Sentences with phrase «less federal power»

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In today's dollars, the current federal minimum wage offers 30 percent less purchasing power than it did in 1968, according to NELP.

Note that other federal powers are less subject to this restraint.

In ascertaining the power of any city having less than one hundred twenty - five thousand inhabitants according to the latest federal census to contract indebtedness, indebtedness heretofore contracted by such city for education purposes shall be excluded.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

The powers kick in if «receipts, including but not limited to receipts from the federal government, are less than the amount assumed in the 2017 - 18 financial plan.»

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

«In less than 100 days, I have signed 13 such congressional resolutions to cancel federal regulations and give power back to the people,» Trump said.

It is often said that the federal government has little power when it comes to education reform because it kicks in less than 10 percent of the total cost of K - 12 education.

If you're less concerned with instant liquidity and want maximum interest earning power with NCUA protection up to the $ 250,000 federal limit, consider Business Certificate of Deposit (CD).

Conversely, we anticipate an improved relationship with federal regulatory officials as the new administration takes the reins of power and in all likelihood is less aggressive regarding regulatory burdens.

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SolarCity's federal anti-trust lawsuit is based on SRP's alleged attempt to prevent customers from choosing to buy less power from the utility and produce more themselves with rooftop solar, explained SolarCity Associate General Counsel Fred Norton.

Or fees charged to power plant for CO2 emission, should cost less to get the revenue and compared to hideous Federal and State tax return system.

They asked for the goodies less than two months after they won a hard - fought battle to get Congress to extend tax credits for building renewable energy power plants or producing cleaner energy (see Industry Groups Call for Changes to Federal Incentives).

As explained in my new book, Environmentalism Gone Mad (available here), Federal coercion to expand the use of «renewables» would end up forcing electric power ratepayers to spend much more to obtain much less reliable electric power.

What it would really do is burden them with higher electricity rates and Federal taxes for less reliable electric power and thus result in a reduced standard of living.

Despite Oregon having less than average solar irradiation and also having relatively cheap power (only around 11.5 cents / kWh on average) the combination of the generous state tax credit, utility based incentives and the 30 % federal tax credit gets Oregon into the top ten states in America in terms of investment return available from installing solar panels on your home.

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

In my view, a meaningful presumption resulting in a form of «creeping monism» is only slightly less troubling than a de jure monist system in the Canadian context, and for the same reasons: it would effectively permit the federal executive, in executing its power to adhere Canada to international legal obligations, to unilaterally modify, expand or contract the meaning of Charter guarantees.

Indeed, Mills told parliament in June 1869 that if ever it was «a question whether Federal or Local Legislatures should be destroyed,» his view was that «the country would suffer far less by the destruction of the Federal power.»

«Ruling on Mercury Emissions Is Appealed»: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «The Bush administration has appealed a court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the federal Clean Air Act when it issued less stringent requirements to reduce mercury releases from power plants.