Sentences with phrase «alleged impacts of»

Earlier in this suit over fossil fuel funding, says the LAT, the Bush administration argued that «alleged impacts of global climate change are too remote and speculative» to be part of project reviews.

No TNR + No Feeding = More Cats — But That's OK In the 22 months since launching this blog, I've been at pains to expose the flimsy nature of most complaints regarding the alleged impacts of free - roaming cats on wildlife and the environment.

But, some allege the impact of these efforts was muted, as China offshored operations in an effort to subvert the tariffs.

[28] Finally, I turn to the relevance of the severity of the plaintiff's injuries and the alleged impact of those injuries on Ms. Kim.

Not exact matches

«Conservative pundits all too often sound alarms over an effort to take over America and of undocumented immigration's alleged horrific impact on the U.S. economy,» said Román, who authored a book released last year on immigration.

The Impact of Arts Education, released this summer, carefully examines hundreds of experiments and studies on the alleged ancillary benefits of the arts.

In In re Oracle Corp., the Ninth Circuit similarly held that plaintiffs can not prove loss causation «by showing that the market reacted to the purported «impact» of the alleged fraud... rather than to the fraudulent acts themselves.»

Russ — with respect to the unknowns about the universe versus what we perceive in our lives, I draw a distinction between purpose / meaning with respect to our individual experience and those we come in contact with which can impact future generations, and purpose / meaning with respect to that stemming from some alleged deity or causal force of the universe.

In a joint statement from the litigator and law firm, they said this morning the class action would allege that Treasury Wine Estates misled the market and breached its continuous disclosure obligations in relation to the financial impact of over-stocked US distributors.

The claim alleges Treasury, whose brands include Penfolds, Rosemount, Lindemans and Wynns, misled the market and breached its continuous disclosure obligations in relation to the financial impact of over-stocked third - party distributors in the US.

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

Quoted in the New York Times, Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, said his group would seek to have the decision reversed based on the alleged inadequacy of the environmental impact statement on which the USDA relied in making its decision.

The reason being that free movement of labour between member states (one the EU's four freedoms) permitted large - scale migration from East to West, which is alleged to have had impacts such as bidding down the wages of low - skilled workers, and increasing crime.

Nwoye, who said the outcome of the elections would have an impact on the November 18 governorship poll in Anambra State, vowed that the APC would resist the alleged rigging plot.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office in court papers alleged ExxonMobil of misleading investors on the impact of climate change had on its operations.

Housing benefit cuts in April will particularly impact on pensioners, families on low incomes, disabled people (many already traumatised by Atos assessments of their alleged capability for work), the long - term sick, -LSB-...]

The Village of Kiryas Joel filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Woodbury town and village officials, Caesars Entertainment and partner Flaum Management and others, alleging failure to consider the environmental impact of a casino project.

However, the state and city politicians alleged that the partnership's impact would mirror that of the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in the 1990s with Mexico and Canada, and lead to the outsourcing of as much as 20 percent of American jobs — many of them from Queens.

Beyond its use as a tool against large financial institutions, Schneiderman has used the act as a basis for a probe into ExxonMobil, arguing that its alleged failure to disclose to its shareholders and the public research that showed the potential impact of climate change constituted a Martin Act violation.

Smith's lawyers allege that he helped kickstart the project because of its economic impact, not because its developers were political contributors.

The opinion held that under the Fair Housing Act, plaintiffs can bring «disparate impact» claims of discrimination even when the alleged discrimination is unintentional (see «Disparate Impact Indeed,» legal beat, Fall impact» claims of discrimination even when the alleged discrimination is unintentional (see «Disparate Impact Indeed,» legal beat, Fall Impact Indeed,» legal beat, Fall 2015).

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also allege that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

DeVos agreed that the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has a role in helping to ensure that the (yet - unfulfilled) mandate of Brown vs. Board of Education be achieved, and said that if confirmed, she would support OCR in enforcing the various titles of the Civil Rights Act, including investigating and responding to evidence alleging disparate impacts on students.

With the new alleged and confirmed cases reported here, the financial impact of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement in charter schools has reached over $ 223 million since our first report.

Pressing the education system to pay more attention to high achievers (or high - ability youngsters capable of becoming high achievers) is easily depicted as elitist in a country where «top one percent» has become almost a curse and any number of civil - rights advocates and enforcers are poised to allege discrimination and «disparate impact» at the drop of a hat.

Morales said the alleged promise of financial cooperation for promoting «Won't Back Down» had no impact on his or other parents» support for the parent trigger effort and bringing in Hesperia charter school LaVerne Preparatory Academy to take over Desert Trails at the end of this school year.

Additionally, as 90 % of students attending charter schools are students of color, and the New York Charter Schools Act directly targets populations that tend to be overwhelmingly comprised of minorities, the Plaintiffs also alleged that the funding scheme has a disproportionate and discriminatory impact on minority students.

(A) The competitive impact of such judgment, including termination of alleged violations, provisions for enforcement and modification, duration of relief sought, anticipated effects of alternative remedies actually considered, whether its terms are ambiguous, and any other competitive considerations bearing upon the adequacy of such judgment that the court deems necessary to a determination of whether the consent judgment is in the public interest; and

(B) the impact of entry of such judgment upon competition in the relevant market or markets, upon the public generally and individuals alleging specific injury from the violations set forth in the complaint including consideration of the public benefit, if any, to be derived from a determination of the issues at trial.

This is important because most credit damage claims allege a negative impact caused by the actions of a furnisher of credit report data, such as a bank or a collection agency.

To learn more about the situation, we surveyed 507 of Navient's customers to see how many of these individuals have been impacted by these alleged practices that caused the CFPB suit seeking redress for affected consumers.

That the numbers of feral cats and their ecological impact on Australia were both grossly exaggerated was documented as early as 1992 in separate studies by University of Adelaide researcher David Paton, who vocally favored legislation to keep cats indoors, and National Parks & Wildlife officer Ric Nattrass, who concluded that the alleged cat threat was overblown.

Combining GWPF & dire scholarship with the Sahel & alleged «positive impacts «from AGW, I have a swipe at one of the GWPF's Briefing Papers over at DeSmogBlog.

This is especially true when such harms have an alleged disparate impact on a discrete class of society.

Surface warming: «Global temperature evolution: recent trends and some pitfalls» «Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends» «Recently amplified arctic warming has contributed to a continual global warming trend» «On the definition and identifiability of the alleged «hiatus» in global warming» «Global land - surface air temperature change based on the new CMA GLSAT dataset»

My recent Times column argued that the alleged healing of the ozone layer is exaggerated, but so was the impact of the ozone hole over Antarctica:

California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change... Marin and San Mateo counties and Imperial Beach, California, in July brought similar public nuisance and failure to warn lawsuits alleging climate change impacts.

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

A SCIENTIFIC researcher whose groundbreaking study into the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents has criticised the ABC's Media Watch program, saying its journalist hounded his company about alleged media misrepresentations without reading or understanding his report.

Reblogged this on ajmarciniak and commented: A SCIENTIFIC researcher whose groundbreaking study into the impact of wind turbines on nearby residents has criticised the ABC's Media Watch program, saying its journalist hounded his company about alleged media misrepresentations without reading or understanding his report.

The focus on alleged errors with climate impacts is really a recent arrival, beginning in earnest at the end of last year, when questions began to be raised about the IPCC's projections for Himalayan glacier melt.

Ultimately, the alleged effects of human impacts on climate are not creating new weather - related hazards.

This paper alleges that after analysing over 300 species (across 3 groups: plants, insects and vertebrates) between 1970 - 2012, that «Climatic change has had a wide range of impacts on species, with more species impacted positively than negatively in the short - term at least», with climate change the «largest positive impact».

The complaint alleged that the defendants had produced and promoted the use of «massive amounts» of fossil fuels despite having been aware since the 1950s, based on information from the American Petroleum Institute, that emissions from fossil fuels would cause severe and even catastrophic climate change impacts.

Like the handful of cities and counties in New York and California that have sued the energy industry over the past year, the three Colorado municipalities allege that they have been harmed by the impacts of climate change — impacts they have helped cause.

In Sierra Club v. California Energy Commission, the Club alleged that the state of California failed to sufficiently analyze the proposed impact of the project on the desert tortoise — an endangered species.

They allege that the agencies failed to assess the environmental and health impacts on families and communities along the route caused by construction and operation of the pipeline and its cumulative impacts such as climate extremes that are already impacting the region and are being made worse by the increased use of fracked gas.

The alleged group behind the attack crippled the company network before they released sensitive corporate data, including four unreleased films, business plans, contracts and the personal emails of senior staff — having a huge impact on the business.

Given that the impact which material placed online is liable to have on an individual's personality rights might best be assessed by the court of the place where the alleged victim has his centre of interests, the attribution of jurisdiction to that court corresponds to the objective of the sound administration of justice, referred to in paragraph 40 above.

The Commission alleged that the impact assessment had incompletely and incorrectly determined the effects of the Moorburg plant on the Nature 2000 areas situated upstream of the Geestacht weir.