Sentences with phrase «change secretary tried»

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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.

The Liberal Democrat most under threat from the shadow of scandal this year was energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who faces a police investigation over newspaper allegations that he tried to dodge speeding points on his licence.

«When they tried to fix prices in California it resulted in an electricity crisis and widespread blackouts,» energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey said.

In a statement signed and copied to GhanaPoliticsonline.com by Semefa mawutor, CPP Regional Secretary and Opoku Nsiah Amaning, * Ag Comms Director, they stated that they are reliably informed that three people filed their nominations on Friday, during the Close of Nomination in the Afram Plains South Constituency and that they will not hesitate to sue the Electoral Commission if they try to change the candidate for the NDC.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a growth - model pilot that let states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.

As such, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is trying to promote policies that change this dynamic.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

A committee set up under the principal secretary to the prime minister is trying to streamline all the eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).

As Armstrong puts it when trying to explain to the UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband that he was asking «other people in other countries to sacrifice their lives» to preserve our «right to... fly, as many times as [we] want to», «One follows the other».

Former UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs David Miliband presented a rebuttal of the main points of the film and stated «There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific consensus, and that is part of scientific and democratic debate, but the science of climate change looks like fact to me.»

And they've just gotten their most public, most official shout out yet — Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has recommended that the world should try to have «white roofs everywhere to help fight climate change» — remarks that were carried in hundreds of news wires around the world.According to Bloomberg,