Sentences with phrase «defense fund»

In addition, we have assembled legal defense funds for public employees facing legal costs (for example...).

The use of legal defense funds on the city level isn't unprecedented.

They mostly was focused on raising criminal defense funds.

Ultimately, each university must decide whether to allow its researchers to accept defense funds.

It refuses to ban the use of campaign contributions for the legal defense funds of elected officials.

Rory M. Christian, the director of clean energy for the Environmental Defense Fund in New York, said that Mr. Cuomo's proposed mandate was similar to one that California's Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed into law last month.

«At first they were silent on [forests], then they were cautious on [forests], so this is a good development,» says Annie Petsonk of the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington, D.C.. She's now looking closely at the proposal to compare it with previous Chinese plans.

«As the organization leading the event, Exodus International is free to make decisions they deem best regarding the event,» the Alliance Defense Fund said in a statement Wednesday.

Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote a Washington Post opinion piece in favor of natural gas development in New York state and awarded a $ 6 million grant from his philanthropic organization to the Environmental Defense Fund for work to minimize adverse environmental impacts from natural gas operations.

The immigrant defense fund makes up only a tiny fraction of the city's $ 85.2 billion budget, the biggest in its history.

«EPA deserves a standing ovation for today's historic action to protect Americans» health, strengthen our economy, and address the clear and present danger of carbon pollution,» Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund said in a statement.

A 2007 Environmental Defense Fund report found that, after Hurricane Katrina, homeowners insurance rates increased nationally between 20 - 100 percent.

The data was a «game - changer,» Hanlon says, in the Missouri State Public Defender Commission's relationship with the state legislature, which hadn't increased indigent defense funding in years.

Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D - Albany, spins the «Wheel of Justice,» created by the New York Civil Liberties Union to draw attention to the lack of defense funding for the indigent.

For example, Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman devotes much of her memoir to bemoaning the breakdown of the family.

Additional tips on how to include animals in your will is available from the Animal Legal Defense Fund as well as the American Bar Association.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund does not have an investigative unit, so it is imperative that you urge law enforcement and all other relevant oversight and / or regulatory agencies to fully investigate the facility in question.

California About Blog The Animal Legal Defense Fund works to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system.

Contributing to the Legislative Defense Fund now gives us the means to increase our advocacy involvement on your behalf and provides insurance to protect your business.

The Animal League Defense Fund's rankings of the top - five and bottom - five ranked states for the 2013 report (click on image for larger size).

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp said the agreement is important because methane is responsible for about a quarter of today's warming, and the U.S. and Canada are the world's second - and fourth - largest emitters of oil and gas methane respectively.

A 2015 study sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund found methane releases from oil and gas production and processing in the Barnett Shale Formation in northern Texas were 90 percent higher than what the EPA's Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions had estimated.

The Environmental Defense Fund estimates that idling wastes as much as 7/10 of a gallon of gas per hour.

You might also consider getting involved with organizations like the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Farm - to - Consumer Legal Defense Fund who are working toward true freedom of choice for American consumers.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a federal civil - rights complaint against the New York City Department of Education last week on grounds that the special test used for admission to eight of the city's selective public high schools is discriminatory — because it results in too few African American and Hispanic youngsters gaining entry into those schools.

Washington's spending bill increases defense funding, which likely spells wider profits for arms manufacturers, says Cowen.

This feeding causes the trees to die and dry out, making them into kindling [source: Environmental Defense Fund].

We have an animal law program, which focuses on introducing classes to law schools and helping student Animal Legal Defense Fund chapters start.

In the 1960s and 1970s, California's electric utilities had planned to build a string of new reactors and new plants that were ultimately killed by anti-nuclear leaders and groups, including Governor Jerry Brown, the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Fund (NRDC).

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Chris Meyer, a senior manager on tropical forest policy for the Environment Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. added that, «The countries and NGOs requesting the political signal to ramp up REDD + now have an explicit reference to it in the Paris Agreement.

The actor performed a very heroic deed, donating $ 5,000 toward the legal defense fund started by a Salt Lake City theater and pub that screened the Marvel superhero adventure against the laws of the state.

The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund provides legal support to scientists so they can focus on their research.

The Alliance Defense Fund announced the initiative last May as a way to challenge IRS rules that date to 1954.

A widely reported Environmental Defense Fund study released last year (Allen et al, 2013 PNAS) did that for about 190 gas wells.

Time's Up — an initiative and legal defense fund fighting sexual harassment and gender inequality — has called on Cuomo to open an investigation of Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance and his office after a story in New York Magazine revealed the alleged mishandling handling of a Harvey Weinstein sexual assault case.

A Climate Science Legal Defense Fund set up last fall has taken on a formal affiliation with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an established nonprofit group offering aid and advice to government whistleblowers and scientists working on environmental issues.

A New York judge has rejected a lawsuit brought by the right - wing Christian group Alliance Defense Fund against New York Governor David Paterson, aimed to thwart his directive that New York state recognize same - sex marriages performed out - of - state:... Read

It's a rip - roaring, thunderous disaster — a bona fide blast of emissions that may be a direct result of the company's own negligence, and it's quite quantifiable, too, as the Environmental Defense Fund showed with this nifty little counter.

The U.S. Department of Defense funds about half the program, in the form of equipment and personnel training; schools make up the balance.

At the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC), we maintain an Aquatic Defense Fund for exactly this purpose; contact us for more information on how to get involved.

«We're pleased to have reached a resolution of our action against Barkworks,» says Animal Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Stephen Wells.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC --(Marketwire — May 19, 2011)-- Humane Society International / Canada is calling on the Ministere de l'Agriculture, des Pecheries et de l'Alimentation du Quebec to take immediate action after a recent report by the Animal Legal Defense Fund ranked Quebec as the worst province for animal protection in Canada.

The Environmental Defense Fund goes as far as to say that if your car will be stopped for more than 10 seconds, turning off the ignition while you wait is the less wasteful tactic.

In advance of the rally, a new Community Defense Fund was set up to support the work of community organizations, which have typically received substantial financial contributions from unions.