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Auto and oil companies are gearing up for a battle to squelch California's electric-vehicles mandate just as New York and Massachusetts prepare to enact equally stringent zero-emission rules. But a dirty little secret may emerge this week when scores of EV drivers converge on a public hearing at the California Air Resources Board--namely, that GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota and other companies have worked to undermine the mandate to build tens of thousands of battery-run vehicles...
...create a level playing field for everyone, Congress would need to enact a flat exemption that covers all assets--from home to pension. Otherwise there is the kind of inequity described by A. Jay Cristol, the chief U.S. bankruptcy judge in Miami...
...June 4, 1998. The answer: "A month's worth of groceries." Sponsored by a consortium of credit-industry trade associations, the ad showed a shopping cart filled with groceries. "Today's record number of personal bankruptcies costs every American family $400 a year. Now Congress has an opportunity to enact bankruptcy reform that reduces this burden and is fair to everyone...while ensuring that people who can pay their debts...
While the industry got much of what it wanted, Congress thus far has sidestepped an opportunity to enact a genuine reform and end one of the most blatant bankruptcy inequities--the homestead provision...
Robert Winters, a longtime council observer and publisher of the online Cambridge Civic Journal, used the public comment period at the beginning of the meeting to criticize the wording of the agenda item. He called for councillors to enact a "charter right"--which would postpone discussion on the matter for a week...