The EPA later discovered that the trucks emitted comparatively high levels of certain pollutants under a certain extended-speed condition not included in the certification tests the trucks had to pass. I'm not saying this is a good or acceptable thing, but the fact is that the trucks passed every test they were required to pass, and that was the truck makers' only legal obligation. These trucks alerted the EPA to a missing test point in their certification regimen, one which both sides agree needs to be included in future tests. That is the reason for the amicable agreement between the truck makers and the EPA, in which big truck companies will reprogram the emission controls as the trucks come in for engine rebuilds over the coming years. This reflects the fact that a newly tightened requirement is being met, not an old cheat rectified.
Nobody wants dirty air.
This error resulted not from poor research on my part, but due to an error on the part of the Daily's editors. The Daily's editors, however, did not make this correction. As a side note, it is interesting to see what the letter writers did not attack. They did not dispute my claim that Palestinians have been subjected to periodic slaughter, expulsion and persecution by the various Arab countries. They did not dispute my claim that Israeli Palestinians have the highest standard of living of any Palestinians in the Arab world.