Sentences with phrase «favored industry interests»

S. 697, meanwhile, cleared a key Senate committee on a 15 - 5 bipartisan vote this past May, following a series of amendments designed to win over Democrats who worried that the bill favored industry interests and took too much power from state regulators.

Shaw replaced Kathleen Hartnett White, a lawyer and rancher who often was on the prevailing side of 2 - 1 votes favoring industry interests.

Not exact matches

Interviewing a few professionals in the industry whom you are interested in forming professional relationships with might make them feel inclined to repay the favor one day.

In fact, a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health finds that the EPA «has moved away from the public interest and explicitly favored the interests of the regulated industries,» and is on the slippery slope to what scholars term «regulatory capture,» in which a government agency makes rules in the interest of an industry it's supposed to regulate rather than the public.

For their first chunk of outside funding, Maddock and co-founder and president Jaspar Weir favored Navegar over five other interested American firms, because of its ties to the outsourcing industry in the Philippines.

Their favored legislation will allow them bypass rules put in place by localities upon the industry that protect local interests and quality standards and set insurance and training requirements,» the letter states.

The Hedge Clippers analysis argues that the massive sums from the hedge fund industry have helped create a system where wealthy individuals pay «nowhere near their fair share» due to tax policies that favor the rich, including a low tax bracket on upper - income earners and on «carried interest» profits, as well as the recent elimination of the «alternative minimum tax.»

Although the logic of investment favors taxation, interested industries typically press for trading markets rather than taxes.

Bero points to a large body of research by herself and others that shows industry - funded studies preferentially reach conclusions that favor sponsors» products or interests.

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

And the biggest obstacle to that, as our «Principles» paper states, is that the program «will be distorted to deliver subsidies to favored firms, industries, and other organized interests.»

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.

There were so many committed friends and allies from organizations all across the board all working together in a grand coalition to step in where this administration won't, and make common sense changes to our laws to favor the interests of the people over the greed of the fossil fuel industry.

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — solar industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.

You've asserted benefits you claim are related to measures by governments that favor the fossil industry against the interests of the rest of the economy.

Those «empty» maps favored the interests of the timber industry and its enablers in the state government, says Lukas Straumann, executive director of the Bruno Manser Fund, and that's led to showdowns with the Penan over control of their forest home.

A network composed largely of corporate lobbyists, front groups and free - market organizations whose immediate economic interests favor warming - causing fossil - fuel industries insist — despite all the evidence to the contrary — that current climate change hasn't been «proven» to be mainly caused by humans.

academic medical centers enable the pharmaceutical industry to covertly shape the medical literature in favor of commercial interests.

A consumer commenter strongly favored the Total Interest Percentage disclosure and some industry commenters did not object to its inclusion.