Sentences with phrase «national defense council»

He made reference to the Rawlings - led Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) era, where Dr. Isaac Adjei - Marfo, was made Secretary (Minister) for Cocoa Affairs, and said things worked remarkably well for both the farmer and the nation under that arrangement.

There were allegations that Joseph Mensah was once a cadre of the then PNDC regime, and that a book he had authored also made mention of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) regime, led by Jerry John Rawlings.

The MP has been in politics since the Provisional National Defense Council days of Jerry John Rawlings.

A series of alternating military and civilian governments from 1966 to 1981 ended with the ascension to power of Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) in 1981.

Cadres, during the era of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC), were trained as members of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) under the regime of Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings in the 1980s to defend the ideologies and activities of the 1979 and 1981 revolution.

There were allegations that Joseph Mensah was once a cadre of the then PNDC regime after authoring a book which made mention of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) regime, led by Jerry John Rawlings.

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Unfortunately, however, government resources are actually flowing the other way: according to a report from the U.S. - based National Resources Defense Council, since 2009, global subsidies for fossil fuels have almost tripled to an estimated US$ 775 billion this year.

What's more likely, the National Resources Defense Council suggests, is that the development of clean energy technologies will accelerate.

The National Security Council, the security cabinet, then - defense minister Moshe Ya'alon, and the IDF were also implicated.

«Consumers should be as concerned as the foremost infectious disease doctors are — which is very concerned,» David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the environmental nonprofit the National Resources Defense Council, who contributed to the report, told Time.

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

Among the many scheduled American participants were the political advisor to the head of the U.S. Northern Command, the president for the Americas of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the senior director for the Western Hemisphere of the American National Security Council, the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Defense Carla Hills (who was the primary U.S. NAFTA negotiator), the senior United States Air Force military assistant to the then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from defense Donald Rumsfeld, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, the chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology, Dr. James Schlesinger, the former American secretary of energy & defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from defense, the deputy secretary of energy, plus many other top business, government and military officials, plus representatives of similar groups from Mexico.

According to Axios, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Defense Secretary James Mattis have all been fighting against steel and aluminum tariffs.

Source: National Resource Defense Council.

The National Resources Defense Council and the University of California - Berkeley are teaming up to conduct an environmental study on the impact of ridesharing services Uber and Lyft.

«Had those regulations been finalized for FEMA and HUD in particular, they would have ensured that all the post-Harvey rebuilding complied with those standards, helping ensure that we built back in a way that was safer,» said Rob Moore, senior policy analyst at the National Resources Defense Council.

The National Resources Defense Council recently released a study that says Americans throw away 40 percent of their food every single day.

Some recipes call for cod, striped bass, or snapper, but because these fish are considered «moderate mercury» fish by the National Resources Defense Council, they are best eaten only occasionally.

Other participants in the Further With Food collaboration include the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Feeding America, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, the National Consumers League, Natural Resources Defense Council, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund.

Advocacy groups including No Labels, the National Resources Defense Council and Washington Conservation Voters are current clients, according to Myers, who has also been pitching the service to sitting members of Congress.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

«You want New York to lead other states,» Jackson Morris of the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) told The Alt.

«You want New York to lead other states,» Jackson Morris of the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) told

Communications research coordinator for the National Resource Defense Council Action Fund, April - Aug.

get involved with and / or donate funds to national environmental advocacy organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, and 350.org; and local groups like Environmental Advocates of New York and the NY League of Conservation Voters.

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization concludes that 10 national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the nextNational Resources Defense Council and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization concludes that 10 national parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the nextnational parks in California could be headed for steep temperature increases over the next century

Near Plant Branch, ranked as the 10th dirtiest coal plant in the nation in 2011 by the National Natural Resources Defense Council, the average income within three miles is $ 22,702.

Meanwhile, the State Department is working to coordinate the various U.S. and international government agencies involved in the fight against Ebola, including the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, as well as U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Security Council.

The FDA was forced to make its determination as part of a settlement to a lawsuit filed in August by the National Resources Defense Council, an environmental group based in New York.

National Marine Fisheries Service The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund American Forest Resource Council

In its current form, the NFIP is «ill - suited to deal with the challenges we face today and the flood risks we face five, 10, 50 years from now,» says Robert Moore, a senior policy analyst at the National Resources Defense Council.

Mathew J. Burrows, Counselor, US National Intelligence Council James Cartwright, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS William Cobbett, Manager, Cities Alliance, The World Bank Jared Cohen, Director, Google Ideas Mariette DiChristina, Editor - in - Chief, Scientific American Thomas Enders, CEO, EADS NV Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Center for Government, McKinsey & Co..

Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

The authors acknowledge funding from the National Medical Research Council of Singapore and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

In Guitierrez - Brizuela v. Lynch, a 2016 immigration case, Gorsuch waved a red flag against the «Chevron deference» — a doctrine under which courts are supposed to defer to federal agencies on interpretations of rules that developed from a 1984 decision, Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council.

There is broad agreement that first - rate scientists and engineers have helped make the U.S. military one of the most potent fighting forces in the world, notes the report from the U.S. National Academies» National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering that was requested by the Department of Defense (DOD).

The National Resource Defense Council filed a similar action on Oct. 16 against the EPA to block Enlist Duo, saying the new weed killer will be destructive to monarch butterfly populations and pose risks to humans.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

In prior tours in government, Mr. Poneman served as a White House Fellow and as Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control for the National Security Council.

She also has interests in environmental issues and supports several «green» organizations, including the National Resources Defense Council.

«Liberia's national existence is «seriously threatened» by the deadly Ebola virus that is «spreading like wild fire and devouring everything in its path,» the country's national defense minister told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

The study was also funded by the National Cancer Institute (R01CA142776, P50CA083638), the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the Breast Cancer Alliance, the Department of Defense, the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research, and the China Scholarship Council.

The Task Force is chaired by Vice President Joe Biden and consists of the heads of major executive branch departments, agencies, and offices including the NIH, the NCI, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Health, the National Economic Council, and others.

The National Resource Defense Council tested fourteen air fresheners and found that most contained chemicals known to cause hormone imbalance, birth defects, or reproductive harm.

However I did find this article by the National Resources Defense Council and they have some hopeful things to say about this matter.

«Frankly, that's the only thing that ever has made a difference: People standing up for what they believe in,» added president of the National Resources Defense Council Rhea Suh.

In addition, the researchers found higher rates of chromosome changes in the white blood cells of the exposed fishermen — changes that have been linked to an increased risk of cancer in other studies, says Gina Solomon, MD, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group.

National Resources Defense Council.

The National Resources Defense Council measured phthalates in a variety of air fresheners and found that 80 percent of them contained phthalates.