Sentences with phrase «bills by billions of dollars»

Efficiency investments have reduced the cost of doing business, lowered consumer energy bills by billions of dollars, and provided healthier, more comfortable spaces to live and work in.

During the lazy, hazy days of last summer, the Cuomo Administration approved a plan to hike New Yorkers» electric utility bills by billions of dollars.

Not exact matches

Bill Gates and some of the world's other richest entrepreneurs will join with governments from both rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

When the 2014 Farm Bill cut SNAP benefits by billions of dollars, 53,000 New York residents could have lost their food - stamp benefits.

But Capitol Hill is also widely expected to take up an emergency «supplemental» funding bill that would send tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars to help begin to repair the Texas coast using the Federal Relief Act, which allows the federal government to steer emergency cash to state governments hit by natural disasters.

WASHINGTON — The massive defense authorization bill that's making its way through Congress is an early Christmas present for Connecticut's defense contractors, containing billions of dollars for submarines, helicopters and other weaponry made by companies...

«Communities across the state will see their electric bills go up by billions of dollars to keep a dying, and unsafe, industry operating.

While the news media and public were distracted by the questions swirling around the future leadership of the Senate Republican majority, the Senate this week appeared to quietly fast - track a bill that would lock in tens of billions of dollars of unfunded lifetime health insurance coverage for police and firefighters.

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

June 28, 2011 • A joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that more than $ 1 billion of unused dollar coins are the wasteful byproducts of another failed congressional effort to replace the dollar bill in everyday commerce.

Fueled by billions of dollars in government and foundation funding and adopted as a cause célèbre by no less than Bill Gates and Colin and Alma Powell, dropout prevention has been gaining momentum.

Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a long public letter to Bill Gates that drew lessons from earlier philanthropic efforts in K - 12 education — including many billions of dollars wasted by the likes of Ford, Rockefeller, and Annenberg.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to pour billions of dollars into a high - tech idea that has been billed as the future of learning, but which critics see as a half - baked notion that could jeopardize student privacy and spread ideas despised by public school advocates.

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Following a path set by the airline and credit card industries, hotels are raking in billions of dollars a year in often - unexpected fees, and you might not even realize it unless you read through the fine print or scour your bill.

The vast majority who do includes Senator Chap Petersen, who made news this year first by calling for a repeal of the 2015 boondoggle that will net Dominion a billion - dollar windfall at customer expense, and when that bill failed (in Senate Commerce & Labor, ahem), by calling for a ban on campaign contributions from public service corporations like Dominion.

Here's the very good news from that report: Hitting the 50 - percent target is projected to add less than a dollar to the monthly electric bill of the average New Yorker — that is, add less than 1 percent to the cost of the typical residential electric bill — while creating benefits totaling $ 1.8 billion by 2023.

If passed into law, the Senate's 2012 Farm Bill would reduce the deficit by approximately $ 23 billion dollars through the elimination of some subsidies and the consolidation of programs.

With all the billions of dollars worth of permits being traded among polluters and markets, the bill aims to block market manipulations by requiring the largest sources of pollution — those with more than 25,000 tons of carbon pollution annually — to meet reduction targets.

• The cost to install the +6000 wind turbines planned for rural Ontario is in the billions of dollars — to be paid for by you in the form of higher electricity bills.

By enacting the «gatekeeper» and venue provisions, the bill begins to address the flaws in the patent litigation system that allow patent abusers, companies that do not produce or invent anything, to force our country's most innovative companies to divert billions of dollars away from innovation and job creation into litigation costs and hold - up settlements.

Under the Senate tax bill, middle - class families would pay thousands more, millions would lose coverage, and Medicare would be cut by billions of dollars.

The bill, which is expected to be signed into law quickly by President Obama, will help avert would could have been a serious credit crunch in commercial real estate, billions of dollars in stalled or cancelled transactions, and a cascade of other downstream impacts on banks, investors, workers, financial markets, and the broader economy.