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JACKSON, Miss. – Three Mississippi companies hit united to pay $2 meg to resolve claims they illicitly imported and oversubscribed more than 78,000 small engines made in China.

The engines did not meet federal expose pollution standards, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice said weekday in a joint programme release.

The government's causa was filed in 2009 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against PowerTrain Inc., Wood Sales Co. Inc., and Tool Mart Inc., every supported in Golden, a north Mississippi municipality near the Muskogean land line.

The polity contended the engines were oversubscribed crossways the country online and finished telemarketing. EPA estimated the 78,000 engines had contributed to immoderateness emissions of more than 150 heaps of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides and more than 5,000 heaps of carbon monoxide.

The upset said the "non-road" engines were imported and oversubscribed by the companies from September 2002 finished at small May 2007. The engines emit carbon monoxide, vaporific organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, that advance to smog.

Under the settlement filed in federal suite Monday, PowerTrain module compel a plan to secure that the engines and equipment they import in the future comply with Clean Air Act restrictive requirements.

Ignacia S. Moreno, supporter professional generalized for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, said PowerTrain module also compel projects to equilibrize the immoderateness pollution from these engines.

Moreno said in digit of the equilibrize projects, which is estimated to cost $600,000, PowerTrain module wage subsidies for consumers to change older, dirtier wood stoves with efficient, EPA-certified wood stoves.

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