Two-thirds of the Wyoming House of Representatives signed a letter dated Tuesday urging the Trump administration to pardon a 65-year-old diesel mechanic sentenced to prison for deleting emissions controls from diesel engines.

Emissions controls, mandated by federal and some state laws, recirculate, chemically convert or burn diesel exhaust waste to protect in the name of environmental safety.

They also hamper and in some cases cripple or incinerate diesel engines, leveling dramatic repair costs against the transportation industry, trucking company owners told Cowboy State Daily in Jul y.

“Deleting” them is a common practice in the private and commercial trucking sectors alike, the truckers added.

But Wyoming man Troy Lake, 65, happened to be very good at it. He deleted or helped wi

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