Move follows report carmaker used animals to demonstrate diesel emissions technologyThe carmaker Volkswagen has suspended its head of external relations and sustainability after admitting that he had known approximately experiments in which monkeys were locked in small chambers and exposed to diesel exhaust.
Thomas Steg,a former government spokesman who worked for German chancellor Angela Merkel and her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, and is the first person to be relieved of his duties as VW said it was “drawing the consequences” of the scandal,which has rocked both the government and industry. Related: VW condemned for testing diesel fumes on humans and monkeys Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com