Sentences with phrase «from conservative think tanks»

Critics and skeptics — primarily industry spokespeople and scientists from conservative think tanks — immediately attacked the theory.

Interestingly, the volume of climate work from conservative think tanks has skyrocketed; from 203 documents between 1990 and 1997 to 16,028 documents from 1998 — 2013.

«In retrospect, it seems strange that so many liberals bought into an idea that emanated from conservative think tanks and conservative thinkers,» education scholar and anti-privatization activist Diane Ravitch wrote.

All the Orange County legislators were provided with documentation of factual cases of civil forfeiture abuse; law enforcement agencies and local municipalities using the proceeds of forfeiture properties, cash and cars to balance their budgets; articles from conservative think tanks like The Heritage Foundation against this law and public comments from citizens, attorneys and former police officers expressing their view against this law.

A new report from conservative think tank Migrationwatch says the government has seriously underestimated how many new migrants would arrive in Britain each year.

Mann successfully blocked that, only to be hit with a FOIA request from a conservative think tank.

However, a report from the conservative think tank Fordham Institute and the Oklahoma Business & Education Coalition said replacing the standards may cost significantly more.

Not exact matches

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

Ben Ryan from the religion and society think tank Theos told Premier where it went wrong for the Conservatives, explaining: «If you saw the campaign leaflets that came through my door, they had «Theresa May says «back my candidate»».

For, away from the daily focus of the Westminster media, Conservative and independent free - market leaning think tanks are flourishing in a way they haven't for years.

The first was from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank chaired by Conservative peer David Willetts and run by Torsten Bell, previously adviser to former Labour leader Ed Miliband.

A report from think tank British Future has suggested that the «ethnic minority vote» cost the Conservatives a parliamentary majority in the last general election.

Once described as David Cameron's favourite think tank, the Conservative leader could hardly wait to distance himself from Policy Exchange yesterday.

The Conservatives» success has also hardened their attitude to economic advice from the free - market think tanks that once expected a hotline to Number 11.

Some of the ideas will be mine but I hope that, over time, they'll mainly come from Britain's think tanks, Conservative MPs and from you.

David Blankenhorn with national conservative think tank the Institute for American Values says that particular number comes from a lobby group, the New York Gaming Association, not independent studies, and he predicts that the opposite will occur.

The Bow Group, a Conservative think tank, recently demanded he be expelled from the Party's Lords group over a claim he made that a Labour government would be preferable to the «long - term disaster» of Brexit.

While the executive proposal includes $ 200 million in funding to address the opioid crisis, it does not prevent the state from using the existing funds designated for these programs to plug other holes in the budget, according to Bill Hammond, health policy analyst at the Empire Center for Fiscal Policy, a conservative - leaning think tank.

At roughly the same time, several dozen demonstrators from the advocacy group Picture the Homeless rallied outside the Vanderbilt Avenue headquarters of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, in protest against the Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict Mr. Pantaleo in the Garner homicide, and against broken windows policing.

«The entire point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

The Empire Center, a think tank rooted in fiscally conservative beliefs, compared the new rebate checks, which will range from around $ 200 to several hundred dollars, to Frankenstein's monster.

Almost one million children from poor backgrounds will lose the right to free school meals if Theresa May pushes through cuts in the Conservative manifesto, an educational think tank has warned.

EJ McMahon, with the conservative leaning think tank The Empire Center, likened the first items to a big box delivered from Federal Express or UPS.

The Empire Center, a think tank rooted in fiscally conservative beliefs, compared the new rebate checks (which will range from around $ 200 to several hundred dollars) to Frankenstein's monster.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

One advocate for its use is Donald Roberts, a medical zoologist recently retired from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the board of Africa Fighting Malaria, which collaborates with conservative think tanks.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

Lawmakers and lab directors praise suggestions from a coalition of conservative, moderate, and liberal think tanks

Months after a request from a Virginia politician and a conservative think tank, the University of Virginia (UVA) has turned over documents related to embattled scientist Michael Mann's research into the history of Earth's climate.

But he also said his decision to fraudulently acquire and then leak a set of explosive documents from the conservative, climate skeptic think tank was prompted by sustained attacks from climate deniers.

When the links contained in that paragraph come from a study by the Hoover Institution (a conservative / libertarian think tank with a decided bias), and George Will (a noted conservative columnist), you have to back away and ask what agenda is being served.

«The Obama action on the Common Core really transformed it from a state - led initiative we could all agree on to something that was much more politically charged,» said Michael Brickman, the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank that supports the standards.

There were many other people who testified that day from AARP, its relatively new but strong foe AAWP (w - > Working), and various conservative and liberal think tanks, but no one said anything valuable that the Chief Actuary didn't already say: without changes to benefits or taxes (contributions, haha), payment skipping would become regular.

It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry - funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative» think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

Let's see... one side raises alarms because of their pride, but the other side is totally immune to any ulterior motive, in spite of billions of dollars from big oil companies and conservative think tanks?

The Heartland Institute is a Chicago - based free market think tank launched in 1994, which has accepted millions of dollars from conservative groups and fossil fuel interests.

Three (Morano and his CFACT colleagues Craig Rucker and David Rothbard) were accredited with a CFACT delegation and three more were listed as CFACT representatives in a ten - strong delegation from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, another conservative think tank that pushes climate science denial.

Arnold is the executive vice president of the think tank the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received funding from various conservative foundations and oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil.

He comes to the Beacon from the Heritage Foundation, where he was the conservative think tank's first investigative reporter.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Conservative / Republican).

Leaked internal strategy and funding documents from the Heartland Institute, obtained by DeSmog, revealed that the conservative climate change denial think tank planned to pay approximately $ 25,000 in June, September, and December ($ 75,000 total budget) for a «K - 12 Climate Education Project» headed by David Wojick.

Speaking at the Greener Britain Hustings, hosted by environmental think tank the Green Alliance, Davey called the potential for a Conservative government after the election a «nightmare scenario» that would distract from «the most important climate negotiations ever».

Dr Travis Coan, of the University of Exeter, and Dr Constantine Boussalis, of Trinity College Dublin, analysed 16,000 articles, reports, transcripts, letters, reviews and press releases from the websites of 19 conservative think tanks, mainly based in the U.S, who work on climate change.

Based outside of Chicago, Heartland is a conservative think tank that lobbies against climate regulation, has received funding from fossil fuel - linked groups, and lauded President Donald Trump's recent decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

The conservative think - tank in Washington D.C. has received funding from ExxonMobil, Chevron, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars from foundations associated with Richard Mellon Scaife.

The simmering controversy sheds light on the vast influence of the Koch political machine, which spans from the top conservative think tanks, Republican politicians, a small army of contracted lobbyists, and Tea Party front groups in nearly every state.

Morano is also the Communications Director at CFACT, a conservative think - tank in Washington D.C. that has received funding from ExxonMobil, Chevron, as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars from foundations associated with Richard Mellon Scaife.

Representatives from major fossil fuel corporations and industry groups had joined forces with operatives from major conservative think tanks and public relations experts to draft what they called their Global Climate Science Communications (GCSC) plan.