Sentences with phrase «agency programs aimed»

At a Thursday meeting with the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., new EPA chief Pruitt told mayors he was delivering a message to the White House and Congress that agency programs aimed at cleaning up superfund sites, rehabilitating former industrial land, and improving water infrastructure «are essential to protect.»

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Summary: This report summarizes a Trials of Improved Practices formative assessment that aimed to understand current complementary feeding practices among an urban population, some of whom were engaged in the US Agency for International Development's Urban Gardens Program.

In order to improve breastfeeding for preterm babies, together with Dr Rachel Buffin, from the Regional Milk Bank, we developed an e-learning program that received financial support from the regional Health Agency with the aim to teach all the NICU professionals in the Rhone Alpes Region.

Local governments would also be in line to receive funding for the support of land banks and other development agencies, along with funding for a program aimed at low - cost rental housing.

The program provides $ 56 million dollars annually to community action agencies and programs, with the aim of combating poverty, promoting family and individual self - sufficiency and creating more livable communities.

Westchester County has launched a new program aimed at integrating the response of several county agencies, local officials and community leaders to the growing drug abuse epidemic.

Cohen, the attorney who has handled many civil rights cases aimed at Buffalo Police, shares the same concern as Bordeaux that the city for years has not pursued accreditation from the state's Law Enforcement Agency Accreditation Program.

Additionally, the agency would continue efforts to advance precision medicine and cancer genomics in support of the Million Veteran Program (MVP), which aims to collect blood samples and health information from one million veteran volunteers to study how genes affect health.

Zubrin passionately argued that the space agency must aim for a more ambitious target, asserting that with «gutsy leadership» a visit to Mars could be closer to reality than a moon landing was at the dawn of the Apollo program in 1961.

The request proposes cutting $ 163 million from the agency's chronic disease prevention programs, which aim to reduce incidence of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.

The first «A» in NASA stands for aeronautics, and the agency is leading a host of federal programs and initiatives that aim to develop a fleet of environmentally friendly aircraft

The House of Representatives version of the draft stimulus package does not specify how much money NSF, NIH, and other science agencies will be expected to carve out from their portions of the boost the House wants to give them for scholarships and fellowships, besides $ 60 million for NSF's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, which is aimed at getting undergraduates majoring in science and engineering fields to become teachers.

To her, this sounded like a lot, but the national Gaelic Development Agency was pleased: it's about the number of bilingual speakers they were already aiming to produce through classes and programs, a spokesman told The Scotsman when Kandler's study came out.

Policymakers and funding agencies have taken notice, starting new programs that aim to draw community college students into science.

The research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which supports a Purdue - led program with participation from Princeton and other institutions aiming to develop energy efficient electronic devices based on topological insulators.

The program aims to train graduates for senior leadership roles in school systems, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector, school officials said.

The California Learning Communities for School Success Program (LCSSP) provides funds to local education agencies, including charter schools, to support programs aimed improving student outcomes by reducing truancy and supporting students who are at risk of dropping out of school or are victims of crime.

The ITS JPO also runs active programs for technology transfer, ITS professional capacity building and ITS evaluation, aimed at providing valuable resources for state and local agencies and other ITS stakeholders.

These TNR programs aim to keep community cats out of the shelter entirely by having them fixed and returned to the location at which they were found, all under the auspices of the local animal control agency.

Long and Iles (1997) point to the US Department of Transportation's Climatic Impact Assessment Program (aimed not at the greenhouse effect but aircraft emissions) for producing, in 1975, «the first assessment to focus on social and economic measures,» (p. 6) and the 1989 US Environmental Protection Agency study as «the first extensive appearance of an economic analysis of impacts.»

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

Trump's proposal would hamstring the ability of our nation's health system to keep us safe — especially since it also aims to gut pollution - cutting policies and climate research programs at other federal agencies.

So she reached out to a broad group of government agencies and other partners to create a climate training program in Mumbai aimed specifically at teachers.

Since 2012 — in partnership with myriad government agencies, civic organizations and universities throughout the region — we have been conducting and providing communication research and resources to organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region with the aim of strengthening their programs that address climate change and promote community resilience.

Furthermore, the budget slashes funding for the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Program's inland oil spill preparedness program by 80 percent, and cuts another $ 11 million from BLM as the agency aims to limit new cleanup efforts at abandoned coal mines, promising to remediate only the highest threats to clean water and public Program's inland oil spill preparedness program by 80 percent, and cuts another $ 11 million from BLM as the agency aims to limit new cleanup efforts at abandoned coal mines, promising to remediate only the highest threats to clean water and public program by 80 percent, and cuts another $ 11 million from BLM as the agency aims to limit new cleanup efforts at abandoned coal mines, promising to remediate only the highest threats to clean water and public health.

Overseen by the regional air quality control agency, the program aims to get more people out of private vehicles in order to cut tailpipe pollution and reduce crowding on public transportation.

Nau has joined the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) «SmartWay Transport Partnership» Program, a voluntary partnership between EPA and businesses aimed at reducing fuel consumption as well as greenhouse gases and other air emissions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sponsors a wide variety of industry partnership and stewardship programs that aim to reduce the impact of industrial activities on the environment.

DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society is an accredited, registered non-profit agency offering a wide range of services and programs aimed at assisting new immigrants and refugees to integrate successfully into their new community.

Spearheaded the preparation of international agency's accounts and invoicing / billing and contributed strategic innovative concepts to creative department by consolidating new accounts and dramatically increasing growth Engaged in research work aimed at stimulating demand and developing programs to sustain growth.

In New South Wales, the aim of the program is to create linkages between the Department of Corrective Services, other relevant government agencies and non-government organisations.

The Healthy Fathering Collaborative of Greater Cleveland (HFC) is a network of public and private agencies that aims to provide education, services, and support directly to fathers throughout the lifespan of fatherhood, from pre-conception and pregnancy to childbirth, early childhood, and parenting school - age children.85 Member agencies provide four types of services: programs that help fathers address barriers that impact their involvement with their children; supportive services for fathers; fatherhood development programs; and father - child social / recreational event programs.86

In 2007, the FIRST 5 of Santa Clara County Commission joined forces with the Mexican American Community Services Agency to develop the Fatherhood / Male Collaborative, which seeks to develop programs and services that help fathers become positive influences for their families and children, including parenting workshops, job training, and education, and child visitation and child support assistance.69 FIRST 5 of San Mateo County has implemented a Dad's Workgroup, which consists of representatives from across state and county agencies to determine fatherhood engagement strategies for at - risk fathers, as well as a «Daddy's Tool Bag» DVD that aims to provide fathers with the support and confidence to develop secure attachment with their young children.70

The six - week program also aims to encourage and develop help - seeking behaviour among participants that focuses on community change, as well as strengthen links to local service agencies, both Aboriginal and mainstream.

The Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage - Key Indicators report identifies key areas for improvement and encourages mainstream agencies to adopt the proposed benchmarks when developing policy and programs aimed at addressing disadvantage in Indigenous communities.

MRED last month announced that it would provide sold listings data to CoreLogic's analytics program, Partner InfoNet, which aims to generate revenue by using sold listing data to generate analytics on housing markets and providing those analytics to lenders, Wall Street investors, and government agencies.