WASHINGTON — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring will investigate ways Volkswagen owners can be compensated after the company admitted it rigged emissions testing results.
Volkswagen has admitted to fixing it so its diesel vehicles would pass emissions tests. The secret software thwarted diesel smog tests on nearly a half million vehicles in the U.S.
But during ordinary use, the vehicles would generate as much as 40 times the pollution levels allowed under the Clean Air Act.
Maryland and Virginia are among 28 other states participating in the probe of the German carmaker.
Herring said in statement that he will ensure that all Virginia consumers impacted will receive what they are owed.
The Environmental Protection Agency has accused VW of installing a so-called “defeat device” to foil emissions inspections in 482,000 cars sold in the U.S. VW later acknowledged that similar software exists in 11 million diesel cars worldwide.
WTOP’s Kate Ryan and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
