LISLE, Ill., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following is a statement from Troy Clarke, Navistar (NAV) president and chief operating officer, about the Final Rule for nonconformance penalties (NCPs) for on-highway heavy heavy-duty diesel engines issued today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
We are pleased that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Final Rule for nonconformance penalties (NCPs) for on-highway heavy heavy-duty diesel engines.
We can now provide our dealers and customers with clarity and certainty as we transition to our clean engine technology and look forward to utilizing the Final Rule as needed.
Implementation of the Final NCP Rule will have no impact on our vehicles previously certified by the EPA under the Interim NCP Rule.
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Navistar International Corporation is a holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates produce International® brand commercial and military trucks, MaxxForce® brand diesel engines, IC Bus" brand school and commercial buses, and Navistar RV brands of recreational vehicles. The company also provides truck and diesel engine service parts. Another affiliate offers financing services. Additional information is available at www.Navistar.com/newsroom.
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To me, it sums up the situation when the new CEO is celebrating EPA's ruling when in fact it is only permission to carry on building poor quality engines that do not conform to EPA regs.
My other bigger concern I would have if I was Nav management is what Cummins and Mack - Volvo's response will be regarding the ruling the Supreme Court layed down in June that brought this all to a head. This new EPA position seems to make a bit of a mockery of the Supreme Court and the original EPA regs established in 1998 that everyone else lived by and conformed too.