Platinum has been considered a precious metal for a couple thousand years now, with folks in both hemispheres using it to show off their conspicuous consumption since about 700 BCE. This is partly ...

(Gray News) - A man was sentenced for his role in transporting thousands of stolen catalytic converters across state lines, laundering money and other related crimes. Tou Sue Vang, 33, was sentenced ...

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 ...

Modern vehicles and the internal combustion engines that power them — well, most of them, that is — have come a long way in recent decades. From inefficient carburetor systems to fuel injection and, ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - It took thieves less than two minutes in Oakland to steal a catalytic converter from a parked car. The crime was captured on surveillance video and shared with KTVU. The video shows ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state lawmakers passed new legislation Tuesday to further combat catalytic converter thefts in the state. House Bill 2153 passed the House unanimously Tuesday following ...

GM has issued an emissions recall for certain 2022 and 2023 Cadillac Escalade units, along with 2022 to 2023 Cadillac Escalade ESV units, that may have an incorrect catalytic converter part installed.

The good news for vehicle owners in New Jersey is that the numbers of catalytic converters stolen in the state last year likely declined for the first time since 2019, perhaps in part due to a law ...

The pollution control devices contain valuable metals, making them a hot commodity for recycling. Some beneficiaries of the thefts look the other way. The innards of a catalytic converter are coated ...

Thefts of catalytic converters surged so aggressively during the pandemic that Congress looked to step in. Now, new data indicates that the tidal wave of thefts is subsiding. Claims data from the ...