Sentences with phrase «by conservative think tanks»

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

Our research has been relentlessly attacked by conservative think tanks, politicians and newspapers.

(Beder, 1998) • Amplify the voices of contrarian scientists, (Cooler Heads Coalition, created by conservative think tanks) Dunlap and McCright, 2011: 151) • Convince people that «using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing.»

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

They maintain that the majority of «currently available ESA literature has been provided by conservative think tanks, whose explicit goal is to advance free - market school choice reform.

School privatization became a key part of the «devolution» of government, advocated by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute, Heartland Institute, and

Shaviv is a climate change skeptic and was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) hosted by the conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute.

A publication by the conservative think tank, The Cato Institute, argued that NASA's 1992 warnings of a potential ozone hole opening up over the Northern Hemisphere «were exquisitely timed to bolster the agency's budget requests» (Bailey, 1993).

He was a speaker at the International Conference on Climate Change (2009) hosted by the conservative think tank, the Heartland Institute.

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It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

According to the New Yorker, The Mercatus Center was first founded and funded by the billionaire conservative Koch Brothers, and the small think tank advocates environmental deregulation.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

Proxy Preview also highlights «a surge of proposals — some two dozen — largely filed by or coordinated by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative Capitol Hill think tank.»

Working out of an nondescript brick rowhouse in suburban Virginia, a little - known organization named Donors Trust, staffed by five employees, has steered hundreds of millions of dollars to the most influential think tanks, foundations, and advocacy groups in the conservative movement.

These two elections have shattered the myth cultivated by conservative politicians, newspaper columnists, think tanks and lobby groups for decades that promising to increase taxes is political kryptonite.

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Why would a website that claims to support The Labour Party and its aims publish an article written by the ceo of a conservative think tank where the general point of the article is, that so called Labour «moderates» must stay within The Party and continue the struggle to bring down Labour's elected leader?

In recent months, START - UP NY, a central part of Cuomo's massive economic development arsenal, has been vilified by some state legislators and conservative think tanks after it was reported the program created just 408 jobs across the state since 2014, leading the critics to question whether the $ 53 million spent on advertising and marketing was worth it.

Think tanks, pressure groups and Conservative activists are appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social issues.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is being targeted for budget cuts by lawmakers and an influential conservative think tank whose findings have helped shape the Trump administration's still - forming budget.

«The largest direct cash benefit in a typical low - income worker's public - assistance package is the Earned Income Tax Credit — pioneered in New York state by the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo,» noted McMahon, whose conservative - oriented think tank has at times praised the current governor.

A member of the free market think tank Reform, Browne has been associated with the more right wing and free - market orientated wing of the Liberal Democrats, and occassionally suggested as a target for seduction by a Conservative party looking to lure Liberal Democrat defections (more information at They work for you)

«The one cheering piece of news for Mr Cameron in the survey compiled by the New Local Government Network think - tank is that 46 per cent of Conservative Party candidates have a business background compared to just 18 per cent of Labour candidates.»

Prof Appleby, chief economist at The King's Fund think - tank who has analysed the latest figures, wrote in a paper published online by the BMJ: «The NHS must have been doing something right to earn this extra satisfaction — something even Conservative supporters have noticed, and something probably not unadjacent to the large rise in funding since 2000.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

A separate attempt by American Traditions Institute, a conservative think tank headed by members of other conservative groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Group and Cooler Heads Coalition, was equally unsuccessful.

Steyer also dismissed the idea of swapping the Clean Power Plan for a carbon tax, a concept favored by several conservative and libertarian think tanks.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

Several Democratic senators cited media reports that staffers on the Trump transition team are pushing a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank, to make deep cuts at DOE.

But he also said his decision to fraudulently acquire and then leak a set of explosive documents from the conservative, climate skeptic think tank was prompted by sustained attacks from climate deniers.

It is on the web site of Frontiers of Freedom, a conservative think tank funded by corporations like Exxonmobile.

Everything's Cool (Unrated) Cautionary documentary exposes the efforts of the fossil fuel industry lobby and conservative think tanks to manufacture an artificial debate about global warming in the face of irrefutable proof of the phenomenon provided by responsible members of the scientific community.

Based on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear on news programs, touting skewed data about public health issues and climate change.

The report by the Educational Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University is the lab's second critique of work by oft - quoted conservative think tanks.

Equally startling was the study's source: the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank funded in large part by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the nation's leading backers of school choice.

North Carolina's absenteeism gap mirrored national data found in the report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C.

Published by the Save Our Schools Research and Education Foundation, a conservative nonprofit think tank, the book characterizes the nea as «a militant trade union» fighting to perpetuate educational «mediocrity.»

The memo by Lewis Powell who President Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court within months of its release, inspired the growth of conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute and others who became strident supporters of public education reform and privatization.

Conservative organizations, think tanks, and other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.

Thanks in part to a board of education dominated by conservative reformers such as Andy Smarick of the American Enterprise Institute and former Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester Finn Jr. (the latter of whom presided over the think tank's initial activism against the Obama - era guidance), the Old Line State only plans to intervene when suspension levels for poor, minority, and special ed - labeled children are three times higher than that of other peers.

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

Andy Smarick of the Fordham Institute, a conservative nonprofit education policy think tank, this week noted that, despite the gains made by Houston and the Broad finalists in raising achievement, students» overall performance in all those districts remained lower than many would hope.

And in Ohio, a study by the pro-choice conservative think tank, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, financed by the pro-voucher Walton Family Foundation, found «students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

Analysis by the conservative think - tank found giving schools a 10 % increase, roughly $ 700 to $ 800 in per - pupil funding, only yielded a significant increase in one of 28 academic areas observed.

When the links contained in that paragraph come from a study by the Hoover Institution (a conservative / libertarian think tank with a decided bias), and George Will (a noted conservative columnist), you have to back away and ask what agenda is being served.

It's part of the Hoover Institution, a conservative and pro-business think tank funded in part by the Walton Foundation, and in partnership with Pearson, a leading developer of standardized testing materials.

In June, a third voucher study was released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice.

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.