Sentences with phrase «change secretary commented»
The energy and climate change secretary commented on the Campaign to Protect Rural England's (CPRE) new blog in a response to a list of questions on energy, climate change and landscape.
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Commenting on the Welsh teaching union's decision to strike on October 5 over pension changes, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:
The energy and climate change secretary's comments were sparked by attempts to abolish red tape affecting conservation.
He clashed with the shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, who reminded the education minister about his comments in 2008, criticising ministers that had an ««it weren't me miss» attitude», and said that it was time to change this.
Washington (CNN)- Newt Gingrich is amplifying his call for Secretary of State John Kerry to resign over his comments that climate change represents the biggest challenge «of our generation.»
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to allay fears of a military confrontation with North Korea, defending Trump's comments but also saying there's no sign that the threat level from North Korea had changed and that Americans should «sleep well at night.»
Commenting on changes to A-Levels announced today by Ofqual, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «While there can always be modifications made to any examination system, the NUT believes that current A-Levels stand up very well when compared with qualifications internationally.
Commenting on today's announcement that the Government is to bring forward the effective date from which the state pension age will only become payable at 68, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union said:, «Over recent years teachers have already faced hugely detrimental changes to their occupational pensions, compounded by year after year of real term cuts to their pay.
Commenting on the launch of the public consultation on Michael Gove's proposed changes to the National Curriculum for ICT, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said:
Commenting, Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said: «The government has an opportunity to avoid legal and industrial action by ensuring officials honour ministerial promises to make the changes through negotiation rather than imposition.
Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, comments on the launch of the public consultation on Michael Gove's proposed changes to the National Curriculum for ICT.
The shadow energy and climate change secretary made the comment in an interview with Liberal Conspiracy in which he came close to endorsing gay marriage and branded himself a feminst.
Commenting on the primary school performance tables released today by the DfE, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT has consistently highlighted to Government the serious problems with the reforms to primary assessment, particularly the impossibility of comparing data for last year with previous years due to changes introduced to the testing system.
Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Michael Moore said the former home secretary's comments were a «devastating critique» of New Labour's attempt to change its policy from that of the Conservatives.
Commenting on reports of an announcement by the Prime Minister on the Conservative Party's plans for free schools after the General Election 2015 and on the Secretary of State Nicky Morgan's comments on the Today programme, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is clear that if elected the Conservative Party will continue its obsessive ideological focus on structural change.
Owens» and Hogg's comments come as six police and crime commissioners today threatened the home secretary Theresa May with legal action over her planned changes to the way the police are funded in England and Wales.
The Treasury secretaries» letter was among dozens submitted to the SEC from industry groups, climate change activists and federal agencies on the final day of the commission's comment period regarding changes to SEC Regulation S - K.
WUWT reader Jim Cripwell writes in a comment I'm so annoyed with this... From today's GWPF, I find http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-government-no-global-cooling-centuries/ I quote: «The Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change (Baroness Verma)(Con): The UK government has made substantial investment in research that concerns the likelihood and timing of future changes in global and...
--(i) In the event of a positive determination under subparagraph (C), the Administrator and the Secretary of Agriculture shall, after notice and an opportunity for public comment, by the same date jointly establish a methodology (or methodologies) to calculate greenhouse gas emissions from indirect land use changes that are attributable to the production of renewable fuels and that occur outside the country in which feedstocks are grown for purposes of calculating a renewable fuel's lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to determine whether the fuel meets a definition in paragraph (1) or complies with paragraph (2)(A)(i).
Of all of the vacuous, misleading and just plain stupid comments to emerge at the Sydney meeting of AP6, the prize must go to US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman who declared that he was confident the business sector would respond to climate change.
Posted in Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Events, International Agencies, MOUNTAIN ISSUES Comments Off on UN Secretary - General Releases Report on Sustainable Mountain Development Tags: Climate change, Secretary - General of the United Nations, Sustainable development, United Nations, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
Noting Secretary of State John Kerry's Earth Day comments regarding climate change and the potential hypocrisy of his approving the pipeline, Joe Romm at Think Progress puts the project in context:
The fossil fuel industry was deeply «unsettled» by comments from energy secretary Ed Davey raising the prospect that their assets could be rendered worthless by global action on climate change, according to a letter of protest sent to the secretary of state.