An Oregon transportation company and its owner are facing the music of bypassing clean air laws. Reports confirm that Clancy Logistics, Inc., and Timothy Curtis Clancy, its owner, have been sentenced to probation and slapped with hefty fines for tampering with pollution monitoring devices, a violation of the Clean Air Act.
Based on the significantly less-than-stellar actions taken between October 2019 and July 2023, these truck-tuning efforts were orchestrated by Clancy himself, ensuring that at least thirteen diesel semi-trailer trucks would evade emissions detection. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon outlined how these vehicles were illegally modified to no longer sniff out their pollution.
On the legal front, Clancy pleaded guilty last September to one count of tampering with a monitoring device after being charged with criminal information with two counts of Clean Air Act tampering. As a result, both he and his company have been placed on three years' probation and ordered to pay a joint fine of $101,510.
The Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division spearheaded the investigation into these environmental wrongdoings, culminating with prosecution by the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, Andrew Ho, and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Environmental Protection Agency, Gwendolyn Russell. Working under the trucks, employees were directed to remove the emissions control equipment, leading to Clancy Logistics operating the altered vehicles knowingly.
