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By John O'Dell, Senior Editor


While they've been publicly sniping at one another over California's controversial greenhouse gas reduction rules for automobiles, a group of automakers, environmentalists and regulators have been privately meeting to see if there's any common grounds for agreement.


We're not getting our hopes up.


The series of meetings, conducted at the invitation of the private, nonprofit Aspen Institute, took place over the past few months but have ended with no agreement and no plans for further meetings, according to a source with insider knowledge of the sessions.


The meetings were attended by representatives of Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co., the California Air Resources Board, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and the Union of Concerned Scientists.


All of the participants signed an agreement to keep the content of the greenhouse gas meetings confidential.


Green Car Advisor is told that while the sessions did promote "greater understanding of the issues" by all parties, there were no changes of mind and no agreements to compromise.
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Tags: Emissions, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Aspen Institute, Greenhouse Gas Meetings

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No Accord After Automakers Meet With Enviros, Regulators on GHG Standards was originally published by Green Car Advisor. Read the full story by clicking here.