🚨 President Trump Pardons The Diesel Mechanics Biden’s EPA Went After
President Trump handed out a round of pardons on the Fourth of July that lands right at the kitchen table for truckers, farmers, and small-shop mechanics.
He overturned the convictions of nine people whom the federal government prosecuted under the Clean Air Act for tampering with diesel emissions-control systems.
Most of them were diesel mechanics and tuners. The cases centered on diesel emissions modifications the Biden Justice Department treated as Clean Air Act crimes.
One of the men Trump pardoned is a Wasilla, Alaska mechanic and Air National Guard veteran named MacKenzie “Mac” Spurlock. View the X post: https://t.co/kg8MlvfFE3
Fox News reported that Trump announced six of the pardons on Truth Social and described the men as people prosecuted for repairing vehicles under the previous administration.
Eight of the recipients were diesel mechanics or car tuners accused of selling or installing so-called defeat devices in trucks.
Fox explained why this became more than an abstract regulatory fight. The devices at issue reprogram trucks to bypass federally required emissions controls and suppress diagnostic warnings, while emissions-system failures can also force diesel trucks into limp mode even when the engine itself is still running.
On a highway, a farm, or a remote job site, that turns a mechanical fault into a roadside hazard.
The Spurlock case shows why these prosecutions rubbed so many people the wrong way.
Sen. Dan Sullivan welcomed the full presidential pardon for Spurlock, calling him a Wasilla diesel mechanic, small business owner, and Alaska Air National Guard veteran.
Sullivan said the Biden EPA raided Matanuska Diesel in June 2022 with dozens of armed agents plus personnel from other federal agencies flown in from California, Washington, and Oregon.
Dozens of armed agents. For emissions modifications on diesel trucks, in a case involving a small business owner who wanted to return to the Alaska Air National Guard.
Sullivan pointed to the cold-weather reality that Washington regulators rarely confront. Emissions systems can trigger shutdowns when a fault is detected, and cold weather can make DEF-related components struggle to reach or hold operating temperature.
The technical piece here matters to anyone who actually drives a diesel for a living. Fox noted that limp mode can cut a truck’s speed to as little as 5 mph until the system is restored.
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