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Dale Bell

Dale Bell, a Santa Monica filmmaker, was the associate producer of “Woodstock.”

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The exhaust pipes of a VW Diesel car are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany. The chairman of Volkswagen says that diesel exhaust tests involving monkeys were “totally incomprehensible” and the matter must be “investigated fully and unconditionally.” Monday’s comments by Hans Dieter Poetsch, reported by the dpa news agency, come in the wake of a report by the New York Times that a research group funded by auto companies exposed monkeys to diesel exhaust from a late-model Volkswagen, while another group was exposed to fumes from an older Ford pickup. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, file)

Volkswagen and the air Californians breathe

For more than a decade, Volkswagen was at the epicenter of global automakers who were, and are still, lying to customers about how “clean” their cars are.