Sentences with phrase «change secretary of»

The claims made by Mrs Pryce, a respected economist, who accused the Energy and Climate Change Secretary of persuading «someone close to him» to accept penalty points for a speeding offence on his behalf are potentially far more damaging.

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During his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State Wednesday, former Exxon Mobil (xom) CEO Rex Tillerson said climate change exists — its future impact is just hard to predict.

And somehow those meetings lead to partnering with a 25 - year veteran of the CIA's Director of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at Skunk Works, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to start a company to explore «exotic science and technologies» and turn innovative ideas into world - changing products and services.

The announcement was welcomed by Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

The national security strategy the Trump administration released in December made no mention of climate change whatsoever, despite the fact Defense Secretary James Mattis has acknowledged it as a threat.

Analysts are watching for any changes to come with Bolton as national security advisor and a new secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who is awaiting Senate confirmation.

«I can imagine these changes would be really good for the morale for the Chinese diplomats at the foreign ministry at a time when the morale of the diplomats in the US foreign service is at an all time low,» Susan Shirk, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia, told Bloomberg.

Although the US military, Secretary of State Tillerson, and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis all say unequivocally that the US does not want or train for regime - change missions in North Korea, the president and the military have to do what's best for the country at any cost.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

China must accelerate the pace of economic reforms, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said after the first day of talks between the two nations in Beijing, but his Chinese counterpart warned change will take time.

The proposed change provides a path to the eventual sale and deployment of self - driving vehicles in California, state transportation secretary Brian Kelly said in a statement.

Last week, U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May gave a speech at the Conservative Party conference in which she said that, «When immigration is too high, when the pace of change is too fast, it's impossible to build a cohesive society.»

«Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions, we will be heading for dangerous temperature increases by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris climate change agreement,» Petteri Taalas, the WMO's secretary - general, said in a statement.

Secretary Perry, for instance, who presided over the greatest expansion of wind capacity in the country during his 14 years as governor of Texas, acknowledged in his confirmation hearing that climate change is real, and that «man - made activity» is at least partly to blame.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Chief of Staff John Kelly has reassured West Wing staffers that there will be «no immediate personnel changes at this time,» despite media reports that National - Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, among others, will be replaced.

Have matters really changed or is the new Secretary ahead of his constituency?

But the question is whether that dynamic is changing, with the departure of more internationalist voices within the administration like Mr. Kudlow's predecessor, Gary Cohn, and the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.

Founded by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 1997, the organization trains and mentors women leaders as agents of transformative change in economic development, human rights and political participation.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

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Canada's Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson, is leading this week's delegation.

Rae Kwon Chung, principal advisor on climate change of the United Nations Secretary - General, came up with the figures during

Interestingly, there's been far less turnover in Trump's Cabinet so far, with the only change being John Kelly's move from secretary of homeland security to White House chief of staff.

Commerce Secretary Mike Gill said some of the changes the agency is seeking this year are a response to the problems those reports highlighted.

In October 2013, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson, and business leader and philanthropist Tom Steyer, founded a new initiative to assess and publicize the economic risks to the U.S. associated with climate change.

On Tuesday, a coalition — including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Treasury and Goldman Sachs alum Henry Paulson — released a study on the economic costs of climate change.

He's always been tough, but he changed when he started to have national ambitions,» said George Arzt, former press secretary to Democrat Ed Koch, one of Giuliani's predecessors as New York City mayor.

In his opening remarks to dialogue, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said China's $ 347 billion trade surplus with the US was not the product of market forces and that the bilateral trading relationship needed to change.

On Wednesday, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, refused to say whether the tariffs would ultimately go into effect, adding, «I would anticipate that if there are no changes to the behavior of China and they don't stop the unfair trade practices, then we would move forward.»

The company, Canada's No. 2 pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse - gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$ 8 billion ($ 6.41 billion) project would increase climate change.

On Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that President Donald Trump is supportive of the bill, which is a notable change from his position last year.

In a joint interview with Marketplace on March 13, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, former president of the New York Federal Reserve and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke stressed that while the financial system is stronger now than it was before the 2008 financial crisis, that could change if certain regulations are rolled back.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. would have the smallest percentage increase, about 16 percent... Of the changes proposed in June by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, the one that would probably have biggest impact on profit is allowing banks to buy U.S. government bonds entirely with borrowed money.

The conference was seen at the time as something of a diplomatic triumph for the Rudd government, with Rudd highlighting Australia's new approach to climate change by formally ratifying the Kyoto protocol, personally handing the document to UN secretary general Ban Ki - moon, and using the conference to signal a new diplomatic shift towards Asia.

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I loathe their misrepresentations of job placement, I am angry that they won't change it even after I complained about it to various chairs / secretaries / Web designers there three years in a row, and I know for a fact that many of the other listings are just as bogus.

Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney and other governmental and military leaders have been under pressure to change the current policy which excludes homosexuals from military service.

There was some agitation in the WCC to find a new site for the assembly, but general secretary Konrad Raiser says that a change «would mean almost total loss of credibility» for the WCC among African churches (over seventy member churches are in Africa).

The changes, according to the Associate University secretary, are consistent with the recent trustee report analyzing the role of the chapel and of the dean of the chapel.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

When I saw who had written that, my hopes for an intelligent, or at least receptive, government response to the campaign against gay «marriage» then getting under way died within me: those words were written by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, and they appeared on the very morning she launched a «consultation» on the government's proposals to enforce a change in the legal definition of this ancient institution.

Rick Perry, the U.S. Secretary of Energy who infamously once said he would do away with the Department of Energy, told CNBC that he didn't believe that carbon dioxide emissions from humans are the main cause for climate change.

«From Masagana 99 and high - yielding varieties in the 1960s, to Masagana 6000 and Golden Rice today, it seems nothing has changed,» said Antonio Flores, a farmer from Mindanao and secretary general of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas.

USDA established the FVIAC in 2001 to examine the full spectrum of issues facing the fruit and vegetable industry and to provide suggestions and ideas to the Secretary on how the department can tailor its programs to meet the changing needs of the produce industry.

At present there is no legislation on the age limit of any tyres fitted to vehicles in the UK, so Frances has enlisted the help of Maria Eagle MP and they have met with Patrick McLoughlin, The Secretary of State for Transport to try to change the law on this important matter.