Automaker Volkswagen has suspended a top executive in response to widespread public criticism over experiments in which monkeys were exposed to diesel exhaust.

汽车制造商大众利用猴子进行柴油尾气测试引发公众广泛批评，该公司为此将一名高管停职。

The company said in a statement Tuesday that Thomas Steg, head of government relations and sustainability, was stepping away from his duties at his own request.

大众30日发表声明称，该公司政府关系与可持续性负责人托马斯•施特格主动要求离职。

Steg had said in an interview published in the newspaper Bild that he had known about the experiment but did not inform the company's then-CEO, Martin Winterkorn. Steg said he rejected an initial proposal to use human volunteers and said that even after animals were substituted the experiment "should not have taken place."

施特格在接受德国《图片报》采访时曾表示，他已经知晓此事，但并未通知大众时任首席执行官马丁•温特科恩。施特格称，他拒绝了以人类志愿者为试验对象的最初方案，并称即使后来用动物代替人类进行试验“也是不可取的”。

The move follows a report in The New York Times that the now-disbanded EUGT commissioned the 2017 monkey test at the Lovelace Respiratory Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to measure how Volkswagen's diesel technology was succeeding in controlling harmful emissions.

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