raid: Months Later, Still No Charges Filed

For more about our "friends" at the EPA, check out these.

By the way, if you're wondering why Ghostbusters needed to be re-made in any form, although no one really wanted it to be, it may be helpful to recall that the villain in the original film was an EPA agent.  We can't have that, can we?  So, our friends in Hollywood gave the government a hand and re-made the film as a muddle with a fantasy villain.  Problem solved.