Gorilla Tuning of Rexburg, Idaho, pleads guilty to criminal conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act, will pay $1 million in criminal fines, while its owner faces up to two years in jail

Good on the EPA.

These shops sell tunes that marginally increase power, but specifically increase emissions by design so small minded "diesel bros" can "roll coal" as some magical right wing middle finger to environmentalists, hybrids, and electric cars (there are entire channels dedicated to getting next to Priuses (Priuii?), Teslas, and bicyclists just to floor it and belch black smoke next to them). When challenged (online, because in person they are big talking cowards as usual) they'll defend the practice saying it's how you make the most power or that emissions equipment is unreliable.
Which, of course, doesn't hold water as the most well known man in diesel tuning Gale Banks produces more power/performance, more reliably, all without belching a single black cloud of unburned fuel and has forgotten more about diesel tuning than any of these fuckwits collectively will ever have.

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According to the EPA, Gorilla Tuning sold tens of thousands of tuning devices

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The EPA reports that in trucks with deleted emissions controls, rates of harmful particulates like NOx increase by 310 times, carbon monoxide by 120 times, and non-methane hydrocarbons increase by 1,400 times over fully compliant vehicles.

It seems that for some classes of pollutants, this single shop could have been responsible for the equivalent emissions of millions to tens of millions of vehicles being put on the road?

That’s pretty obscene. I hope there are good sales records for those tens of thousands of sold devices and that they are being followed up on as well.

[The EPA] estimates that around 15 percent of diesel trucks on U.S. roads have had their emissions control devices illegally deleted.

It’s absolutely wild to me that so many people would spend so much time, effort, and money on a marginal performance benefit that makes the car impossible to resell and that poisons the air. Really shows where their priorities lie, and how much they value their own neighbors. Personal satisfaction above all else even when the satisfaction comes from hurting everyone around them (and even themselves, too), and not even an actual material benefit.

I live in northeastern Washington, these goddamn rubes are everywhere. Their ignorance is actually a point of pride to them, if not a full on virtue. It's these asshats that spend their spare time (which is apparently in abundance) blocking EV charge stations, and obnoxiously choke down their double decker cheese burger with extra bacon if they happen to be in earshot of anyone eating a fucking salad. Every single one of these trucks has an FJB, or "Let's go Brandon" decal on them. I don't know if MTFU skull (this means "Man The Fuck Up" for those unfamiliar) stickers are popular outside of the Pacific Northwest, but those are typically present as well.

Just, for what? To what end? To irritate forward thinking people? Great, mission accomplished... But, they can never even consider that they're simply making the world a worse place. I don't get it man. Why make things worse intentionally? In all the vitriol and division they further separate people. Their actions cannot help the world in any way whatsoever. Their actions are always a net negative. Awesome. 😕

Thank you for listening to my Tuesday morning gripe.

Be warned, the comments section on that article is an absolute dumpster fire. I don't recommend it.

Looking at the damages to the environment, does $1M even recoup their sales? Looking at their website and Facebook, there's no prices for any of their services. I'm assuming they do more in lift installs and overpriced light kits but $1M for the amount of NOx is just bewildering.