Sentences with phrase «based public interest group»

In Negin's words, «They're presenting themselves as a neutral, fact - based public interest group when they're not.»

The article quotes Elliott Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists who says, «They're presenting themselves as a neutral, fact - based public interest group when they're not.»

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In that year, the FCC released a programming statement in which they concluded, under a good deal of pressure from particular groups) that no public - interest basis was to be served by distinguishing between sustaining - time programs (those broadcast on free air - time) and commercially sponsored programs in evaluating a station's performance in the public interest.

When groups of citizens get together to accomplish purposes of mutual interest (from which they derive no profit), it should not be the responsibility of government to inspect, evaluate and approve their endeavors on the basis of supposed conformity to the prevailing notion of «public benefit» or «public policy» of the moment.

The commission was convened by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit, health advocacy group based in Washington.

The public campaign invites concerned and interested parents to get more information by attending parenting events, discussions, and conferences; offers group - based interventions for parents with specific interests and concerns; and provides in - depth treatment for parents who have children with serious conduct problems or who have serious problems of their own.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

State lawmakers raked in campaign cash from Albany - based fundraisers this year, with more to come, according to a compilation of the events by the New York Public Interest Research Group.

We exchange information and advocate for evidence - based alcohol policy as active members of alliances and forums for public interest groups

Blair Horner, the executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Terry's array of government jobs «raises the question of whether or not the personnel decisions were awarded based on the merits, or on political connections.»

Bill Mahoney, with the New York Public Interest Research Group points out that even though the case involves the New York City mayoral ballot, it's still fundamentally a state government based example of alleged corruption.

Russ Haven, general counsel for the New York Public Interest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of intPublic Interest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of iInterest Research Group, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of inteGroup, an Albany - based government watchdog group, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of integroup, said in an email Saturday that such financial disclosure gives the public useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of intpublic useful information about candidates» work, assets and potential conflicts of interestinterest.

The New York Public Interest Research Group is out with an exhaustive, numbers - based analysis of the 2012 legislative session this morning.

The New York Public Interest Research Group and the New York League of Women Voters issued a joint report today in Albany that shows current district lines are uneven based on population and voter enrollment, with one party being favored over the other.

«The Democratic donor base is found on the east and west coasts of the United States,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer - focused nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., released its annual report on state transparency websites in March 2015.

On that basis, environmentalists like Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group observed that, «These charges are essentially a tax to keep aging nuclear power plants online.»

Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said any funding should be distributed based on district population — not political juice.

But Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a Manhattan - based good government group, expressed skeptiGroup, a Manhattan - based good government group, expressed skeptigroup, expressed skepticism.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

Some of them are listed below: • The possibility to upload video content to your profile; • A fetish checklist and kinky search, so you can easily find your favorite; • The presence of live chat and live webcams, a rarity when it comes to such types of couples websites; • You can find a group and join it based on your interests, and you can also start a group as well, which will gather persons with the same preferences; • There are filtering options for the displayed content, when you are accessing ALT.com in public areas;

The many adult interest groups that live off our public - education system are already doing their best to co-opt digital learning for their own ends, and to ensure that nobody uses it to threaten their power, membership, or revenue base.

The report, released Nov. 16 by the New York City - based Public Agenda research group, found that low - income parents and those who are members of racial and ethnic minorities are more interested in an academic focus than are wealthier and white parents.

In recent years, countless advocacy organizations and interest groups have urged policymakers to increase appropriations to public colleges based on the view that those dollars would flow to students through lower tuition.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

Myers also runs a small, DC - based public interest law practice and consultancy that focuses on animal protection priorities, and he volunteers with local animal welfare groups in Washington, DC and Baltimore, Maryland.

Science has a tremendously important role to play in guiding environmental management, not as a decider, but as a resource for deliberative, evidence - based decision making by the public, policy makers, and interest groups on the challenges, trade - offs and possible courses of action in negotiating the environmental challenges of societal development (DeFries et al 2012).

In a lawsuit filed today, seven public interest groups — including the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)-- sued the Trump administration over this determination, asking the court to uphold the previous administration's science - based finding that the standards are appropriate and achievable.

When one environmental public interest group called a university professor to speak in opposition to the proposals based on his belief that development of this nature is inimical to Aboriginal culture, cross examination of this witness by a representative of the Nisichawayasihk Cree illustrated the professor's lack of specific knowledge of the Nisichawayasihk Cree, their culture and their physical environment.20 In the result, his testimony was given little or no weight by the Commission in its report.

«However, the campaign against the Jackson proposals is not based upon the public interest at all... this campaign is in my view inimical to the public interest — although it is very much in the interests of those groups who are making disproportionate profits out of the current arrangements.

For example in Ishaq v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2015 FC 156, (a case about whether a woman could wear her niqab during a citizenship ceremony), six public interest groups — including the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims — were refused permission to intervene, as the court determined that they could not advance their proposed arguments without social science evidence to back them up; nor could the court take judicial notice (facts and materials are accepted on a common sense basis without being formally admitted in evidence) of any of the facts necessary to support the arguments.

A group called Legal Community Against Violence, a San Francisco - based public interest law centre dedicated to preventing gun violence, has just released a comprehensive overview of U.S. federal and state laws on gun control.

Arguing in favor of the law banning lying is the sad irony that quite often those with their hands on the very levers of democracy, free elections and the right to vote — candidates, their handlers, public and special interest groups — don't trust the public to make the right decision based on an honest and robust debate over the issues, but instead find it incumbent to win by smearing the opposing candidate.

D.C. - based non-profit public interest group Public Knowledge also issued a protective petition today, asking the D.C. Court of appeals to review the rolpublic interest group Public Knowledge also issued a protective petition today, asking the D.C. Court of appeals to review the rolPublic Knowledge also issued a protective petition today, asking the D.C. Court of appeals to review the rollback.

• Read and make shelves straight to maintain alpha and numeric order and look • Provide information relevant to public service and answer queries • Retrieve items from the book drop • Access and providing books and data on need basis • Set up carts • Assist the librarian with work pertinent to inventory and reserves • Help patrons in locating information (books, periodicals, CDs and newsreels) • Order new books from vendors and replace torn books with new copies • Stamp existing borrowers» cards and issue new ones • Schedule use of library for interest groups for book talks etc. • Perform other clerical duties