Flip-Flop: McCain Now Opposes Emissions Limits

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Friday, July 18, 2008
McCain changes auto emissions stance
Gordon Trowbridge and J.J. McCorvey / The Detroit News


WARREN -- U.S. Sen. John McCain backtracked Friday on a pledge to set national auto emissions standards that would supersede those California and other states want to set.

"I guess at the end of the day, I support the states being able to do that," he said at a town hall meeting at the GM Technical Center.

The statement appears to contradict a statement McCain made to The Detroit News last month, when he said he hoped to set a national standard that would make state standards unnecessary.

McCain, who has been courting Michigan's automakers, was addressing hundreds of General Motors Corp. engineers at the ticket-only event. He toured the GM Design Center Dome in Warren to catch a glimpse of GM's new extended-range electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Volt, which is under development for a 2010 release.

The auto emissions issue is a huge one for car makers, which say allowing states to set their own standards would cost them billions of dollars.

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