Sentences with phrase «director of watchdog»

But when it comes to climate science, there is no middle ground, said Rick Piltz, director of the watchdog group Climate Science Watch.

According to Gabe Elsner, executive director of watchdog group the Energy & Policy Institute, ALEC supplies «model» legislation to politicians at the state level who then push efforts to enact the laws as written by the group's utility and fossil fuel industry representatives.

«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.

Sealed «black cells» stall Hanford tank waste cleanup Scott Learn, The Oregonian, March 17, 2013 «One of the huge design failures is black cells,» said Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

DoE now admits that,» says Tom Carpenter, executive director of the watchdog group Hanford Challenge.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause New York, called the nonprofit, which predates the de Blasio administration but was not previously run by the mayor's wife, a «backdoor way to curry favor.»

Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said nonprofits run by elected officials are ripe for abuses.

Just Monday, Dick Dadey, the Executive Director of the watchdog group Citizens Union complained to WNYC: «We're hearing nothing from him and legislative leaders.»

They need independent oversight from the attorney general and comptroller and more transparency,» said John Kaehny, executive director of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

Agata will be the third executive director of the watchdog entity in its five - year history, and the third to have come to the panel from Cuomo's service.

«You've got to be kidding me,» Dick Dadey, director of watchdog group Citizens Union, told the New York Daily News.

«The whole scheme of collecting big campaign contributions from people with business before the city is very unseemly,» said Dick Dadey, director of the watchdog group Citizens Union.

Susan Lerner, executive director of the watchdog group Common Cause, called the matching program «half - baked.»

Jennifer Bevan - Dangel, the executive director of watchdog group Common Cause Maryland, said the city's position «raises significant red flags.»

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Cordray, 58, director of the CFPB, a federal watchdog of financial services firms, announced he would leave the agency by the end of November.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has been appointed by the corporate watchdog to sell a portion of shares in Sovereign Gold Company held by former Applabs Technologies directors which were found to have been acquired invalidly.

Padbury Mining and two of its directors have entered into a settlement agreement with the corporate watchdog over misleading statements made last year, but they could still face penalties in the Federal Court later this week.

The corporate watchdog has begun civil penalty proceedings against Padbury Mining and two of its directors over statements made last year claiming the company had lined up $ 6 billion in equity to fund construction of a port and rail network at Oakajee north of Geraldton.

Greg LeRoy, the executive director of corporate watchdog group Good Jobs First, isn't sure how much Georgia's bill will influence Amazon's decision — if it hasn't already been made.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney is, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNN, under consideration to become interim director of the federal government's consumer watchdog after current director Richard Cordray steps down later thiDirector Mick Mulvaney is, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNN, under consideration to become interim director of the federal government's consumer watchdog after current director Richard Cordray steps down later thidirector of the federal government's consumer watchdog after current director Richard Cordray steps down later thidirector Richard Cordray steps down later this month.

There are currently two interim leaders of the agency: current head of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, who was selected by President Trump to oversee the consumer watchdog until a permanent replacement could be found, and Leandra English, former CFPB chief of staff turned deputy director, whom Cordray had appointed.

«The takeaway from it is that even though the technology is getting better and pipeline companies are spending a lot more money on inspecting pipelines, there's been an uptick in failures over the last decade,» said Carl Weimer, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, a Bellingham, Washington - based watchdog group.

Meredith McGehee, executive director of the Issue One watchdog group, helped draft the Honest Ads proposals.

The concerns about potential misuse of data and digital marketing to undermine privacy extend beyond Cambridge Analytica to firms across the political spectrum, says Jeff Chester, executive director for privacy watchdog group Center for Digital Democracy.

The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a dose of liquid nerve agent as large as 50 - 100 grams, according to the director general of the international chemical weapons watchdog.

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

A director of Alto42 Ltd, a risk governance specialist company, and a board member for public transport watchdog, Passenger Focus, Marian is a former senior Army officer and was a chair of the sustainable transport charity Sustrans.

said Blank, director of policy analysis for the federation, a government watchdog group.

«Obviously, time will tell, but we're very optimistic about Forrest Claypool's ability and intent to reform the Park District,» says Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, the civic watchdog agency that awarded Chicago's parks a dismal D - plus grade this year.

DeFrancisco, a Republican candidate for governor, called for the dismissal of Seth Agata, the executive director of the state's lobbying and ethics watchdog panel, JCOPE.

Susan Lerner, director of Common Cause, the watchdog group that's criticized de Blasio's envelope - pushing fund - raising practices, said de Blasio's use of the loophole — as well as having a campaign treasurer also serve as his campaign - funded lawyer — is both a dodge and a conflict of interest.

Brandon Muir, executive director of the Reclaim New York Initiative, a government watchdog that has criticized Nassau's ethics and fiscal policies under Mangano, said Curran faces an «uphill challenge» in ridding the county of patronage and nepotism.

«Our view is that the government should, as the normal course of business, put contracts out to bid,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit government watchdog organization.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause NY, a government watchdog group, said replacing the town's social media accounts with Saladino's was «completely inappropriate.»

Whether it its being a watchdog for tenants, fighting for children and families, or leading the push for criminal justice reform, she is concentrated on the issues of importance to our City,» said Anna Brower, James» communications director.

«If you serve in a position of trust for an ethics watchdog or committee, then you have to lead by example,» said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.

Barry Sample, the governor's former deputy director of state operations, is the newest Cuomo appointee to the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, according to the ethics and lobbying watchdog's website.

Patronage jobs for relatives, personal holiday cards printed at taxpayer expense, and lavish weddings for the fair director's daughters were among the shocking examples of «flagrant, chronic abuse» detailed yesterday by a watchdog's probe into mismanagement at — of all places — the Great New York State Fair.

«At that price, it's very doubtful that New York taxpayers will ever break even,» said Greg Leroy, executive director of the nonprofit watchdog Good Jobs First, which tracks corporate subsidies in economic development.

Jamison Dague, director of infrastructure studies for the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said the MTA has long wanted to abolish some of the work rules.

John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a watchdog group, questioned the potential returns on that investment.

It's a cockamamie way of doing the public's business,» said John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany, a watchdog group.

«It undermines democracy when there is no real challenger to step up to run against incumbents,» said Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog.

«The end of session is affectionately known as Whac - a-Mole season,» said Blair Horner, the legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, a consumer and environmental watchdog group.

Susan Lerner, the executive director of Common Cause New York, another government watchdog, acknowledged that finding education experts in New York City with no connections to Mr. Bloomberg would be challenging.

Matt Rothschild, new executive director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group, also is irate.

Metzger is also the director of Citizens for Local Power, a local not - for - profit organization that provides a voice for community interests at the New York State Public Service Commission, serves as a local utility watchdog and promotes a more equitable, affordable, locally based clean - energy economy.

Kimberly Mitchell is director for the Everglades Trust, the political watchdog arm of the Everglades Foundation for environmental research.

Ten months after departing JCOPE, Letizia Tagliafierro has a new job working for Gov. Andrew Cuomo: The former executive director of the ethics watchdog panel will serve as the governor's special counsel for public safety.

«When one interest group who happens also to be a campaign contributor is favored over another, it's quite reasonable to question the motivation behind the policy change,» said Dick Dadey, the executive director of Citizens Union, a watchdog group.