Press & Media Resources.
Statistics, brand assets, story angles, and a direct press contact for journalists, podcasters, and creators covering Clean Air Act enforcement against the performance automotive aftermarket. Use anything here freely with attribution.
Key statistics
Sourced, verifiable, copy-paste ready.
Every figure below is extracted from the U.S. EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance public records, fiscal years 2021 through 2025. Underlying consent decrees and settlement summaries are linked from the case database at legaltuning.com/enforcement.
Citation format suggestion: “[stat] — Legal Tuning Enforcement Database, sourced from U.S. EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance public records”. The database itself is publicly accessible at legaltuning.com/enforcement.
Story angles
Real angles your audience would read or watch.
Each of the angles below is supported by specific entries in the public enforcement database. We are happy to provide background, defendant lists, settlement amounts, statutory citations, and consent decree links for any of these on request.
- 01Why the EPA's Mobile Source enforcement program is targeting performance shops
- 02How a Toyota subsidiary (Hino Motors) produced the largest mobile-source civil penalty in U.S. history
- 03The 17 Section 177 states and what their adoption of California standards means for aftermarket retailers
- 04PPEI / Kory Willis: how a 2022 felony plea reshaped enforcement against ECU tune sellers
- 05What the median EPA settlement against an aftermarket shop actually costs ($55,000) and how that compares to the worst cases ($10.4M)
- 06Member Defense, retained counsel, and the first 48 hours after an EPA contact letter
- 07Catless exhaust + test pipe enforcement: Borla, Allied Exhaust, and what the documented shops did differently
Brand assets
Logo, OG image, and the visual identity.
Use the assets below for editorial, podcast, video, or print coverage. Please do not modify the logo or the wordmark. Do not use the assets in any context that would imply endorsement of a specific product, vehicle, or shop without prior written consent.
Wordmark — primary
The Legal Tuning wordmark, in our brand sky-blue accent on a dark background. Use this for any reference to the brand. Vector SVG and high-resolution PNG.
Download OG image (PNG, 1200×630)
Statutory citation block
The federal citations Legal Tuning is built on top of. Use as visual reference in any video or article covering the regulatory framework.
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Founder
Chris Oday — Founder, Legal Tuning.
Chris Oday is the founder of Legal Tuning. His background is in tax and accounting compliance work for small businesses (OHG Tax). Legal Tuning was launched after Chris helped a friend — the owner of an aftermarket performance shop — respond to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency contact. Recognizing that the documented compliance posture retained counsel needs in the first hours of a regulatory matter is not on file at most performance shops, Chris built the fifteen-document compliance program now issued to Legal Tuning member shops nationwide.
Available for interviews and quotes on Clean Air Act enforcement, performance aftermarket compliance, and the operational documentation gap most shops carry. Email hello@legaltuning.com with subject line “Press inquiry” for fastest response.
Press contact
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Recent coverage
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