Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal buildings»

Section 433 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act commits new construction and major renovation of U.S. federal buildings to follow the 2030 Challenge targets for the reduction of fossil fuel consumption — the same targets adopted by 70 % of the top 20 architecture, engineering, and planning firms in the U.S., as well as the AIA, ASHRAE, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, many state and local governments, and numerous other professional organizations.

Well that brings to mind Bill Ayers who said he will never apologize for blowing up U.S. federal buildings and injuring people (along with HIS wife Bernadette Dohrn) Then, of course, Obama keeps talking about the «Holy Quran» and making ridicule of the Christian Bible..

If an ethnic or religious group had seized a U.S. federal building and threatened violence and gunfire, cable news would...

Not exact matches

Trump made numerous anti-immigration promises during his campaign, ranging from building a massive wall across the U.S.'s southwestern border to ending federal funding for «sanctuary cities» that are friendly to undocumented immigrants.

Today, in the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana, Calif., the Orange County Register — for the second time — begins to emerge from bankruptcy.

Today, the Orange County Register's parent Freedom Communications Inc. said it would file for bankruptcy protection Monday, at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Santa Ana.

U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July on falling gasoline costs, but solid gains in industrial output and home building suggested a pickup in economic activity that could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year.

Crude futures held on to strong gains in early Asian trading on Thursday, after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged and a weekly government report on oil stockpiles showed an inventory build that was within expectations.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

The U.S. trend, of course, has resulted in overcrowding and a demand for larger state and federal corrections budgets to build more prisons and jails.

Before the federal court as we write is a case brought by the U.S. Attorney against a co-op building on the Lower East Side for refusing a woman permission to keep a stray pit bull she adopted.

BOSTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UFood Restaurant Group Inc. (OTCBB: UFFC) announced today that they will open a UFood Grill restaurant in FAA headquarters, located in the Department of Transportation Building in Washington, D.C. with Sodexo, Inc., who recently announced they were awarded a 7 - year contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to operate food services at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Further, U.S. Public Law 106 - 58 Sec. 647 enacted in 1999, specifically provides that «a woman may breastfeed her child at any location in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at the location.»

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

At 12:15 p.m., concerned citizens, led by Altamont Main Street USA and including members of MoveOn.org, Citizen Action of NY, the Working Families Party and others gather outside the offices of U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for a peaceful rally in opposition to Trump's cabinet appointees, Leo O'Brien Federal Building, N. Pearl Street and Clinton Avenue, Albany.

In the U.S. the states are the fundamental building blocks of the federal system and so, since senators represent states at the national level, they are pivotal in creating policy.

Two Democratic lawmakers want to prohibit the state from investing in any company that enters into a contract with the federal government to build a proposed wall along the U.S. - Mexico border.

A day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, gay couples inundated the Manhattan municipal building where marriage licenses are issued and weddings conducted.

Those involved with building affordable housing across the state are bracing for a potential significant impact as the House and U.S. Senate look to reconcile legislative differences when it comes to how certain types of municipal bonds are treated in the federal tax code.

They will march to the Jacob Javits Federal Building at where the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has its New York City office.

The South Buffalo Democrat says while the former courthouse is vacant, the GSA is wasting money locally leasing space in private buildings for U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the U.S. Trustees, the Federal Defender and U.S. Tax Court.

To date, the biggest real estate battle Astorino has picked is with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, refusing to use $ 5.2 million the agency allocated to help him fulfill a federal mandate to build 750 affordable units in more affluent Westchester areas by 2016.

At noon, union officials and labor supporters rally in support of Honeywell Corp. workers who have been locked out due to a contract dispute and call on the U.S. Department of Defense to suspend its contract with the company, Leo O'Brien federal office building, Albany.

The bill would require sponsors of border - crossing oil pipelines and electricity transmission facilities that cross the U.S. borders into Canada and Mexico to receive a «certificate of crossing» from the relevant federal agency in order to build or modify their projects.

Steve DiMeo, who leads a local development group called Mohawk Valley EDGE, said things «froze» when news first broke late in 2015 that federal prosecutors, led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, were examining how SUNY Poly let contracts on other facilities it is building in Buffalo and Syracuse.

To achieve the desired U.S. Customs plaza additional federal funds will need to be committed for the buildings and facilities that are the responsibility of GSA and CBP.

Borough President Katz and U.S. Representative Gregory Meeks recently restated their proposal to open a USCIS Queens Field Office in the vacant space available in the Addabbo Federal Building in Jamaica, Queens, which is optimally located near mass transit and within easy reach of Queens» 2.3 million residents, nearly half of whom were born abroad.

The indictment states the fraud took place between 2012 and 2016 and involved defrauding various agencies, including the New York City Council, New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the New York City Build it Back Program and a federal bankruptcy court in BrFederal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the New York City Build it Back Program and a federal bankruptcy court in Brfederal bankruptcy court in Brooklyn.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

A day after the administration released the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force progress report, three U.S. federal agencies have announced plans for remapping parts of the East Coast, where Hurricane Sandy altered seafloors and shorelines, destroyed buildings, and disrupted millions of lives last year.

The Administration has made no announcements about turning off or dimming lights at the White House, major federal buildings, monuments, or U.S. government facilities.

A federal government study now reports that bisphenol A (BPA)-- the building block of one of the most widely used plastics — laces the bodies of the vast majority of U.S. residents young and old.

His lab built ShakeAlert over the past six years in partnership with Caltech, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the Southern California Earthquake Center.

U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. James A. Watson, the federal on - scene coordinator for the cleanup and containment efforts, Tuesday gave BP 72 hours to build redundancies and fail - safes into its efforts to collect oil and gas from the Macondo 252 well now that the top hat containment system has begun to capture and recover some of the oil escaping from the wellhead.

If NAMII proves successful and perhaps even financially self - sustaining by the time its federal funding is used up within three years, the U.S. government could use its lessons to build the rest of a $ 1 billion manufacturing innovation network proposed by the Obama administration.

As the sun started its descent behind the U.S. Capitol building on Monday, it seemed virtually certain to rise on a partially shuttered federal government.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

Over the last decade, the U.S. Department of Education has built a robust infrastructure for evaluating programs at the federal level.

As national leadership development strategist for NYCLA, Gutierrez works to build leadership capacity with current and aspiring principal supervisors in 12 states across the U.S.. Also a national leadership development strategist, Polo - McKenna splits her time between coaching school leaders and leadership teams nationally and working on the federal i3 grant - funded Teaming Model project, which pairs aspiring principals and assistant principals and places them as teams in struggling New York schools.

«A bipartisan bill will not have everything that everyone wants, but it must build on our common interests: high standards; flexibility for states, school districts and schools; and a more focused federal role that promotes equity, accountability and reform,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a statement about Harkin's bill Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Education is once again emphasizing the benefit of diversity in its competitive magnet school funding process, and local officials should build on New York City's history of magnet school success to bring home more of that federal funding (For more information about magnet schools in New York City, see a recent New York Times piece on this issue: «Do Magnet Schools Still Matter?

Washington — Building on her remarks from September 7, 2017, regarding the Department's commitment to protecting all students from discrimination, today U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the release of a new interim Q&A for schools on how to investigate and adjudicate allegations of campus sexual misconduct under federal law.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan thanked the commission for its recommendations and indicated that the department could build on its work to marshal resources from across federal agencies to serve «zones of poverty» through efforts similar to the Promise Neighborhoods grant competition.

Revised Asbestos Regulations and Charter Schools The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), passed by Congress in 1986, required the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish federal regulations that safeguard school children from asbestos exposure in school buildings.

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration have an important role to play in building and shaping this future.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is encouraging projects to make the Build America Bureau their first stop when thinking about accessing federal credit programs, or if they are interested in pursuing other innovative finance strategies a public private partnership.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today that he has signed an agreement with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the state to reimburse the federal government $ 95 million for money that was supposed to be spent building the ARC Tunnel.

Imported into the U.S. in 2005 under federal regulations permitting only show and display, this is the street version of the AMG - built racer from the German touring - car championship.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration will fund the design and construction of a new South Air Traffic Control Tower at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, scheduled to be built as part of the O'Hare Modernization Program (OMP).

Pontiacs built in the late 1960s conformed to new U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.