Sentences with phrase «house czar»

Let's hope President Obama's revamping of his energy and climate team (If you hadn't heard, Carol Browner, the White House czar for these issues, is leaving) results in more support for the E.P.A. unit working with industry to redefine best practices.

The Albany Housing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The most recent mini-scandal involved former Assemblyman Darryl Towns, whose departure to become Cuomo's housing czar sparked the need for today's special election.

(As you'll recall, he gave it up to become Gov. Andrew Cuomo's housing czar).

My downstate colleagues have been doing a pretty thorough job covering what might be the most interesting of the six Assembly special elections to be held Sept. 13: The three - way Democratic battle for the Brooklyn seat vacated by Darryl Towns, who is now Gov. Andrew Cuomo's housing czar.

Eimicke was Mario Cuomo's deputy secretary for policy and programs, then Mario Cuomo's housing czar for three years before resigning under pressure in 1988.

It was supposed to come about two weeks ago — right on the heels of Cuomo's selection of Destito's colleague, Assemblyman Darryl Towns, to serve as his housing czar — I'm not clear on what the hold - up was.

William Eimicke, a consultant who served as former Gov. Mario Cuomo's housing czar, was also present.

Former Brooklyn Assemblyman Darryl Towns, for example, is Cuomo's housing czar.

Several names known to the real estate industry have emerged as potential replacements, including Bill de Blasio's housing czar Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Public Advocate Letitia James, whose office has been sued for publishing the «worst landlords of New York City» list.

He served as a housing czar under former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and as a paid consultant to COR Development, the Central New York real estate firm whose top executives allegedly bribed Percoco for his help with their state - funded projects.

Gross is accompanied by COR Development executive Steve Aiello and consultant Bill Eimicke, of Columbia University, a former adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the «housing czar» for his father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The others include: Darryl Towns (housing czar), RoAnn Destito (OGS commissioner), and Jonathan Bing (special deputy superintendent of the NY Liquidation Bureau).

A COR consultant, William Eimicke, who served as Gov. Mario Cuomo's housing czar, serves on the same board.

In addition, there are three downstate Assembly vacancies that will be filled in the upcoming Sept. 13 special elections for the seats that were held by Darryl Towns (now Cuomo's housing czar), Audrey Pheffer (now Queens County clerk), and Nettie Mayersohn (she retired during the last session).

Not exact matches

Currently, a victim of identity theft can not change their Social Security number, which is the primary reason why White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce is advocating for a new system.

The White House nominated Carroll as national drug czar earlier this month.

He quit his unofficial post as White House regulatory czar, not because of moral compulsion, but because he knew that The New Yorker was about to drop an article revealing the extent of his self - dealing on behalf of his refinery company.

Kurland gives Bloomer and CPS Food Czar Louise Esaian gold stars for advocating for salad bars, farm to school initiatives, and universal breakfast long before these policies became White House darlings.

More than two years after de Blasio announced an ambitious plan to create 15,000 supportive - housing apartments, only a few hundred are up and running, the city's homelessness czar said.

That's my warning to those who might support former Bronx Borough President and White House urban czar Adolfo... Continue reading →

In the US there is the White House drugs czar Gil Kerlikowske and the head of the DEA, Michelle Leonhart.

Bill Eimicke: Columbia University professor and former housing «czar» under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

After stumbling through their own in - house CGI animated features, Disney (with a little guidance from Pixar's creative leader and new Disney animation czar John Lasseter) finally finds the right balance of classic animation magic and contemporary sensibility with this comic musical adventure version of the «Rapunzel» fairy tale.

A lifelong interest with all things tech - related has seen Lord Sugar become involved with home computing, producing satellite dishes and an appointment to the House of Lords as Enterprise Czar.

Housed in the former residence of czars, the museum exemplifies the opulence of a once imperial palace.

President - elect Barack Obama's transition team is flirting with creating a White House «Climate Czar,» but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn't want the job.

His research has earned him the scorn of White House science czar John Holdren, who personally attacked Pielke's research last year.

Holdren is in a position as Science Czar in the Obama White House to try and make this prophecy a reality.

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) passed a resolution in 2013 urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP or Drug Czar's office) to collaboratively develop and adopt an official definition of industrial hemp, and urged Congress to statutorily distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana and to adopt policies which would allow U.S. farmers to grow industrial hemp.

Virtually every other key policy role was filled by environmental regulators — former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Carol Browner as climate czar, former Browner aide Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator, and Nancy Sutley as chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Incoming White House energy - environment czar Carol Browner was recently discovered to be a commissioner in Socialist International.

Rather than documenting the negotiations producing the «Historic Agreement,» White House Environment Czar Carol Browner required participants to observe a «vow of silence» and forbade them to take notes.

As part of the «Historic Agreement» 12 brokered by Obama Environment Czar Carol Browner, California and other states agreed to consider compliance with EPA's greenhouse gas emission standards as compliance with their own.13 But in return, auto manufacturers and their trade associations had to support both the Tailpipe Rule and the California waiver.14 In a September 30, 2011 letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa summarized the terms for auto makers under the «Historic Agreement»:

The bottom - up approach to handling reform objectives was commented upon favorably even by the former Obama regulatory czar and noted expert on administrative law, Cass Sunstein, when on March 3 he wrote in Bloomberg, «Because the White House itself lacks the capacity to scrutinize the stock of existing regulations, the Trump administration was smart to call for task forces within each agency to do that — and to require them to engage with the public to see which regulations are really causing trouble.»

Because White House science czar John Holdren has «highlighted what he believes were serious misstatements by Prof. Pielke,» according to Grijalva's letter to the University of Colorado.

The night before President Barack Obama was set to address Californians stricken by a prolonged drought, White House science czar Dr. John Holdren told reporters that virtually all weather is being impacted by climate change and that droughts were getting «more frequent, they're getting longer and they're getting dryer.»

«The global climate has now been so extensively impacted by the human - caused buildup of greenhouse gases, that weather practically everywhere is being influenced by climate change,» White House science czar Dr. John Holdren told reporters Thursday night.

Among his biggest admirers is John Holdren, the green activist who is now President Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science And Technology Policy, aka his Science Czar.

The President clearly saw Jones» leadership skills and brought him into the White House as the Green Jobs Czar.

Both industry and environmental groups have expressed support for the choices of Dr Steven Chu for Secretary of Energy, Lisa Jackson for EPA Administrator, Nancy Sutley to be Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Carol Browner for Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change (otherwise known as the «Energy Czar») and Heather Zichal for Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.