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Update (January 30): Following the reports of EUGT-funded fume tests, Volkswagen has suspended its head of external relations and sustainability, Thomas Steg, according to a statement released by the company today. “We are currently in the process of investigating the work of the EUGT, which was dissolved in 2017, and drawing all the necessary consequences,” Matthias Müller, Volkswagen’s CEO, says in the press release. “Mr. Steg has declared that he will assume full responsibility. I respect his decision.”
In 2014, scientists in a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico, exposed 10 monkeys in airtight chambers to fumes from diesel-fueled cars while the animals watched cartoons, The New York Times reported last week (January 25). This experiment, which was part of an effort to prove that newer ...
