Sentences with phrase «federal power authorities»

Many of the states with cheaper electricity rates than Iowa receive a lot of cheap power in the country is provided by hydro plants controlled by federal power authorities.

Not exact matches

While currently blocked by the federal judiciary, the group says the Clean Power Plan should be redrawn to address concerns about regulatory overreach and the possibility of infringing on state authority.

The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee this week will consider legislation that will provide bankruptcy powers to Puerto Rico while subjecting it to the authority of a federal oversight board.

Just over half (53 %) are of the view that the ultimate authority rests with the federal government, while just under half (47 %) say provincial governments should have the power to «veto» projects in their jurisdictions.

Or, in Traversian: «The trend line from Pierre Trudeau to Stephen Harper has been steady: Influence over the amorphous, frustratingly horizontal federal machinery concentrates power in the Prime Minister's Office where issues that matter are managed with command - and - control authority.»

The organization... [will] make the argument that... the federal courts... are the final authority on issues important to progressives such as immigration, abortion, gay rights, social policy, the environment and corporate power, to name a few.

And while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

Although the power of Congress to forbid slavery in federal territories was well - established, Sandford argued that slaves were private property of the sort protected by the Constitution against deprivation without due process of law, and that therefore Congress lacked any constitutional authority to ban slavery in the territories.

According to the standard account of the matter, the power of judicial review — that is, the authority of the federal judiciary to invalidate acts of Congress and the President when they are deemed to be unconstitutional — came to be entrenched in our law by the acceptance, tacit or otherwise, of the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison.

Furthermore, states can't give their police the authority to arrest immigrants without warrant for being removable, because that's giving them more power than federal immigration officers (who normally need a warrant), and undermines the fact that Congress normally requires a warrant before making those arrests (increasing federal discretion).

Instead, federal government comprises separate but coordinate institutions sharing in authority and in power.

Titles like the Ooni of Ife, Aareonokankafo of Yorubaland, Deji of Akure, Bobagunwa ilu Egba, and Alaafin of Oyo bring a great deal of respect, influence, and power in certain Nigerian communities.6 According to Nigerian scholar Ali Yahaya (2005: 242), traditional authorities «exercise considerable influence and are consulted by the federal, state, and local governments.»

One week after federal authorities announced they had uncovered two suspected bribery plots in Queens and the Bronx, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a legislative initiative designed to give the state's 62 district attorneys more power to prosecute corruption cases.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

«Chief Edwin Clark lacks the moral authority to lead a discussion on the so - called «re-structuring» of the Nigerian federation, at this critical point in the country's history; given the fact that, throughout the six years his «son», former President Goodluck Jonathan, was in power the elder statesman kept mute and actively participated in the economic dismemberment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

QUEENS — Power - hungry state Sen. Malcolm Smith schemed with a Queens councilman and GOP bosses to build a «corridor of corruption» in an ambitious attempt to line their pockets with cash and get him elected the mayor of New York City, federal authorities said Tuesday.

«About ($ 72 million) in federal money plus additional money from the New York Power Authority settlement and Honeywell has contributed to a river that is much cleaner than it was 30 years ago.

Under Supreme Court constitutional interpretation, since individual states never had the original sovereign authority to unilaterally change the terms and conditions of service of federal officials agreed to and established in the Constitution, such a power could not be «reserved» under the Tenth Amendment.

A source tells Newsday federal investigators have sought communications from high - ranking Cuomo officials, including Bill Mulrow, the governor's secretary and top adviser; Jim Malatras, the director of state operations; and Gil Quinones, head of the New York Power Authority.

The Long Island Republican, who faces corruption charges after he surrendered to federal authorities last Monday, has a tenuous hold on power, however.

Even before the storm, the power authority had been operating under a federal court order for Clean Air Act violations and was reported to have cheated its ratepayers for many years.

Members of the JFREJ say they there should be greater limits to the NYPD's power to conduct random stops and searches, and they called on de Blasio to further limit the city's interaction with federal immigration authorities.

As the governor conferred with his top staff members, federal law enforcement authorities say his then - executive deputy secretary, Joseph Percoco, and a former longtime friend and adviser, Todd Howe, were secretly exploiting their political muscle in a bribery scheme that would help the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, purchase pollution «emission reduction credits» from New York state.

Thus, by virtue of Section 88 (1) & (2) of the 1999 Constitution the National Assembly shall have power to direct or cause to be directed investigation into the conduct of any person, authority, ministry or agency of the Federal Government subject to the provisions of the constitution,» Sagay said.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

(Only federal authorities have the power to license or unlicense nuclear facilities, but states can make it difficult for plants to operate profitably through aggressive regulation.)

The Buffalo and Erie County Standing Committee is funded by the New York Power Authority (NYPA) as part of a settlement agreement related to the 50 - year federal operating license received by NYPA for the Niagara Power Project in 2007.

The mayor is the subject of a multipronged investigation by state and federal authorities over an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to oust Senate Republicans from power.

The two began pushing for a federal Rails to Trails project, trying to rally support from Suffolk County, the towns and the Long Island Power Authority, which owns the right - of - way where the tracks had run.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which normally would help pay for storm recovery, warned that it might refuse to cover any costs if the contract between Whitefish Energy and the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, known as Prepa, was found to be improper.

Mr. Calone of Stony Brook, is a businessman and Harvard Law School - trained attorney, a former federal prosecutor, former trustee of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and, for seven years, chairman of the Suffolk County Planning Commission.

The 10 - kilowatt wind turbine was installed in 2010 at an initial cost of around $ 18,000 — the price after federal and Long Island Power Authority grants were factored in.

Gillibrand is promoting a bill, which has bi-partisan sponsorship, that she says would give federal authorities the power to crack down on those who acquire guns, move them across state lines and sell them illegally.

Mr. Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, is also listed on the Jcope filings as earning between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000 from Chris Pitts L.L.C., which appears to be related to a Democratic operative in Connecticut who has worked for Competitive Power Ventures, one of the entities being investigated by federal authorities.

In a report out this week, the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit regulatory authority charged by the federal government with oversight of reliability in U.S. power systems, found that it still lacked adequate analysis to know whether the plan's targets are achievable.

In addition, Barr's case offers a rare glimpse into the practices of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), an obscure agency within the White House that wields vast power over the entire federal bureaucracy through its authority to vet recently hired workers.

To do this as an educational policy is within the broad discretionary powers of school authorities; absent a finding of a constitutional violation, however, that would not be within the authority of a federal court.

When the federal government arrogates to itself too much power from the states (e.g., NCLB, Race to the Top), or when states impinge on local authority (e.g., curricular or staffing requirements), the policy disequilibrium results in political disquiet.

That power has steadily increased over the decades, especially in recent years, as federal initiatives like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top have pushed states to assume more authority over education.

The secretary will have virtually no authority to enforce the meager «requirements» that remain, and the federal government will have no power whatsoever to require any consequences for schools that fail to lift student achievement or close achievement gaps.

For understanding the change in federal policy with the new act, the two most relevant policy attributes are authority and power.

Alabama's Consolidated State Plan should acknowledge Alabama's protection from federal control restored under ESSA, and reflect this statutory return of power to Alabama's education authorities throughout our Plan.

Like some other Republican colleagues, he wishes to return power to local authorities; additionally, he wants federal higher education policy downscaled.

The cabinet in December 2012 agreed to fast - track construction (within four years) of 2,800 km of new power lines and upgrade of 2,900 km by designating, with approval from the country's 16 federal states, the Federal Grid Agency as the only competent planning authority and allocating legal disputes concerning the expansion to a single federal administrativefederal states, the Federal Grid Agency as the only competent planning authority and allocating legal disputes concerning the expansion to a single federal administrativeFederal Grid Agency as the only competent planning authority and allocating legal disputes concerning the expansion to a single federal administrativefederal administrative court.

(Sec. 199) Requires the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to: (1) determine areas of the United States that lack a federal power marketing agency; (2) develop a plan or criteria for such areas for investing in renewable energy and associated infrastructure; (3) identify any federal agency within such an area that has, or could develop, the ability to facilitate such investment; and (4) recommend to the House Energy and Commerce Committee the establishment of any new federal lending authority for existing federal agencies.

-- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or the Federal Power Act, a State legislature or regulatory authority may set the rates for a sale of electric energy by a facility generating electric energy from renewable energy sources pursuant to a State - approved production incentive program under which the facility voluntarily sells electric energy.

President Obama promised to use this authority under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases from electric power plants.

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In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that a program Maryland initiated in 2012 to subsidize power plant construction impermissibly invaded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) authority over interstate power markets.