Sentences with phrase «change legislation on»

This obligation would likely impose a need to discuss the financial and operational impacts of environmental protection and climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent legislation and proposed legislation in B.C. (see a summary of climate change legislation here), Ontario (see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken to account.
ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar pulled out of a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups pushing for climate change legislation on Tuesday, citing complaints that the bills under consideration are unfair to American industry.
Friday, the ag committee chairman, Representative Collin Peterson (D-MN), told Agriculture Online that he will work to defeat any climate change legislation on the floor of the House of Representatives until his «Renewable Fuel Standard Improvement Act,» becomes law.
But Mr. Lugar's more incremental approach is designed to appeal to moderate Republicans and a group of Midwestern Democrats who are nervous about the impact of broad climate change legislation on jobs in states that are heavily dependent on coal and manufacturing.
The Conservatives have launched a new poster campaign to promote their new bill to change the legislation on householder defence.
In a 2010 piece discussing the impact of climate change legislation on the U.S., Levi and Trevor Houser write that, «energy security is notoriously difficult to define and thus serves as the perfect weapon for attacking legislation.»
«Advance Illinois was founded to pass and implement game - changing legislation on behalf of Illinois» public education students,» said William Daley, Founding Co-Chair and Advance Illinois Board Member.
The content in this collection provides practical advice and clarifies complex legal issues, relating to industry trends and the impact of changing legislation on data protection and information security.
Literally today they changed legislation on caregivers ability to grow on a larger scale.

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She'd worked on climate change legislation and a national strategy for suicide prevention; she'd been a strong advocate for women's and LGBT rights.
The recent fiscal legislation caused negative, structural changes on both the spending and revenue fronts — making the task of keeping the debt in check much harder than it would have been even a year ago.
Legislation to do this would change the rules on immigration, allocating a larger share of green cards to people who qualify on the basis of education and skills and fewer to foreign relatives of US citizens and residents.
«What has changed is that while there used to be a modicum of congressional bargaining across major policy developments, the party in power now tries to pass legislation on straight party - line votes,» says Mr. Jillson.
Assuming no change in legislation — and Trump campaigned on keeping those entitlements intact — the Congressional Budget Office predicts America's deficit will expand to $ 1.34 trillion by 2026.
Andrew Wilkie's plans for legislation on poker machines could change the way gaming plays out in this state.
WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.
Any changes that can't be made on that basis — changes, for example, that simply redistribute money — will have to be made through legislation, if and when there is the political will to do so.
The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.
Proposed changes to the legislation introduced on Monday may actually lead to even more widespread coverage losses.
As more cities and states begin mandatory nutrition labeling on menus — so far New York City, Oregon, California and several major cities, with similar legislation pending in 15 states — Repole sees consumers making a major change in their eating habits.
Senate legislation on climate change is still being drafted, and a vote is not going to occur at least until April.
When the time came to vote on the changes to domestic violence legislation, the thought of looking into her fellow deputies» eyes made Pushkina physically ill.
The legislation would build on other changes to the QM rule that the CFPB announced last month, which would expand an exception for small lenders with under $ 2 billion of assets.
WASHINGTON The White House on Tuesday urged U.S. lawmakers to move ahead with legislation to help prisoners prepare for life after release, but stopped short of calling for broader reforms such as changing mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.
In May 2017, IAB Canada testified in front of The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics regarding proposed changes to the existing PIPEDA legislation.
«We need to respond to legislation changes on emissions... Towards the end of the decade, we will introduce hybrid cars across the range.
The potential differences in procedural rights are part of sweeping changes in legislation introduced by the Liberal government on March 29.
Enabling legislation allows for the spending on statutory programs without having to seek annual approval by Parliament, unless changes to the parameters of the programs are being sought.
The changes wrought by the proposed legislation will have a much bigger effect on some groups — especially those who get insurance through their employers and those on Medicaid — than estimated by recent analysis from independent healthcare policy experts such as the Brookings Institution and credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings
The government plans to release draft legislation on the passive - income change in the lead up to next year's budget.
The Tax Reform Toolkit is a series of blog posts featured on Eye on Housing that are designed to help builders and remodelers make sense of the changes in tax law as a result of the legislation passed in December.
Finally, this session I spent considerable time debating the changes that the Christy Clark government was making to the legislation on the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) file — this office has a short two - year history that resulted in the waste of $ 5.2 million.
So, not so much on how money helping (2:17 inaudible) but how the climate change affects the legislation and potentially affect returns.
WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.
Additionally, the legislation left in place a large number of legal requirements in the ACA, including the essential benefits package requirements, the prohibition on insurers denying or charging more for coverage for those pre-existing conditions, the limits on «medical loss ratios,» and other changes that do not have a direct budgetary effect.
Reconciliation instructions may also direct the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee to report legislation to change the limit on the public debt in accordance with the spending levels in the budget resolution.
The Progressives, who backed this legislation then but have now changed their minds, applaud this attack on themselves.
But, as the discussion above suggests, if Bill 12 were applied in such a way as to change the rules with respect to the batching of product on the TransMountain pipeline it would be necessary to examine very carefully if this created one of the two forms of prohibited conflict between provincial legislation and the terms of the National Energy Board Act (see the common carrier rules of s 71 (1)-RRB-, and any applicable Board decisions relating to the prorating of capacity on the TransMountain pipeline.
The Australian Parliament is expected to vote before the end of the year on a change to legislation which will enshrine same - sex marriage in law.
Congress passed encouraging legislation, and if in successive years we had built on that, real change in our culture and our economy might have occurred.
Many of the seasoned campaigners in the battles to change Ireland's legislation on social matters during the eighties and nineties were disturbed by the nature of this particular campaign.
When the religious try to impose their beliefs on others by attempting to change legislation and education standards, then it DOES become relevant to non-believers.
Since any change to that status can only be brought by state legislation, the task of church becomes more of a conscience raiser and an advocate for change of state policy based on its own faith perspective.
Legislation was passed in 2017 giving effect to these changes; it commenced on 6 November 2017
Abbott has also introduced legislation into parliament to axe Labor's Climate Change Authority, which advises the government on emissions - reduction targets, and to repeal its tax on carbon pricing.
The Danish Government has changed the national legislation on donations of non-animal food to charity, which previously made it difficult to donate from retailers to charity.
As with legislation at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in other words, to serve as «safety champions.»
I've been trying to make some changes in the way I eat and the way I approach food in general, as well as educate myself on the food industry and legislation regarding food, and I've found your posts to be really helpful and supportive.
On 26 June 2007 the UK government proposed an important change in legislation so that more fathers sign the birth certificate.
The changes in Nestlé policies and practices that have been achieved are attributable to pressure from the boycott and concerted work around the world on monitoring companies against the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and working for legislation to enforce these measure.
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