US authorities rebuff VW diesel recall plan

US environmental regulators turned down Volkswagen's initial recall plan for its diesel cars equipped with illegal emissions cheat devices Tuesday, a day before its chief holds high-level talks on the scandal in Washington. The California Air Resources Board rejected Volkswagen's recall proposals for its 2.0 liter diesels, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency agreed the plan was not acceptable. CARB said VW's plans "are incomplete, substantially deficient, and fall far short of meetin