Sentences with phrase «first federal effort»

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

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Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

From the shelter, the presidential motorcade travel to First Church to help load water and food on vehicles bound for flood victims in need, and the president, who was asking Congress for almost $ 8 billion in emergency funding, also repeatedly applauded the federal relief efforts thus far.

A District of Columbia federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama - era program and - for the first time...

You'll recall that Senator Menendez was the first federal elected official who stepped up to the plate and supported our efforts to get pink slime out of school food.

These rules, which were mandated by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, represent the first significant federal effort to regulate «competitive food,» i.e., the foods and drinks sold to kids during the school day through outlets such as vending machines, school stores, cafeteria «a la carte» (snack bar) lines and school fundraisers.

The press release sent by Gillibrand's office notes she is the first New York senator to serve on the Agriculture Committee in nearly 40 years, and says she and Hanna will be announcing a new effort to change the federal school lunch guidelines to make Greek yogurt — New York's hottest dairy commodity these days — more affordable for schools.

Additional concerns about the fourth premise were also raised (i.e. «is the federal government really more efficient at managing such efforts»), but arguments about the effectiveness of the department are really ancillary to the justification for its existence in the first place.

At 1 p.m., de Blasio and NYC First Lady Charlane McCray will make an announcement about healthcare in Queens and discuss federal efforts to roll back healthcare at the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, 136 - 26 37th Ave., Flushing.

Lawyers representing 11 artists argued in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Thursday that an effort by the Bloomberg administration to slash the number of artists in parks by more than half violated the First Amendment's free - speech protections.

A summary of the call from de Blasio's offices said the president praised the efforts of the first - responders and offered federal assistance in the investigation, while the mayor thanked Trump for the help from homeland security officials.

President Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to show support for residents reeling from the effects of Hurricane Harvey and to assess the first stages of the federal recovery effort.

An investigation into the mayor's fundraising practices and efforts to help state Senate Democrats in key battleground races was closed by federal prosecutors, but became an additional irritant for de Blasio during his first term.

Speaking for the first time since Comptroller Scott Stringer announced the settlement late Monday, the family and Sharpton said they would continue with efforts to have federal prosecutors indict officer Pantaleo after a Staten Island grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against him last year.

The net result would be a federal R&D portfolio in the 21st century that would look significantly different from today: defense R&D would be less than half the total portfolio for the first time since before World War II, while the NIH's R&D effort would be almost as large as those of all other nondefense R&D funding agencies combined.

The complaint, filed in a federal district court by two prominent heart researchers, offers the first indication of just what is amiss in two papers they co-authored, which describe the heart's natural regenerative ability, and an effort to heal damaged hearts with stem cells.»

That is because California has often set standards more stringent than the federal government's — for example its decades - long efforts to rein in pollution from automobile exhaust, including being the first state to mandate catalytic converters in 1975.

The New York Times has it too, and they publish first, prompting Nixon to obtain a federal court injunction in a preemptive effort to protect his own secrets — secrets that were far more important to him than the First Amendfirst, prompting Nixon to obtain a federal court injunction in a preemptive effort to protect his own secrets — secrets that were far more important to him than the First AmendFirst Amendment.

Some home - school advocacy groups have attempted to secure a federal law or Supreme Court ruling that would establish uniform national guidelines grounded in First or Fourteenth Amendment rights, but to date such efforts have failed (to the great relief of home - school advocacy groups that oppose this strategy).

Under the umbrella of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) the group coordinated a major effort in 2010 to urge the New York State legislature to lift a charter school cap that had been a stumbling block in the state's first bid to win a federal Race to the Top (RttT) grant.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

First, as Catherine Gewertz noted last week, Achieve's Mike Cohen (a key player in the Common Core effort and someone for whom I have immense respect) has pooh - poohed concerns that the consortia are moving into curricular development (with federal funds) in violation of the statutory prohibition on the U.S. Department of Education developing curricula.

At the federal level, perhaps the most prominent early - childhood initiative that has come from the Bush administration is «Early Reading First,» a national effort to deliver effective reading instruction to young children.

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

What's driving the recent efforts is frustration with longstanding school failure, not the lure of federal grant money that helped push the first three districts into being.

Those efforts, along with push by then - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled legislature to gain a share of federal Race to the Top funding, led to the passage of the nation's first Parent Trigger law.

But, we also will be the first line of defense against any effort to divert federal education funding to private and religious schools, or to promote creation of charter schools not subject to authorization and oversight by school boards.

1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has called the effort a first step toward a federal takeover of the schools.

Such a point also shines light on the fact that EdTrust and other centrist Democrat reformers backing the plan have been silent about the Obama administration's sloppy and shoddy process for granting waivers, especially as President Barack Obama struggles to keep office; it is hard for waiver gambit supporters to complain about Florida's implementation of one of the alternatives to AYP they support without pointing out how the Obama administration's own mishandling of the effort allowed for such antics in the first place (or giving movement conservatives more reasons to oppose a strong federal role in reforming American public education).

In 1991, Lamar Alexander, the first President Bush's secretary of education, made her an assistant secretary, a post she used to lead a federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards.

AppleTree's Every Child Ready efforts have been recognized nationally through two federal Early Reading First grants successfully operated in DC public schools, DC public charter schools, and Head Start classrooms.

Promote federal policies that impact the ability for all students, but especially low - income, first generation and diverse students, to gain access and then be successful in their postsecondary efforts.

Summary: New data indicate the first significant decrease in school - based bullying since the federal government began collecting that data in 2005, suggesting that efforts at the federal, state and local levels to prevent bullying may be paying off.

As first outlined in a June 29, 2015, Federal Register notice these proposed enhancements are a continuation of the agency's longstanding efforts to provide law enforcement, the motor carrier industry, and motor carriers with more informative safety data.

If you believe that the lapse was due to delays caused by the lender or someone else involved in the loan process, you should try first to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement with the lender, if that effort fails, consider writing to the appropriate state or federal regulatory agency.

The Federal Housing Administration Monday said it will take advantage of its healthy mortgage insurance fund to reduce the cost of new loans, part of an Obama administration effort to help low - income and first - time homebuyers in a period of rising rates.

The ESA offers services to interactive entertainment software publishers including a global anti-piracy program, owning the E3 Expo, business and consumer research, federal and state government relations, First Amendment and intellectual property protection efforts.

Several provinces, including Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Quebec reject any effort to introduce a federal tax, though they agreed at a first ministers» conference in Vancouver that governments should adopt some undefined form of carbon pricing.

This post is the first in a series of two examining recent efforts to gain federal support to maintain financially stressed coal and nuclear plants.

Efforts of Indigenous leaders and educators to acquire the authority for the education of their children have contributed to federal and provincial legislation that formalizes the local jurisdiction of education for First Nations communities.

Livingston Christian School first brought a lawsuit in a federal court in Michigan in an effort to protect its right to exist as a ministry in Genoa Township.

Ms. Hahn developed and effectively led the effort to implement the Agency's first Acquisition Workforce Development Strategic Plan mandated by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).

• Track record of developing and implementing plans and strategic, operational and tactical procedures and protocols to execute health and safety management functions • First - hand experience in reviewing incident action plans and provide input on emergency management goals and objectives • Demonstrated ability to judge response capability limitations and propose tactics for coordinated response activities • Able to identify, coordinate and prepare emergency management staff for responder roles including staffing teams • Proven ability to develop and maintain incident management system documentation including organizational charts and job action sheets • Deep insight into conducting quality assurance, data analysis and decision support synthesis operations and developing applicable maps in support of daily and response operations • Exceptionally well - versed in collaborating with other emergency management personnel and local and federal officials while preparing for and responding to disasters • Documented success in providing support to and developing liaison with other agencies and organizations in order to develop and implement core disaster preparedness programs • Solid track record of effectively coordinating all disaster response or crises management activities in events of disasters • Effectively able to coordinate efforts to handle evacuations and implementing special needs programs and plans • Qualified to inspect facilities and equipment used in emergency management operations to ensure appropriate functionality

Only two weeks after the first video's release, the U.S. Senate took the first of many congressional votes to disqualify Planned Parenthood health centers from eligibility for federal funds; some congressional efforts would have empowered states to take similar action.

Reflecting this, the Prime Minister should continue to report to the Parliament and the nation on efforts to «close the gap» (including in relation to health outcomes) on the opening day or the first session of federal Parliament each year.

On June 30, 2014, NAR President Steve Brown sent a letter to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Commissioner Carol Galante in support of FHA's efforts to reduce mortgage insurance premiums for first - time buyers through its Homeowners Armed with Knowledge program, or HAWK.

As part of the Boy Scouts of America's 21 Stories for Scouts fundraising efforts, Amanda rappelled down the outside of First Federal Plaza.

In the first decision, Brad Bennett v. Michael Spear, announced March 19, the court ruled unanimously that people can sue the federal government to challenge the validity of efforts to protect endangered species.