{"id":76801,"date":"2017-01-13T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=76801"},"modified":"2017-01-11T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T02:40:25","slug":"statement-from-schneiderman-on-volkswagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=76801","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Schneiderman on Volkswagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=70131\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-70131\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg\" alt=\"Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman\" width=\"260\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg 260w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement regarding the settlement announced today between Volkswagen and the federal government. Last year, Attorney General Schneiderman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwMTExLjY4NjE5MDUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDExMS42ODYxOTA1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODkwNjExJmVtYWlsaWQ9bWFyZ29AbTNwbWVkaWEuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1tYXJnb0BtM3BtZWRpYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/ny-ag-schneiderman-massachusetts-ag-healey-maryland-ag-frosh-announce-suits-against\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com:80\/track?type%3Dclick%26enid%3DZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTcwMTExLjY4NjE5MDUxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE3MDExMS42ODYxOTA1MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODkwNjExJmVtYWlsaWQ9bWFyZ29AbTNwbWVkaWEuY29tJnVzZXJpZD1tYXJnb0BtM3BtZWRpYS5jb20mdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY%3D%26%26%26100%26%26%26https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/ny-ag-schneiderman-massachusetts-ag-healey-maryland-ag-frosh-announce-suits-against&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1484274122581000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvDM0ukUKCEf8rFk_ELj5tnMJRZw\">announced a lawsuit against Volkswagen<\/a>\u00a0for selling cars equipped with illegal emissions control cheat devices and violating state environmental laws; that lawsuit is still pending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>\u201cAs described in our complaint, Volkswagen demonstrated a total\u00a0disregard for the law and for the protection of public health and the environment.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>\u201cI am pleased that the company is finally admitting its wrongdoing and taking responsibility for its actions. But it must also take responsibility for the damage done to the environment in states across the country.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman released the following statement regarding the settlement announced today between Volkswagen and the federal government. Last year, Attorney General Schneiderman\u00a0announced a lawsuit against Volkswagen\u00a0for selling cars equipped with illegal emissions control cheat devices and violating state environmental laws; that lawsuit is still pending. \u201cAs described in our complaint, Volkswagen demonstrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}