“Rolling coal” by diesel trucks may cost online marketeer eBay $1.9 billion, according to a U.S. Justice Department filing last Wednesday (Sept. 27). The DOJ complaint in federal court in Brooklyn was based on information from the Environmental Protection Agency. The complaint included other eBay merchandise EPA targeted as illegal.
According to DOJ, eBay sold “hundreds of thousands of products in violation of the Clean Air Act (CAA); the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).”
Prominent among the items EPA and DOJ highlighted were sales of more than 343,000 “engine control units” (ECUs), aftermarket equipment that allows owners of diesel vehicles to defeat pollution control equipment on the vehicles.