Sentences with phrase «powers agency funded»

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As publicly - funded agencies with significant enforcement powers conferred by legislation, we are concerned that this last - minute cancellation of a public event demonstrates disregard for public accountability and openness to scrutiny.

The latter three programs are funded with sweeps from dedicated funds and transfers from the New York State Energy and Research Development Agency and the New York Power Authority.

Cuomo aides say the project will be funded through a financing agreement between two state run agencies — Empire State Development Corp. and the New York Power Authority.

The proposals, which come with # 255,000 of new funding, will insist on police and local agencies using all the tools and powers available to them to tackle the seven per cent of persistent troublemakers who cause the most problems.

Mr. Raskin criticized the governor's proposal, arguing that Mr. Cuomo already had power over the agency's spending priorities and its funding in the state budget.

cuomos trying to move money from one state agency to another how slick is that, a governor who wants unsurped power so he can play king and do things that no other governor has done in new york state and yes governor cuomo, it has not escaped the eyes of the people who serve under you wanting to move money between state agencys example and this one is right on the money no funds for the department of environmental conservation in cuomos 2012/2013 budget for hydrofracking BUT HOLD ON IF HE CAN MOVE MONEY BETWEEN STATE AGENCYS THAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED IS IT NOT, HOW CONVIENENT GOVERNOR CUOMO AND YOU DO THIS IN THE NAME OF MAKING NEW YORK GOVERMENT WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY, how naive do you think upstaters are and that includes the politicians under you, YOU ARE NOT A KING AND YOU WILL NOT BE GRANTED THESE NEW UNSURPED POWERS SHAME ON YOU.

Former petroleum minister, Mrs. Diezani Allison - mature, has blasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for displaying lack of understanding of the constitutional powers of a Nigerian President in managing funds meant for security / intelligence agencies.

New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli is wielding the power of the state's $ 160 billion pension fund to urge President Barack Obama to order federal agencies in every state to recognize gay marriages performed in New York.

Groups that receive funding would have to be pre-certified by the Attorney General, and state agencies would be given the power to oversee distribution of the funds, according to a press release.

His lawsuit notes that he is seeking «an order of mandamus compelling the President or his assigned Ministers to bring to Parliament appropriate legislation establishing the institutions or agencies to implement the said initiatives, and to have proper regulations presented to Parliament for enactment to govern the exercise of discretionary power necessarily implicated in the implementation of the said initiatives once the Appropriations (No. 2) Act, 2017 (Act 951) was passed by Parliament authorizing the appropriation of the funds.»

The funding agencies that define the metrics of researchers» success have the power to motivate change in this treatment, she said.

ARPA - E, the U.S.'s energy transformation agency, is doling out funds for greener power, but is it too conservative?

The much - anticipated 184 - page guide sets out how to do just that, suggesting that those wielding the «most power» — advisers, research institutions, and funding agencies — strive to rectify problems that fuel neglect and exploitation of postdoctoral researchers.

Much of the SRI team's new external funding support and research direction came at the time from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research, whose directors were primarily interested in using the technology for military purposes, including small reconnaissance robots and lightweight power generators.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Germany's plans to shut down the last of its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022 is a huge chance for the country's researchers, Matthias Kleiner, head of the German Research Foundation, the country's largest funding agency, said in an interview with ScienceInsider.

Their concerns have been sparked by two simultaneous developments: increasing public criticism by key Republicans of research funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a congressional power shift that has placed many vocal so - called climate change sceptics and opponents of environmental regulations in positions of power.

The situation was recently made public in news reports and has led to calls for stronger powers by funding agencies in Canada to discipline researchers who engage in the practice.

With funding from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), he's working with a far - flung team at five universities and four IBM labs to create a new computer chip that can mimic the cortex using far less power than a computer.

Shameful, dishonest, big brother government agencies abusing their power and forgetting who fund's their fat paychecks — taxpaying families.

Consistent with the goal of shifting power over education decisions away from Sacramento, the Local Control Funding Formula law creates a new agency to work with, not dictate to, local districts on how to meet their improvement goals.

Last month, the Education Funding Agency said the academy would face limits on its spending powers if a «clear conflict of interest» is not managed by March.

They are scrutinised by the Education Funding Agency, Regional Schools Commissioners and parents directly, while ministers still retain the power, in extremis, to close down a free school.

You have 72 hours to save your spy agency by infiltrating 2074's megacorps, siphoning power and funds with the odds firmly stacked against you, even with a vital rewind function.

If the IEA is uncertain about the prospects of the investments required by its Reference Scenario being financed in developing countries, is there any real likelihood that the funds and infrastructure will be forthcoming to support two or three times the investment in power supply and distribution that the Agency is predicting on the basis of present policies?

Concentration of power without accountability in NAS's review of the budgets of research funding agencies (NSF, NASA, DOE, EPA, etc.) for Congress.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).

ARPA - E's $ 180 million budget allocation also leaves the agency critically underfunded compared to the $ 1.5 billion in eventual funding recommended by the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, and Breakthrough Institute in their report Post-Partisan Power or the $ 1 billion per year called for by the National Academies and originally envisioned in the bipartisan 2007 authorizing language that created the agency.

Consider in this regard the deeply deceptive recent WSJ op - ed by David B. Rivkin Jr., who writes for the National Review and is a principal attorney in the fossil fuel industry attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency clean power plan, and Andrew M. Grossman, who represents the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an organization with long - established ties to both the fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry before it, including its ongoing affiliation with Chris Horner, the very lawyer Alpha was funding to attack climate scientists.

The Guardian uncovered in February 2015 that «Berman has secretly routed funding for at least 16 studies and launched at least five front groups attacking Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting carbon dioxide from power plants.»

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies and programs relevant to the hydroelectric power sector all see funding cuts in the federal budget proposal released yesterday by President Donald Trump.

The funds went to building a network of thinktanks and activist groups that worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and mobilized against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants due to be finalised in the summer of 2015.

Obama's policies of encouraging the World Bank and other international aid agencies to not fund coal power stations in poor countries are doing great harm — slowing development and slowing world growth.

Along with representatives from the Environmental Defence Fund and the Prince of Wales» Corporate Leaders Group, Agency experts detailed how increased energy efficiency, phasing out least - efficient coal - fired power plants, investing more in renewables, ending fossil - fuel subsidies and cutting methane emissions can limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

Since going into operation in 2009, ARPA - E, as it is known, has provided about $ 1.3 billion in funding to more than 475 projects involving grid - scale batteries, power storage, biofuel production, wind turbines and other technology, according to a May report on the agency.

To rectify the situation, the Clean Jobs Bill proposed amending the Illinois Power Agency Act so that the separate accounts could be joined, creating a larger pool of money that could be used to fund renewable development.

For the rest, they have to make compliance payments to the Illinois Power Agency (IPA), which can use the funds to buy RECs or renewable energy.

In one email to his cohort of lobbyists, Seitz endorsed a report attacking the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan by the Institute for Energy Research, which received significant funding from the Koch network in 2015.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its authority to regulate global warming pollution went through its first shakedown today before the Koch Industries and ExxonMobil funded [pdf] House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Energy and Power Subcommittee.

State agencies, communities and key programs partner to better serve families receiving federal TANF funds About 175 families receiving federal assistance will now have access to the high - quality home visiting programs that have the power to give their children a better start and change the future for their whole family.