Volkswagen Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller met with the top U.S. environmental official for about an hour today, just a day after U.S. regulators rejected a plan to fix hundreds of thousands of diesel cars with excess emissions as inadequate and not fast enough, according to Reuters.
Mueller met with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy along with Herbert Diess, head of the company's VW brand, and left around 11 a.m. EST from the agency's headquarters without making any comments.
"We appreciate the time that Administrator McCarthy took to meet with us," the company said in a statement. "Volkswagen will continue to fully cooperate."
The German automaker declined to answer questions about the meeting, which Volkswagen had requested.