Sentences with phrase «defense funds»

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

Start public campaign financing, close the LLC loophole in campaign finance regulations, and ban the use of campaign contributions for the legal defense funds of elected officials.

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

«This opinion closes the door on using legal defense funds as a means for influence peddling.»

Melissa Etheridge will bring her powerful voice to Central New York to raise legal defense funds for protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Financial support for the new photonics institute comes from Department of Defense funds that existed before Congress approved the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act of 2014.

«It's important that campaign contributions be used for campaigning, not legal defense funds,» said Blair Horner, NYPIRG's executive director.

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

Donations to legal defense funds for public officials usually are capped at a certain amount.

The budget would also zero out the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account and cap exempt nondefense spending, placing the defense funds in the base defense category and eliminating the nondefense OCO funds.

It was not immediately clear what programs would benefit from the defense funding boost.

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.

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

The $ 600 - million foundation actively contributes to a group of organizations that includes Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, World Wild Life Fund and Greenpeace.

The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

Time's Up includes a legal defense fund, made up of $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women fight sexual misconduct.

The Environmental Defense Fund has been doing the most level - headed and intellectually honest work on this issue, and the EPA has been working toward rules that would force the industry to reduce leakage from natural gas infrastructure.

«We are on the cusp of a transformative moment,» Nathaniel Keohane, vice president for climate for the New York - based Environmental Defense Fund, told reporters.

But privately, officials debated whether this was a proper use of the legal defense fund, which was originally intended to help pay for things like vote recounts, according to news reports.

Zzyym's lawsuit, filed last year by the LGBT rights legal firm Lambda Legal Defense Fund in federal court in Denver, argued that the policy of requiring either a male or female designation on passport applications violated due process and equal protection rights for intersex people.

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

Washington's bipartisan spending bill significantly increases defense funding, a provision that likely spells wider profits for the country's arms manufacturers.

Republicans in the House of Representatives were told at a Monday night meeting that the stop - gap measure would extend funding through March 23, along with a year of defense funding and two years of funding for community health centers, lawmakers said.

Examples the actress suggested included the Time's Up's defense fund, which provides a forum for women who may not be able to afford representation, and getting laws passed to improve workplace morale.

She served for 15 years along with Hillary Clinton on the board of the Children's Defense Fund and was the longest - serving HHS secretary under Bill Clinton.

We spoke with the head of that coalition, a student who feels being Asian hurt his college application, and an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer to try to settle the debate.

Additionally, she Chairs the University of California African - American Advisory Council, serves as a Board Member for the National Children's Defense Fund and the Bay Area Economic Council Institute, is a fellow for the MIT Community Innovators Lab, and formerly was Director for the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve System.

The company claims it was not, however, people protested Uber by deleting their accounts and its app, despite the creation of a legal defense fund for affected drivers that would also pay them even if they're unable to work.

In this op - ed, Environmental Defense Fund's Dick Munson explains how FirstEnergy's federal bailout request poses a serious threat to competitive, clean energy, and why FirstEnergy's attempts to block the sun and stop the wind present an existential threat.

Tina Tchen is building up the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which already has more than 2,000 potential clients.

Uber has set aside $ 3 million for a legal - defense fund to support drivers, offering help with translation services and round - the - clock telephone access to legal aid.

As head of EPA's Office of Policy, Pruitt chose Samantha Dravis, formerly of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) and its affiliated Rule of Law Defense Fund, both of which Pruitt has previously chaired.

«Overall, this is the biggest year - to - year increase in defense funding in 15 years — a $ 61 billion increase over FY2017 enacted levels.»

To donate to the TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund, click here.

Tax - deductible donations made TODAY will go to the TIME»S UP Legal Defense Fund through a partnership with GoFundMe's Direct Impact Fund, a 501 (c) 3.

Uber wouldn't provide comment beyond Kalanick's statement that announced the company's plan to compensate drivers affected by the immigration ban and create a $ 3 million legal defense fund for drivers.

Uber said today it would create $ 3 million defense fund to help cover legal, immigration and translation costs for drivers affected by the immigration ban, with Kalanick further clarifying his stance on the ban and calling it «wrong and unjust.»

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

The Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian civil rights group, and the Discovery Institute, a proponent of intelligent design, are supporting Coppedge's lawsuit.

The ethos of dependency requires direct attention of the kind given by the Urban League and the Children's Defense Fund in their media campaign to discourage young ghetto males from fathering children they can not support.

The mainline's primary partner in this political advocacy is the Children's Defense Fund (CDF).

I hope people open their eyes and realize they're being duped and their 10 % is going to the defense fund of all those priests still awaiting trial on molestation charges.

If recent claims [1] made against Planned Parenthood by the Alliance Defense Fund («ADF») and the American Center for Law and Justice («ACLJ») are accurate, a simple answer solves a prior mystery.

If recent claims [1] made against Planned Parenthood by the Alliance Defense Fund («ADF») and the American Center for Law and Justice («ACLJ») are...

Christian dispensationalists have contributed significantly, together with Jews, to a temple fund, or to a legal defense fund for such terrorists.

The Day of Truth was started by the conservative group Alliance Defense Fund, Chambers said, but the group transferred primary responsibility for the event to Exodus this year.

Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an annual event organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund), flaunts an IRS tax code restriction stating that churches risk their tax - exempt status if they endorse specific political candidates or positions on ballot issues.

Chambers said he contacted Alliance Defense Fund last week about his decision and that it's unclear whether that group will continue to sponsor the Day of Truth.

Such conflicts often arise in relation to social - action issues, as seen in the disagreement over the 1971 disbursement of United Presbyterian monies for the Angela Davis defense fund.