Sentences with phrase «conservative think tanks who»

Not exact matches

Donors Trust's board of directors, which ultimately decides who gets funded, reads like a conservative who's - who directory: Arthur Brooks, president of American Enterprise Institute; John Von Kannon, vice president of the Heritage Foundation; William Mellor, president of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal firm; and Kris Alan Mauren, director of the Acton Institute, a Michigan - based conservative think tank.

Nonetheless, denial of that evidence is a sizable, well - financed industry Conservative think tanks have produced scores of studies that try to discredit the data, the methodology and, not least, the motives of those who report the obvious.

We also have more Tory MPs who are interested in policy than ever before and there are more think tanks producing policies consistent with Conservative philosophy.

Republicans are also hopeful that Vice President - elect Mike Pence will help bridge the gap between the senator and the White House: Flake and Pence, who both previously ran conservative think tanks and served in the House together, are personal friends.

«The entire point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

Former State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who is now a fellow at the Demos think tank and NYU's Wagner School, calls it «the case of the dueling commissions», and he says it's all about the governor's 2014 re-election campaign, where Cuomo is seeking a fiscally conservative platform.

Prof Appleby, chief economist at The King's Fund think - tank who has analysed the latest figures, wrote in a paper published online by the BMJ: «The NHS must have been doing something right to earn this extra satisfaction — something even Conservative supporters have noticed, and something probably not unadjacent to the large rise in funding since 2000.

E.J.McMahon of The Empire Center, a conservative think tank, said that it is generally expected that there will be tension between a Comptroller and Governor and that it is unsurprising that Cuomo, who has a reputation for «ad hominem denunciation» over «the substantive argument,» is feuding with someone charged with monitoring him.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

«The conservative think tank Heartland Institute is suggesting scientists, business leaders and lawyers who are skeptical of mainstream climate science for the climate «red team» U.S. EPA boss Scott Pruitt says he wants to assemble.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

Fieler, a prominent social conservative who has spent big in the past to fight gay marriage, said he has directed his organization to spend $ 500,000 organizing the Common Core opposition and connecting it to his think tank's long - standing drive for school choice.

Even the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education policy think tank that advocates school - choice, said of the amendment, «This provision will help a relative handful of affluent families who are already choosing private schools.

The memo by Lewis Powell who President Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court within months of its release, inspired the growth of conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute and others who became strident supporters of public education reform and privatization.

«There's a total mismatch,» said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, who served on K12's board of directors until 2007.

And in Ohio, a study by the pro-choice conservative think tank, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, financed by the pro-voucher Walton Family Foundation, found «students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

* Mike Petrilli, author and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, who is also a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and one of five executive editors of the publication Education Next.

One of the staunchest proponents of Common Core is Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think - tank, who has also received Gates Foundation funding for the support of Common Core.

«In addition to giving grants to right - leaning think tanks like the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, the Walton foundation hired an education program officer who had worked at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative business - backed group.»

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.

New Mexico is an «outlier» for not opting to suspend the ratings, said Michael Petrilli, of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank, who supports the Common Core.

In Ohio, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice, released a study of that state's program which found: «Students who use vouchers to attend private schools have fared worse academically compared to their closely matched peers attending public schools.»

There were many other people who testified that day from AARP, its relatively new but strong foe AAWP (w - > Working), and various conservative and liberal think tanks, but no one said anything valuable that the Chief Actuary didn't already say: without changes to benefits or taxes (contributions, haha), payment skipping would become regular.

Some of the individuals who pursued CRU scientists for access to data in the months leading up to Climategate may be seen in this light; they had no connections with the oil industry or conservative think - tanks.

Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.

There are those who favor prioritizing the top - left quadrant (conservative think tanks), the top - right quadrant (Breakthrough Institute), and the bottom - right quadrant («energy democracy» fans, the Sierra Club).

Others are conservative think - tanks who take oil money and spew Climate Trutherism.

The report, published last week by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), a think tank that has campaigned against wind farms, will give ammunition to sceptics, especially within the Conservative Party, who believe the cost of subsidies to the wind industry is far too high and that the growing number of turbines are blighting the countryside.

Dr Travis Coan, of the University of Exeter, and Dr Constantine Boussalis, of Trinity College Dublin, analysed 16,000 articles, reports, transcripts, letters, reviews and press releases from the websites of 19 conservative think tanks, mainly based in the U.S, who work on climate change.

«A group of climate skeptics who weighed in on climate lawsuits in California revealed their recent funding, and court documents show their donors are a mix of fossil fuel companies and conservative think tanks.»

The Heartland Institute is a conservative leaning think tank funded by a number of business donors, and the main funder of the conference is a local libertarian millionaire who just happens to want a bit of openness and honesty in the debate on AGW.

A conversation with Ted Nordhaus, the head of a green think tank who thinks that environmentalism is dead, nuclear energy and gas are alive, and maybe the conservatives had it right all along.

Strange to say, the author of this happy thesis is not a steely - eyed economist at a conservative Washington think tank but a vegetarian, backpack - toting academic who was a member of Greenpeace for four years.

And at agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department, Trump transition teams have brimmed with conservative think tank personas who have a history of questioning the science of climate change and standing up for fossil fuels.

A study of major U.S. newspapers found that up to 1994, climate scientists who were highly respected by their peers were cited considerably more frequently than the skeptics associated with conservative think tanks, but after 1995, as the conservatives grew more active, newspapers cited the two groups about equally.

McCright (2) defines climate contrarians to be those who vocally challenge what they see as a false consensus of mainstream climate science through critical attacks on climate science and eminent climate scientists, often with substantial financial support from fossil fuels industry organizations and conservative think tanks.

Long before they supplied millions of dollars to conservative think - tanks who misinformed the public about climate science, Exxon's own scientists informed them of the scientific consensus that fossil fuel burning would cause disruptive climate change.

Lisa Waller's research found that, in the bilingual education debate, mainstream news media were more likely to seek out spokespeople who represented conservative think tanks, such as Helen Hughes or Noel Pearson, than Indigenous policy advocates or academic experts.