Originally published at: The prosecution and the pardon that ended the diesel wars - FreightWaves
On July 3, 2026, President Trump pardoned the same people his prior administration prosecuted. Nearly a dozen people were convicted under the Clean Air Act for tampering with diesel emissions, months after the Justice Department stopped prosecuting diesel cases entirely. The technology is still bolted to every truck on the road, and nobody in Washington wants to discuss the “what now” of who pays for it.