Net Positive

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Be an Open Book

Building Trust and Transparency

For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

—Luke 8:17

In September 2015, the United States Environmental Protection Agency announced that Volkswagen (VW) had violated the Clean Air Act and cheated on emissions tests by programming its diesel cars to look as if they produced less pollution than California law allowed—much less. In real-world driving conditions, the cars emit up to forty times the legal limit of NO_x,¹ a major pollutant that damages people’s health and contributes to millions of deaths from air pollution annually.² VW sold half a million of these fraudulent cars in the United States and eleven million worldwide. ...