Sentences with phrase «efforts by local citizens»

The spit had been a quarry and gravel - loading pier and, after years of efforts by local citizens, land - preservation groups and state government, now is simply a place to walk a dog and enjoy thickening, albeit viny, woods and extraordinary views of the Hudson Highlands.

Not exact matches

Citizens who try to promote public - works projects through their local or federal governments find that their efforts are crowded out by pork - barrel projects benefiting powerful corporations.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

Jolted by the scale of the catastrophe unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, local leaders appealed to citizens to join in the rescue effort — and they've responded in droves.

It is ironic, to say the least, that Malloy and Pryor would begin the education reform effort by stomping on Connecticut's historic dedication to ensuring local citizens run local schools.

Identifying Future Trends Due to campaigns by local governments advising citizens to take all animal - safety precautions and efforts by shelters to prevent the return of adopted pets into the system, public conscientiousness is driving the demand for innovative identification options.

Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components: • Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution; • Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution; • Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and • Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

An important part of Justice Stevens» legacy will be his recognition that the Constitution permits, and in many circumstances demands, protection of efforts — whether by Congress or a local school district — to promote inclusion of all citizens in every facet of our nation's political, social, and cultural life.

The KIDS COUNT Network is a national and state - by - state effort to track that status of children in the U.S. by providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well - being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.