Sentences with phrase «abatement programs on»

«I think you're going to see more children, not fewer children, exposed to lead,» said Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat [from Rhode Island] who has sought more funding for lead - abatement programs on the Senate subcommittee that funds HUD.

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It has strong positions on several issues sunsetting in June, including the 421a and J - 51 tax abatement programs as well as rent control in New York City, which developers oppose expanding.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of both houses of the State Legislature announced a «framework» for a deal Tuesday on several outstanding issues, including rent regulations, the 421 - a tax abatement program, mayoral control of New York City's schools and the education tax credit.

ALBANY — Hundreds of construction workers rallied on the steps of the Capitol on Tuesday, blasting the mayor of New York City and urging state lawmakers to attach a prevailing wage provision to any renewal of the 421 - a tax abatement program.

ALBANY — New York City mayor Bill de Blasio chided the State Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday for what he said was their lack of leadership on his proposed reforms to rent regulations and the controversial 421 - a tax abatement program.

ALBANY — With a deadline looming, Republican state senators are finally breaking their silence on the 421 - a tax abatement program set to expire in two weeks.

During Silver's trial, prosecutors showed how Glenwood went along with a scheme that allowed Silver to collect referral fees while considering legislation on a tax - abatement program crucial to Glenwood's business.

Developers blame the feud for the lapse of the tax abatement program in January, which has hamstrung new projects and put a damper on the city's investment sales market.

Nearly one third of the members of the state Assembly have signed onto a letter calling on their colleagues to let the 421 - a tax abatement program expire if substantial changes are not made to New York City's rent laws.

Cuomo insisted he can work productively with the mayor on combatting homelessness despite their long - running feud, and he said one of their biggest challenges is the expiration of the 4231 - a tax abatement program to incentivize affordable housing development in NYC.

Commissioners are also examining the link between campaign donations and a real estate abatement program as well as a «carve - out» for a large retailer on the minimum wage increase enacted this spring.

The $ 153.1 billion budget, which the State Legislature passed on Sunday, raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old, included Gov. Andrew Cuomo's free public college tuition plan, brought back the 421 - a tax abatement program for developers and renewed the millionaires tax on people whose salaries are more than $ 1 million.

MANHATTAN — All eyes will be on Albany next week when the city's rent regulation laws and its 421a program giving tax abatements for new projects are set to expire.

In exchange for the payments to his son from the real estate firm and environmental firm, Dean Skelos introduced legislation to extend the controversial 421 - a program which provides tax abatements to developers and voted for legislation that allows landlords to increase rent on rent stabilized apartments.

The panel is focusing on the circumstances surrounding the bill's passage, which paved the way for the five developers to use 421 - A tax abatements at projects around Manhattan, despite the projects appearing not to fit the criteria for the program.

After they failed to agree on paying construction workers a prevailing wage for buildings with 15 or more units, the tax abatement program expired, and the governor has yet to announce a program to take its place.

De Blasio's last housing fight led him in June to angrily accuse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of carrying out a «vendetta» when whey clashed on the mayor's efforts to amend a real estate tax abatement program and win stronger rent control laws.

The state senator on Monday is sending a letter to the New York State Department of Homes and Community Renewal's commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas urging her to inform tenants if the agency suspects their apartments were illegally removed from rent stabilization under the J - 51 tax abatement program.

Both companies had a financial interest in Silver's work in the Legislature, particularly on the 421a tax abatement program and the perpetual debate over rent regulations.

The 421a program was conceived as an incentive for developers to build on unused or underutilized land, and was augmented in 2008 to include a requirement that 20 percent of units receiving the abatement be affordable.

The Durst Organization's Hallets Point project in Queens, which relies partly on the defunct 421 - a tax abatement program.

421 - a & Affordable Housing Money Heastie said Tuesday that there was significant agreement on the new 421 - a property tax abatement program that is meant to spur affordable housing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as Affordable New York.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

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While international negotiations have focused on mitigation and adaptation, relatively little time has been spent discussing the appropriate role for CDR in international GHG abatement programs.

The Department of Commerce, in consultation with the Washington State University (WSU) Extension Energy Program, will analyze carbon reduction opportunities which may include a marginal abatement cost curve providing guidance on the cost to reduce emissions in various sectors with various technologies.

«The uncertainty concerning the demand for allowances is especially large at the beginning of any program,» the MIT study found, «because it reflects not only the usual unpredictable variables of economic activity, weather, and energy prices, but also, and perhaps most importantly, the amount of abatement that will take place in response to the new price on emissions.

While something like a Global Apollo program for clean energy (and for other climate change abatement strategies too) is almost certainly a good idea, society risks moving too slowly to curtail climate change by focusing primarily on R&D.

Ellerman, A.D. and A. Decaux (1998), Analysis of Post-Kyoto CO2 Emissions Trading Using Marginal Abatement Curves, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report No. 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I am currently a Reserve firefighter for the City of Oakdale and I have volunteered my time for numerous programs including Team - up Against Graffiti where I helped remove graffiti on both public and private property, I mapped out all of the hydrants in the city of Oakdale including the surrounding rural areas with a hand held GPS device for the Oakdale City Fire Department and Oakdale Rural Fire Department, and I was involved in the Weed Abatement program where I identified problem properties, contacted residents, followed up on compliance, entered data onto spreadsheets, and filed all documentation.

Land management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land owners.