Maine AG joins Volkswagen investigation, Verrill Dana files suit
A Portland law firm filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Volkswagen, while Maine’s attorney general announced her office had joined other states and the federal government in an investigation into the German carmaker after Volkswagen admitted to rigging emission tests on some diesel vehicles.
The law firm, Verrill Dana, filed the lawsuit against the Herndon, Va.-based Volkswagen Group of America Inc. on behalf of two Falmouth and Cumberland residents and other Maine residents who own cars installed with the software that helps the cars cheat on emissions tests, the Portland Press Herald reported Thursday.
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills also announced Thursday that her office joined the investigation alongside the federal government and at least 29 other states, the Bangor Daily News reported.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the software that turns off the full emissions control system during normal driving was installed on roughly 482,000 diesel passenger cars sold in the United States since 2008.
Tim Feeley, spokesman for the Maine attorney general’s office, told the BDN that his office is working with the secretary of state to determine how many of the affected cars are registered in the state.
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