There were 460 cat converter thefts in Berkeley that year, with about 300 in 2024 and about 250 in 2025, according to the ...

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Police in Berkeley are searching for suspects who stole a catalytic converter and pulled a gun on the car's owner.

Cars started using catalytic converters in 1975, after Congress in 1970 created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, ...

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The polarizing Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, with said agency imposing strict emission regulations for gasoline-powered vehicles beginning ...

Catalytic converter thieves prefer raised trucks and the cover of darkness to do their work. A recent report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a non-profit organization dedicated to ...

Catalytic converter thieves brandished a gun at a Berkeley resident early Monday morning on Tremont Street, authorities ...

Emissions and pollution have all but defined the modern era of cars. And since 1975, with the introduction of the Clean Air Act, cleaner burning engines have been priority number one. Yet, while ...

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 ...

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