Sentences with phrase «expanded use of alternative»

In her administrative order, Palin instructed the sub-Cabinet group to develop recommendations on «the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Alaska sources, including the expanded use of alternative fuels, energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, land use management, and transportation planning.»

In addition to compatibility problems with E15, expanded use of another alternative fuel (E85) has not occurred due to poor consumer acceptance and significant infrastructure and cost challenges.

The budget resolution states that the Senate remains «open to discussing methods to reduce these long wait times including — but not limited to — expanding the use of alternative project delivery methods» for NYCHA.

For many years, we have worked to expand the use of alternatives for young people, allowing them to avoid the negative consequences of criminal convictions while connecting them to the resources they need to avoid future justice - system involvement.

Environmental Impact and Energy Efficiency: Schools have made efforts to reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality and conservation, decrease hazardous waste production, and expand use of alternative transportation.

He was among the longest - serving AAA presidents, and played an important role in expanding the use of alternative dispute resolution in the United States and internationally.

Not exact matches

The Act expands the definition of foreign corporations subject to the rules, so that funds using alternative investment structures through foreign partnerships to avoid controlled foreign corporation status should review those structures.

With an expanding use of ICTs the energy requirements will only increase and will require planning and budgeting for electrification and such alternative energy sources as solar power.

You can save an absurd amount of money and drastically expand your child's wardrobe by opting for used alternatives.

2 p.m., the Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services will assemble to make decisions on bills directing the Department of Correction to provide a list of all inmates waitlisted for placement or transfer to alternative housing, to expand its report on «enhanced supervision housing,» to publish «their rules and regulations regarding the use of force by staff on inmates,» to post quarterly reports detailing the visitation of incarcerated individuals, the department's grievance system, and the demographic of incarcerated individuals in city jails, and to create «an inmate bill of rights.»

In other words, to get away from fossil fuels requires not just expanding alternatives but also discouraging the use of coal, oil and natural gas.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Determined to help his patients, he began investigating alternative therapies and has since expanded his training in many systems of healing — not just through Ayurveda, meditation, and stress management, but also using botanical, orthomolecular and functional medicine systems.

There are many substitutes that can be used and delicious alternatives and as gluten is not biologically necessary for good health, a gluten - free diet is a healthier one with an expanded variety of foods in it.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

They use ideas and knowledge to expand the minds of those they teach, and allow their learners to imagine new alternatives or options to solve problems.

Only when that has failed, should alternative measures be invoked, including state takeover and expanded use of public charter schools with consideration provided to hiring a qualified private contractor.

A new study out from the U.S. Department of Education looks at how eight unnamed school districts expanded the evaluation process to all teachers using a variety of alternative systems.

(District of Columbia) A new study out from the U.S. Department of Education looks at how eight unnamed school districts expanded the evaluation process to all teachers using a variety of alternative systems.

She has also made clear that she intends to use her platform to expand alternatives to public schools, including charter schools, online schools and private schools that students attend with the help of public funds.

Meanwhile, Merrill's Rich Bernstein has an interesting note out arguing that the Fed's 450 basis points of tightening «has not yet severely impacted the U.S. economy» because the expanded use of credit derivatives has created an alternative source of liquidity.

Today, FICO is also responsibly using new, alternative data sources outside of the credit bureaus to expand access to credit for more and more Americans.

In this new body of work, Saban continues to use the traditional elements of painting and sculpture to explore, expand and disrupt the properties of these media through alternative methods and processes.

Such policies should promote the use of non-combustion renewable energy, low carbon fuels (measured on a lifecycle basis), expanded transmission and smart grid technologies, alternative forms of transportation, and energy storage.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

Domestic U.S. oil and natural gas companies are pioneers in developing alternatives and expanding America's use of virtually every form of energy — from geothermal to wind, from solar to biofuels, from hydrogen power to the lithium ion battery for next - generation cars.

Since U.S. production capacity for all uses of activated charcoal — a conventional alternative to biochar — is 197,000 tons per year, the EPA's mandate could expand the effective market demand by roughly 50 percent.

The deal is set to be a benchmark for other Chinese issuers seeking alternatives to the usual source of bank loans for green investments, and is part of the Chinese Government's initiatives to expand the green bond market and promote clean energy use.

Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Ralph Goodale announced last August an investment of $ 138 million to improve and minimize the use of immigration detention, including expanding alternatives to detention and strengthening partnerships with the Red Cross and United Nations (which in 2015 issued a report saying that Canada's treatment of immigration detainees was cruel and unusual and resulted in arbitrary detention).

«The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act contains some favorable provisions for the housing industry, including expanding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's use of alternative credit scoring models; holding Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, loans more accountable; and improving access to manufactured housing, as well as easing credit through reduced regulatory burdens on smaller community banks and credit unions,» said NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall in a statement.

«It contains some favorable provisions for the housing industry, including expanding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's use of alternative credit scoring models and easing credit through reduced regulatory burdens on smaller community banks and credit unions.»