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The Commissioner risks rolling back industry efforts to scrutinize individual supply chains and combat human rights abuses and potential cases of conflict financing along them.»

Burger King Corp, DineEquity Inc's IHOP and more than a dozen other restaurant chains earlier this month backed an industry effort to serve and promote healthier meals for children.

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That's a big win for the nursing home industry, which requested relief from what it called burdensome fines and claimed was holding back efforts to run better facilities.

It helped fund industry anti-labeling efforts in two states before backing off.

Recently, Bloomberg reported that Jamie Dimon was a key player in an industry - wide effort to roll back a provision of the Dodd - Frank financial reform bill that would have required banks to split their derivative trading units from the rest of the bank.

Rewriting rules to stop methane leaks from oil and gas industry March 28 Trump has attempted to roll back rules to prevent methane leaks from oil and gas operations, but the effort has faced challenges.

Independent SBA lending industry analyst Bob Coleman believes the Treasury's effort to support asset - backed securities, in particular, will help rejuvenate the secondary market.

But the little - known agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been thrust into the spotlight as trade groups mount an unusually intense lobbying effort, seeking to scale back regulations that they say are hampering an industry that could provide a market - based solution to the affordable housing crisis.

Plant - based dairy industry groups are fighting back against the dairy lobby after recent efforts to stop the plant - based...

Sodexo is committed to playing a role in achieving this goal and is redoubling our efforts to eliminate food waste at every client site we serve through programs that focus on raising awareness and influencing the behaviors of our customers and employees; continuously improving our back - of - house processes and upgrading equipment in the kitchen; measuring our impact; and sharing our expertise with our clients and external industry partners to drive fundamental change on the issue of food waste.

FitFlop will be donating 100 % of its net profit from sales back to the Wola Nani organization in an effort to give help and inspire hope through creativity and industry.

The Trump administration is expected to launch an effort in coming days to weaken greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for automobiles, handing a victory to car manufacturers and giving them ammunition to potentially roll back industry standards worldwide.

The hotel industry, including the politically key Hotel Trades Union, has pushed back against efforts by Airbnb to expand its operations in New York.

-- New York City poised to join Airbnb crackdown effort backed by hotels, unions, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: New York's City Council is plotting a crackdown on Airbnb, the largest home - sharing platform in the world, as the hotel industry and its unionized workers push lawmakers in some of the nation's biggest cities to blunt the $ 30 billion company's growth.

NYPIRG's report, titled «Rising from the Ashes,» said the uptick was largely due to the industry's push - back against former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to end point - of - sale advertising in retail outlets.

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

These cuts would scale back federal efforts to foster the development of wind and solar energy, in line with President Donald Trump's campaign promise to bring back coal industry jobs.

«With much of the industry attention and innovation focused on hook - up apps and the millennial generation, FirstMet fills an important void in helping single adults seeking new relationships, while minimizing the effort and stress of getting back in the dating game.»

These include CNBC.com, the... Silicon Valley men push back on gender equity efforts — CNBC — Many in the tech industry had previously

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And I know I already have a reputation here as someone who cares more about pork chops than the Oscars, but out in the real world people still put stock in them so it'd be a nice pat on the back for these billion - dollar industry ambassadors to get a little recognition for their efforts.

But as if their claim about Connecticut becoming Wisconsin wasn't misleading enough, the labor leaders use their commentary piece to mock our ongoing effort to push back the corporate education reform industry and re-take control of our system of public education.

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel's office gave a boost to the SEIU's $ 15 million - plus effort to unionize the fast food industry by backing SEIU's outrageous legal theory on franchisees.

Check back for much more on the key issues surrounding student data and privacy, the Corporate Education Reform Industry's efforts and the failure of public officials to address this growing problem.

With this year's gubernatorial election six months away, some might think Governor Malloy would back off his corporate education reform industry agenda in an effort to convince teachers, parents and public school advocates to reconsider their opposition to his candidacy.

While the primary focus of the blog has been the on - going effort to push back against the corporate education reform industry and re-take public control of public education, we've collectively dealt with an impressive array of issues.

post entitled, «SFER — The $ 7 million + «student run» Corporate Education Reform Industry Front Group,» provided an update on how charter school advocates and the broader education reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching proIndustry Front Group,» provided an update on how charter school advocates and the broader education reform industry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching proindustry is using a variety of advocacy groups to back their effort to privatize public education and undermine the teaching profession.

The nation's leading public education advocate, Diane Ravitch, along with a host of teachers, parents, academics and public education advocates have been heroic in their efforts to push back the Corporate Education Reform Industry and its truly un-American political agenda.

It has largely been an event aimed at patting the traditional publishing industry on the back for all of its innovation, while publishing regular blog posts that mock indies and shoot down any effort to prove that self - publishing can produce solid sales numbers.

Our industry is in the middle of a vast technological and cultural shift that's not going to be slowed down by legacy publishing's efforts to turn back the clock.

Industry has declined in recent years, but the city is making a strong effort to bring good jobs back to the city.

So far the U.S. mutual fund industry has beat back regulatory efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission chair to tighten regulations: for companies to put up more money in reserves or allow the unit price to float so investors understand what they're getting into.

At the core of the data supplied to the Qatar Tourism Authority is the Guest Experience Index ™, the only scientifically backed quality measures in the hospitality industry, resulting from a cooperative effort between Olery and VU University Amsterdam.

The authors, Kenny Walker, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, and Lynda Walsh, an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, describe how surprised they were by this pattern, given a large body of work, including «Merchants of Doubt,» the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, showing that inflating uncertainty has mainly been the task of industry - backed efforts to blunt public concern and policy.

But while science advances through that process of argument, public attitudes on climate change have largely been dulled by the debate, particularly after more than a decade of industry - backed efforts to point to the implicit complexity in the science as a reason for inaction on related energy and climate policies.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Representatives of America's wind energy industry are making a financial commitment of $ 1 million to Habitat Hammers Back as well as a commitment of volunteers to help with the rebuilding effort.

Today I offer this post as a «Summary for Policymakers» regarding my series of seven prior blog posts about a smear effort which took place back in 2007 that is a case study for examining other prior and current industry corruption accusations against skeptic climate scientists.

As we look back on what has been a great year for the green roof industry in general and rooflite ® Certified Green Roof Media specifically, we took the time at our 1st Annual rooflite ® Blenders» Meeting to honor one licensed blender for an outstanding individual effort.

When I look back to the targets set in 2012, and by how much the industry has exceeded them, I feel a great sense of achievement, thanks to the efforts of both industry and successive governments.

They discovered a cadre of highly intelligent, distinguished, but also extremely conservative scientists behind both efforts, backed by an industry - financed public relations effort to sow doubt, undermine the truth, and slow the public's response to emerging scientific truths.

Joining the collaborative effort to scale up the sustainable alternative fuels market will help to present a clear direction of travel for policy makers to engage with and ratchet up ambition, with the backing of key industry players.

Modern PV technology dates back to the 1950s and the advent of the space program in the 1960s, but the concerted effort to develop this technology for industry and consumer use began during the oil embargoes of the 1970s.

All of the money from these groups can be directly traced back to the dirty energy industry, and all of the money spent on these efforts serves only to increase the industry's bottom line.

Now an investigation by two Environment & Energy (E&E) reporters has traced a network of industry fronts and astroturf grassroots organizations spreading across the southeastern United States, all united in attacking state laws or regulatory or other efforts to make rooftop solar panels economical to use by allowing customers to sell any surplus electricity back to the grid.

a suggestion for anyone following this site who happens to be directly or tangentially involved in efforts to say skeptic climate scientists are paid to operate under an industry directive to lie about the issue:» Fess up about not having any evidence over the last 23 + years to back that up.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

A Center report called Public Lands Enemies analyzes 132 bills part of an effort by 15 U.S. lawmakers, backed by extractive industries, to privatize our public lands — putting at risk hundreds of thousands of public acres home to diverse native wildlife.

Right now the fossil fuel industry and their powerful allies in government are backing a global efforts to hinder climate action.

To push back against this latest effort — yet another example of the unholy alliance between the fossil fuels industry and D.C. pols — an online drive spearheaded by 350.org is aspiring to collect 500,000 signatures opposing the bill.