Sentences with phrase «by federal experts»

The plan emerged from months of consultations by federal experts, independent scientists, nongovernmental organizations, members of the general public and international specialists who make up the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), a joint federal program of President George W. Bush's Committee on Climate Change Science and Technology Integration.

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Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

But analysts and other merger experts warn that the deal could be blocked by federal antitrust officials who worry that it could lessen competition.

In order to stimulate the creation of a series of Canadian venture investment funds, at little cost to government, CATA proposes that the federal government borrow a page from the Israeli play book, with the structure proposed by VC expert Stephen Hurwitz6.

Mr. Penn has been called upon for expert information by researchers for the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Aid and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as being sought after for conferences and private intensive seminars.

Federal prosecutors also said they expect to begin handing over copies of all the documents and other material they seized to Cohen and his attorneys starting April 27, with plans to finish handing over most of the material by May 11, with the exception of several cellphones, which are locked and likely have to be decrypted by experts at the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Among other things, Fed experts feared that, by substantially increasing the Federal Reserve's role in financial intermediation, the new facility «might magnify strains in short - term funding markets during periods of financial stress.»

The report is compiled based on information provided by a large number of businesses, community contacts, banks, economists, market experts and other sources outside the Federal Reserve System.

Campaign - finance experts say these cases are tricky to prove, and Washington politics — the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission and Congress are all controlled by the president's party — seem likely to doom any probe into whether federal laws were viFederal Election Commission and Congress are all controlled by the president's party — seem likely to doom any probe into whether federal laws were vifederal laws were violated.

The Federal Reserve may not have raised rates this month as many had anticipated, but, by and large, most economists and market experts say rates are headed higher, and sooner rather than later.

Thanks to the continued mismanagement of the economy by Federal Reserve «experts», a recession could arrive sooner than many people are expecting.

Nebraska's position was buttressed by various statements of the American Medical Association, which had previously supported a federal version of the ban on partial «birth abortion, and which after expert study had been unable to identify any circumstance where partial «birth abortion was the only appropriate procedure.

ALC undercuts the federal meal program, just as you say, and I've been told by experts that in districts in which ALC is dropped, participation goes up.

«The work done by organizations like the NEC is exactly the type of work the federal government should be investing in: it's cost - effective, informed by real industry experts, and helps save farmers» lives every day,» he said.

Each of the 97 petitions that have crossed the signature threshold so far have been carefully reviewed by experts here at the White House and in agencies across the federal government, and the majority have already been answered, with more coming every week.

Keith Raniere, the co-founder of the NXIVM corporation, a secretive Colonie - based organization that an expert has called an «extreme cult,» has been arrested by the FBI based on a federal criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.

«From my perspective and I can't tell you that I'm an expert on the election law, the request by the federal commission does not involve an election.»

So, it's no surprise that Stewart was among those infuriated by the federal government's decision that cancer is being excluded from the illnesses covered by the act, with experts insisting there's no firm medical proof that first responders's apparent higher incidence of the disease can indeed be linked to the time they spent at Ground Zero.

The deterioration of Penn Station's infrastructure that resulted in Long Island Rail Road commuters» «summer of hell» was caused by decades of underinvestment in Amtrak by the federal government and the railroads that use its tracks, including the LIRR, transportation experts said.

Tom Mailey, spokesman for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, said in a statement: «State technical experts are actively working with counterparts at HUD and Suffolk County on all details of the four critical sewer extension projects announced by Governor Cuomo this past October so that they qualify for a maximum of federal funding.»

These types of checks by border patrol agents, which experts say are legal under federal law, are happening more often and are sometimes captured by passengers on their cell phones.

Cuomo's idea to shift some state and local tax payments owed by individuals to a payroll tax paid by employers so many New Yorkers don't lose thousands of dollars under a new federal tax law is supported in concept by many tax policy experts.

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.

[NYP] • Some legal experts are arguing that federal prosecutors, by including more detail about Client 9 than others mentioned in the Emperors Club affidavit, were trying to «humiliate» the governor.

The Department of Environmental Conservation violated federal law by allowing manure control plans to be certified by the same private experts hired by farmers to craft the plans, and by keeping plans confidential from the public, according to a ruling in Albany this week by Acting State Supreme Court Justice David Weinstein.

If adopted on a large scale in New York and California, the measure would sabotage Trump's federal tax law by sapping its revenue stream while compounding federal deficits years down the road, according to the tax experts.

Identical statements from their lawyers Wednesday cited the scandal - plagued couple's desire to protect their 6 - year - old son by settling outside court — but experts say the real reason could be to shield one another from a potential federal probe.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's idea to shift some state and local tax payments owed by individuals to a payroll tax paid by employers so many New Yorkers don't lose thousands of dollars under a new federal tax law is supported in concept by many tax policy experts.

Experts note that colleges vary on how accurately and thoroughly they report charges of sexual assaults, even though all schools are required by federal law to report sex offenses.

She also supports the efforts of the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel, which was tasked by an executive order to provide recommendations to the Select Agent Program for optimizing laboratory biosecurity.

Georg Delisle, a senior scientist with Germany's Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), became a meteorite expert by coincidence.

Third, technical expertise is largely ignored or bypassed, while expert communities such as climate scientists are falsely and recklessly derided by the Wall Street Journal as a conspiratorial interest group chasing federal grants.

The paper is a survey of existing research and assessments by the federal government and other experts.

Written by Institute Associate Sonia L. Canzater, JD, MPH and Jeffrey S. Crowley, MPH, program director of infectious disease initiatives and distinguished scholar at the O'Neill Institute, the report was developed following an expert consultation held in Washington, DC, in September 2016 with diverse stakeholders, including hepatitis C medical and non-medical providers, patient advocates, epidemiologists, and federal hepatitis C policy and program staff.

Joiner has likely made this task more difficult by instructing trial judges that neither Daubert nor the Federal Rules of Evidence «requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.

Led by experts at the University of Birmingham and the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in São Paulo, the international team published its findings in Science Advances.

Goodyear told today's press conference that the government was implementing the recommendations of an expert panel, led by OpenText chair Tom Jenkins, which had been asked to review federal support of research.

Federal drought experts found that parts of California descended into «exceptional» drought last week for the first time in 15 years of drought mapmaking by the federal goveFederal drought experts found that parts of California descended into «exceptional» drought last week for the first time in 15 years of drought mapmaking by the federal govefederal government.

The federal ministry for research, representatives of the research organizations, and law experts have also developed recommendations in order to clarify the scope of action required by university administrations.

In a 1994 article in the Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Automatic Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification, the expert Hermann Künzel estimated that 20 percent of the fragments analyzed by the German federal police contained only 20 seconds of usable voice.

Under the IWRM Indonesia joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), hydraulic engineering experts of KIT built an underground cave power station.

In August of this year, federal health experts reported that four children in Minnesota and North Dakota were fatally infected by Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium easily passed through hand - to - hand contact.

With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.

Holmstead was dismissed by a federal judge as an expert witness in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency against Ameren Missouri, a coal burning utility.

DNA sequencing technology using off - the - shelf equipment devised by George M. Church at Harvard Medical School and collaborators at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis may help realize the federal goal of reducing that price to $ 1,000 by 2015, which experts say would make it practical to decode an individual's genes for routine medical purposes.

Another report by Kearns found that sugar industry advocacy groups influenced federal cavity prevention recommendations through strategies like getting sugar experts on federal panels concerning tooth decay.

Based on a long line of court decisions and guidance handed down by the federal Office for Civil Rights, which administers both nondiscrimination statutes — the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 — a court would most likely defer to educational experts, uphold standards supported by evidence of the SAT's validity, reliability, and technical underpinnings, and find flagging not to be unlawful discrimination.

Reimers will act as one of 30 representatives to the commission, which supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the federal, state, and local governments and from nongovernmental organizations on issues of education, science, communications, and culture.

The peer review, completed by 32 education experts from across the country, looks at each plan's strengths and weaknesses and also sees whether states are going beyond federal requirements.

Federal and state policymakers can promote principal career pathways, in which talented teachers are proactively recruited and intensively trained by an expert principal.