Editing Toyota (section)

===Fines for environmental breaches{{anchor|fines}}===
In 2003, Toyota was fined $34 million for violating the [[United States Clean Air Act]], as 2.2 million vehicles it sold had defective smog-control computers.<ref name="fs-2010-02-11">{{Cite news |last=Mattera |first=Phil |date=February 11, 2010 |title=Toyota totals its corporate social responsibility cred |work=Facing South |location=US |url=https://www.facingsouth.org/2010/02/toyota-totals-its-corporate-social-responsibility-cred.html |access-date=January 15, 2021}}</ref>

In January 2021, Toyota was fined $180 million for delays in reporting emissions-related defects to the [[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA) between 2005 and 2015.<ref name="The New York Times 2021">{{Cite news |last=Tabuchi |first=Hiroko |author-link=Hiroko Tabuchi |date=January 14, 2021 |title=Toyota to Pay a Record Fine for a Decade of Clean Air Act Violations |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/climate/toyota-emissions-fine.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114205251/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/climate/toyota-emissions-fine.html |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |url-access=limited |access-date=January 15, 2021}}</ref><ref name="wsj-2021-01-14">{{Cite news |last=Prang |first=Allison |date=January 14, 2021 |title=Toyota to Pay $180 Million to Settle Complaint Over Delayed Emissions Defect Reports |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|location=US |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-to-pay-180-million-to-settle-complaint-over-delayed-emissions-defect-reports-11610653555 |access-date=January 15, 2021}}</ref><ref name="dn-2021-01-14">{{Cite news |date=January 14, 2021 |title=Toyota to pay $180 million fine for failing to report and fix pollution control defects |agency=[[Associated Press]] |location=US |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/business/autos/2021/01/14/toyota-to-pay-180-million-fine-for-failing-to-fix-pollution-control-defects/ |access-date=January 15, 2021 |via=Dallas News}}</ref> The acting U.S. attorney said that the delays "likely led to delayed or avoided emissions-related recalls", although Toyota stated that despite the delays in reporting the issues to the EPA, it had notified customers and fixed the cars with the emissions defects.<ref name="dn-2021-01-14" /> At the time, this was the biggest civil penalty ever levied for violating the EPA's emission reporting requirements.<ref name="The New York Times 2021" /><ref name="wsj-2021-01-14" />