United States v. Kohler Co.

Under a partial consent decree, a settling CAA defendant that manufactured and sold millions of small, non-road, non-handheld, spark-ignition engines that did not conform to the certification applications the defendant submitted covering the engines must pay a $20 million civil penalty, forfeit over three million kilograms of hydrocarbon plus nitrogen oxide emission credits, implement an emissions testing validation plan, conduct annual audits, implement corporate governance reforms, and conduct compliance training of its employees; under a separate consent decree with the State of California, the defendant must pay civil penalties and perform injunctive relief for violations of the state's evaporative emissions standards.

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