The Biden administration's solicitor general (SG) is urging the Supreme Court to reject calls from Volkswagen (VW) to review and reverse rulings that the Clean Air Act does not preempt state and local governments from pursuing emissions cheating lawsuits against the company even after it settled the same claims with EPA. In a Sept. 27 brief, filed at the high court's request in Volkswagen Group of America Inc., et al. v. Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County, FL, et al., the acting SG Brian Fletcher argues the air act expressly allows state and local governments to advance such claims. His filing comes just days after VW announced settlements with two states over similar claims where the company agreed to pay relatively low monetary penalties, a move that suggests the company's liability from such claims may be lower than previously expected.
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机译：拜登政府的律师（SG）敦促最高法院拒绝来自大众（大众）的呼吁，以审查和逆转裁决，即即使在它落户后，清洁空气法也不是追究国家和地方政府的追求欺骗诉讼。 与EPA相同的索赔。 9月27日简介，在大众院长的大众求职者申请美国公司Inc.，等。 v。佛罗里尔县的环境保护委员会，FL等人，演员SG Brian Fletcher认为，空中法案明确允许州和地方政府推进此类索赔。 他的申请是在大众宣布与两国相似索赔的两国定居点之后的几天，这是一项旨在向该公司免于此类索赔的责任的举措可能低于此前预期的。
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