Machiasport gets new wheels courtesy of Volkswagen settlement
by Sarah Craighead Dedmon
Students from Machiasport are riding to school in style, due in part to funds received from the state’s settlement with Volkswagen.
In 2017 then-Attorney General Janet Mills won $5.1 million by joining a 10-state coalition that sued the automaker for selling diesel vehicles fitted with “defeat devices” that concealed illegal amounts of emissions.