Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal task force»

U.S. federal task force calls for domestic and international climate change adaptation strategy

U.S. federal task force calls for domestic and international climate change adaptation strategy (on the 2010 Interagency Adaptation Task Force progress report)

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A U.S. Justice Department task force recently said the Cole Memorandum, which restricts federal marijuana law enforcement in states where pot is legal, should be reevaluated to see if it should be changed.

Astorino noted that Westchester County Police detectives are assigned to multiple federal - local task forces, including the FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force, FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, the FBI Organized Crime Task Force, DEA Tactical Diversion Squad, U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force and the IRS Money Laundering Task Force.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

EPA would no longer contribute to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a multiagency task force that coordinates federal research on global change.

However, as crude and gasoline prices continued to rise between 2007 and 2008 this practice became so contentious that in June 2008 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided to create task forces to investigate whether this took place.

The U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national climate change adaptation strategy, says a federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.

In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

One federal judge appointed him to represent prisoners in a collective action over second - hand tobacco smoke (a case that resulted in compensation for the clients and the banning of tobacco from Maryland's prisons), another asked him to serve on the U.S. District Court's task force regarding electronic discovery, and the Chief Judge asked him to serve on that court's bench - bar subcommittee on attorneys» fees.