Sentences with phrase «centerpiece of president»

The proposed regulation is the centerpiece of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants, the source of nearly 40 % of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

The least - cost principle will also be part of EPA's quest for carbon dioxide reductions from power plants — the centerpiece of President Obama's Climate Action Plan and Goffman's current mission at EPA.

He said: «The Clean Power Plan is the centerpiece of the President's promise to the international community that the U.S. will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 % to 28 %.»

JUST how disastrous is the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Obama's efforts to reduce greenhouse - gas pollution?

The Senate does not support the Paris Agreement, which is why his administration prefers to not call it a treaty, and the centerpiece of the president's emission reduction commitments, the Clean Power Plan, is on shaky legal ground, which the United States Supreme Court recently affirmed.

The proposed regulation is the centerpiece of President Obama's climate change strategy and may become one of his defining policy legacies.

All of those attorneys general are Democrats, and as the group stood at a podium bearing the words «AGs United for Clean Power» they made clear that their agenda also extended to supporting the centerpiece of President Obama's climate policies, the Clean Power Plan.

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) is, as stated by NPR: «the centerpiece of President Obama's broader climate agenda.»

The Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of President Obama's climate agenda, «marked a turning point» as a sign of U.S. commitment to combat global warming.

No Child Left Behind, the centerpiece of President George W. Bush's domestic policy agenda, passed in 2001 with a provision that the law be revisited in 2007.

The centerpiece of the president's request is Preschool for All, a plan to invest $ 1.3 billion in 2014 and $ 75 billion over 10 years to expand high - quality early learning opportunities to all 4 - year - olds from low - and moderate - income families.

In fact, the centerpiece of President Bush's education initiative, the No Child Left Behind Act, is almost a carbon copy of the Texas model.

The program, the centerpiece of President Clinton's first - term K - 12 agenda, is intended to help states pay for a variety of K - 12 reform efforts.

To boost coal power, Trump has promised to dismantle the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change initiatives, regulations dubbed the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that would restrict greenhouse gas pollution from electricity plants.

The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's second term may be sweeping climate change regulations, and he isn't about to let Congress rein him in.

But documents provided to The Washington Post by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden confirm his demise in October 2012 and reveal the agency's extensive involvement in the targeted killing program that has served as a centerpiece of President Obama's counterterrorism strategy.

President Donald Trump's administration plans to kill the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate - change action.

«The «Muslim ban» was a centerpiece of the president's campaign for months, and the press release calling for it was still available on his website as of the day this Memorandum Opinion is being entered.»

The study, led by Stanford University economics Prof. Caroline Hoxby, is likely to fire up the movement to push states and school districts to expand charter schools — one of the centerpieces of President Barack Obama's education strategy.

Not exact matches

Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»

President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders are on the brink of achieving their top priority, centerpiece tax legislation, but only after a series of inaccurate claims and broken promises.

The president made fixing the trade imbalance with China a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, where he frequently used incendiary language to describe how Beijing would «rape» the U.S. economically.

Halftime The centerpiece of Super Bowl politics may be halftime performer Lady Gaga, who has been outspoken in her opposition to President Donald Trump.

The president did not address the issue in his public remarks, focusing instead on the power of prayer as a centerpiece of American life.

Since January of this year, nuclear abolitionism — or at least the call for the intentional pursuit of the goal of a world without nuclear weapons — not only received honorable mention in President Obama's inaugural address, but was the centerpiece of two speeches (5 April in Prague; 24 September at the United Nations) and a joint statement with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (1 April in London).

Nationwide, there have been years of discussion about how to improve school lunches; this summer, the debate heats up again as Congress takes up the reauthorization of child nutrition programs that President Obama has made a centerpiece of his domestic agenda.

It's not clear precisely what configuration would be acceptable to Degnan, but the rebuild is a centerpiece of Governor Andrew Cuomo's infrastructure agenda — he has made it the focus of several press conferences, some with Vice President Joe Biden, who famously compared the airport to a Third World facility.

BY BILL LOVE and ROBIN FORST Members of the Lower Manhattan Democrats (L.M.D.) were thrilled by the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act — the centerpiece legislation of Barack Obama's first term as president.

A 60,000 acre parcel of land is the centerpiece of Senate President Joe Negron's bid to stop polluted water from fouling rivers in his district.

Trump is poised in the coming days to announce his plans to dismantle the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's climate change legacy, while also gutting several smaller but significant policies aimed at curbing global warming.

The agreement, coming after several days of negotiations with little noticeable progress, was a measured victory for Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, who is rumored to have presidential aspirations, and who made his scorn for President Trump's policies — particularly the federal tax plan — a centerpiece of his State of the State and budget addresses in January and in speeches ever since.

Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Queens) said the «political climate» — President Trump made a vow to deport undocumented immigrants a centerpiece of his campaign — lends itself actions like Reddy's.

But President Obama made paid leave a centerpiece of his State of the Union last year, and over the past year he has deployed labor secretary Tom Perez and senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett to states across the country to meet with officials to discuss ways to advance city and state legislation to create paid leave programs.

Mr. Lewis, a former Senior Vice President at Walgreens, shared evidence of «return on investment» when disability becomes a centerpiece of a corporation's diversity and inclusion strategy to enhance workforce productivity and the bottom line.

From his first days in office, President Bush promised to make education reform a centerpiece of his administration, using the reauthorization of the ESEA as an opportunity to give the state - led accountability movement a dramatic shove forward.

The idea for the National Board, first articulated in a speech in 1985 by American Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker, was a centerpiece of the 1986 report of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession, titled «A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century.»

Not only was it the subject of major stories in Time and New York, but it was featured twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was the centerpiece of several days of programming by NBC, including an interview with President Obama.

President Obama recently announced plans to duplicate the Zone model in 20 other cities, making it the centerpiece of his «Promise Neighborhood» campaign.

President George W. Bush holds up the law as the centerpiece of his education platform and a critical step in making schools more accountable and students more successful.

Perfect for small business meetings or dinner parties, The President's Cup Library is an intimate room located on the first floor and is richly decorated with hardwood floors, fine leather furniture, a centerpiece fireplace and state - of - the - art technology.

The biggest one — the centerpiece — went to a collector on the board of the Whitney Museum, and another one went to a previous president of the Guggenheim's board.

President Obama's highly anticipated Climate Action Plan was released earlier this week, the centerpiece of which focuses on cutting carbon emissions from new and existing coal fired power plants.

President Obama hopes he can go there armed with a vigorous program, giving the U.S. some moral authority to call on other major countries to take strong action; his new guidelines for fossil fuels are a centerpiece of that program.

In his second term, will President Obama deliver the bold action needed to reduce the threat of climate change to the US and the world, by shifting the US economy towards a zero carbon future, and making the issue a centerpiece of US foreign policy?

Initiatives aimed at putting hydrogen fuel cell - powered cars on the road by 2020 «visualized by President George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address as the centerpiece of his plans to wean the country from fossil fuels «are taking longer than promised.

President Obama's «Blueprint for an Energy Strategy» claims as its centerpiece a Clean Energy Standard, which would require that an increasing share of electric power come from «clean sources.»

But the mere announcement of the initiative suggests that Energy Secretary Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, takes seriously President Trump's promise to make coal the centerpiece of his energy policy.

Another key point of contention will be the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama's effort to reduce climate change.

Parkland student David Hogg, 17, emerged as the centerpiece of the «crisis actor» myth, in part because his father is a retired FBI agent, allowing the «false flag» idea to merge with ongoing conservative attacks on the bureau related to its investigation of President Donald Trump's campaign.

It should be your first consideration, and the centerpiece of how you organize your hiring, says Les Rosen, an attorney and president of Employment Screening Resources, in Novato, California.