Platinum, a metal that helps craft aesthetically pleasing jewelry, also finds use in a car's exhaust for entirely non-aesthetic reasons. The catalytic converter is required on nearly every car to ...

Thanks to the Clean Air Act of 1970, all cars sold in the US after 1975 must have catalytic converters (cats) installed on them. That means that if you drive a relatively modern car, it should have ...

Car theft is a real issue for the owners. In 2020, the number of vehicles stolen was up 11.8 percent from 724,872 in 2019. Whenever there is something of value, there are always perpetrators. But ...

Cars are major greenhouse gas emitters. Every year, vehicles worldwide pump out millions of tons of CO2, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and a range of other gasses that contribute to global warming ...

In 2022, thefts nationwide were 540% higher than all of 2020, public data company BeenVerified found. Thieves are slipping under cars to swipe catalytic converters, those pollution-control gadgets ...

St. Paul, Minnesota – You probably don’t put too much thought into what’s underneath your car unless you are a car mechanic or you’re a criminal. Catalytic converter theft is accelerating this year.

VICTIM. DAVID, MICHELANGELO’S DAVID. FOR THIS LANCASTER COUNTY COUPLE, THEIR RECENT TO EUROPE WAS THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. WE WENT TO ITALY FOR ABOUT TEN DAYS WHEN THEY RETURNED TO THE INTERNATIONAL ...

A catalytic converter is an integral part of a car’s overall exhaust system. However, while they are normally something a car owner would never think about, thefts of catalytic converters spiked to ...