Sentences with phrase «federal report strengthens»

A new federal report strengthens our understanding of global climate change, providing policymakers with scientific evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following the release of the Climate Science Special Report on Friday.

A federal report strengthens global climate change findings, giving policymakers evidence to develop responses, said Rush Holt, CEO of AAAS.

Not exact matches

Professor Ragan of McGill University, a highly respected economist who was a former adviser to Jim Flaherty, wrote in a recent report for the C. D. Howe Institute that there was nothing the Federal government could do to strengthen economic growth and job creation.

But White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said in a statement on Monday that Trump spoke with Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, on Friday about a bill he introduced with Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, that aims to strengthen how state and federal governments report offenses that could prohibit people from buying a gun.

In late July, the Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force released its much - anticipated report on how to strengthen and operate the U.S. faster payments system.

The co-chair of a new White House report on strengthening science education says its recommendations will not add significantly to federal spending.

The House Science and Technology Committee introduced legislation today that highlights the growing attention on Capitol Hill to the need to strengthen federal efforts to learn more about the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials.Introduction of the bill comes only months after J. Clarence (Terry) Davies authored a report that makes a series of recommendations for improving federal risk research and oversight of engineered nanomaterials at EPA, the FDA and the CPSC.

But since the Nation at Risk report, which found that 23 million American students were «functionally illiterate,» many began to feel the federal role in education needed to be strengthened.

After mentioning NCTQ's plans for a nation - wide review of teacher preparation programs, McKee suggested that in order to improve teacher effectiveness the federal government should provide funding for high - performing teacher preparation programs, issue state teacher preparation report cards, and research best practices, while states should strengthen their oversight practices, and require rigorous licensing tests that do not act as a rubber stamp for all teacher candidates.

«A key lesson from America's experiment with No Child Left Behind is that state and federal policy have not been effective in strengthening school effectiveness at scale,» concludes the Report.

«This strengthened partnership with OSHA extends our inter-agency collaboration specifically to include the sharing of reports of alleged coercion — companies forcing or intimidating truck or bus drivers to violate federal safety regulations,» said FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

The report says the task force over the next several years «will focus on enhancing regional coordination, strengthening and leveraging non-Federal partnerships, and implementing Federal agency adaptation planning.»

As its contribution to the federal election debate, the Canadian section of the international human rights organization Amnesty International today released a new report entitled Strengthening our Commitment: A Human Rights Agenda for Canada.

The New York Times reports that recently released minutes of January's Federal Reserve meeting show that officials see the strengthening economy as a sign for more rate hikes.

U.S. banks also reported that demand for commercial real estate loans weakened in the second quarter, the Federal Reserve said, though foreign banks reported strengthened demand.