Sentences with phrase «by an advocacy group long»

This petition is nothing more than another attempt to scare consumers by an advocacy group long - dedicated to attacking the food and beverage industry.

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Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

«Considering the decades - long culture of violence on Rikers, some of it perpetuated by staff, it's appalling that Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Ponte would invest in tools that have been shown to cause death,» Glenn Martin, of the advocacy group JustLeadershipUSA, told the New York Daily News in July.

«For far too long, the Gulf has been treated as a sacrifice zone by polluters,» Athan Manuel, director of the lands protection program of the Sierra Club, a national advocacy group.

However, imposing taxes on products used daily by American consumers and job creators is not the way to achieve those ends,» said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce, an advocacy group that has long been opposed to Trump's trade policy.

After my posts garnered attention (and a retraction) from the USDA, I was contacted by Rep. DeLauro, a long time food safety advocate, and asked if I'd like to work more on this issue along with dedicated advocacy groups like Food and Water Watch and the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention.

These are just a few of the restrictions outlined in a new water quality control measure touted by state Assemblymen Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), during a conference put on by Long Island Clean Water Partnership advocacy groups in Islandia Thursday.

The one - house budget resolutions being voted on Thursday by both chambers backs $ 45 million in funding for direct care workers, money that has been long sought for a campaign of advocacy groups pushing for the fundnig.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

Demanding that Gov. Cuomo pay up on the state's long - overdue $ 2.5 billion debt to New York City public schools, two education advocacy groups at a press conference on Feb. 19 released a report that broke down the money owed by Assembly and Senate district in New York City so that each lawmaker who is going to vote on the state budget can tell exactly how much money is missing from his or her district.

President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to «restore scientific integrity to government decision - making» is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies of the Bush Administration.

Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade - long study released earlier this week by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

A new report by a Harlem - based parent advocacy group calls on New York City charter schools to reduce their long waiting lists by «backfilling,» or admitting new students whenever current ones leave.

Three of the state's largest public education advocacy groups are leading opposition to legislation that would greatly restrict the use of long - term bond issues by school districts.

The lack of progress in the younger grades trickles up: More than half of English learners now in California high schools are «long - term English learners,» meaning they have been in public schools for six years without learning English, according to a 2010 report by Californians Together, a nonprofit advocacy group.

FBI agents misled officials and the public, violated their own policy manual, used poor judgment, and engaged in sloppy police work when they investigated certain left - leaning, high - profile, domestic advocacy groups in the years immediately following 9/11, the Justice Department announced today following a four - year - long internal investigation by the Office of the Inspector General.

The list of abuses heaped upon landlords in Ontario is a long one, despite the many protestations by tenant advocacy groups.