| ▲ | hypeatei 4 hours ago | |
If I'm reading this correctly, it's basically saying "the manufacturers interpretation of the Clean Air Act is wrong" and that's it? How does this move the needle on right to repair at all? Maybe it'll require some work on the manufacturers part to come up with a new excuse but that's it. | ||
| ▲ | shagie 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
OCTOBER 03, 2024 - https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren... > Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Deere & Company (John Deere) accusing the company of undermining its own “right-to-repair” agreements and evading its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act by failing to grant its customers the right to repair their own agricultural equipment. AUGUST 16, 2023 - The EPA finally refutes John Deere, dealership arguments against Right to Repair https://pirg.org/articles/the-epa-finally-refutes-john-deere... > On August 4, after prodding for more than a year by PIRG and our allies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent an on-the-record letter to the National Farmers Union in support of Right to Repair. The letter clearly refutes manufacturers’ and dealers’ accusations that repair access facilitates emissions tampering and therefore violates environmental laws. ---- Note that this started in the previous administration and the EPA was chastising John Deer three years ago on this issue. | ||