International Council on Clean Transportation

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) is an independent nonprofit research organization founded in 2001 and incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(3) public charity. It provides environmental regulators with objective technical and scientific analysis on transportation, energy, and environmental policy, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from road, marine, and air transport. Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C., with regional offices in San Francisco, São Paulo, Berlin, Beijing, and New Delhi. In 2005 the ICCT formalized its status as a mission-driven non-governmental organization. The organization is widely known for its role in exposing the Dieselgate scandal: in 2013 it commissioned researchers at West Virginia University to test Volkswagen diesel emissions, which led to a 2014 alert to the U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board and, in 2015, to a global emissions scandal.