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Company: Toyota Motor Corporation
Current Parent Company: Toyota
Penalty: $34,000,000
Year: 2003
Date: March 7, 2003
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: Clean Air Act and related
Violation Description: The Department of Justice and the Environment Protection Agency announced a settlement with Toyota Motor Corporation covering Clean Air Act violations involving 2.2 million vehicles manufactured between 1996 and 1998. Toyota agreed to extend the emission-control-system warranty on the vehicles, accelerate its compliance with certain new emission control requirements, pay a $500,000 civil penalty and spend $20 million on a supplemental environmental project. The settlement was expected to cost Toyota an estimated $34 million.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Environment and Natural Resources Division
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: Japan
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: motor vehicles
Specific Industry of Current Parent: motor vehicles
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