Sentences with phrase «from public policy decision»

Arguably, the harm that can come from public policy decision that are based on errors, omissions or deceptions by climate researchers is equal to the harm that can come from unregulated stock market promoters.
Here, most powerfully, he deprecates the virtual exclusion of the Christian voice and interest from public policy decision - making.

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Meanwhile, the decision to end Yahoo's work - from - home policy was a bit of a public - relations nightmare for the brand.
Among the many ramifications from the decision will be the need for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to revisit some of its policy decisions aimed at achie...
These organizations should be cut off from defining public policy and the courts should be restricted in allowing their testimony, bias and words to define the courts decision.
Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of....
Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax - exempt status for religious institutions: «Rather than try to rescue tax - exempt status for organizations that dissent from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step.
On every question about economic or political decisions, from general influence on public policy to specific influence on the minimum wage, between 75 percent and 85 percent of African - Americans said that religion should be involved.
The hang up, though, is when we start talking public policy decisions that cost billions of dollars... I'm still searching spiritual / philosophical ways to deal with feelings about that, but it may just be the whole notion of «rendering to Caesar» and trying to live in my own realm, separating myself from the madness of the State.
A statement from Conflicts of Interest Coalition, endorsed by 145 national, regional and international organizations, calls for the development of a Code of Conduct in public policy decision - making to safeguard against conflicts of interest.
«The decision by the Supreme Judicial Court reaffirms the Commonwealth's right to protect its most vulnerable plant and animal species from destruction,» said Jack Clarke, Mass Audubon's Director of Public Policy and Government Relations.
According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.
The incredible natural calamities occurring around the world have understandably taken away public attention from important policy decisions, such as the Trump Administration's move to end federal policy protecting the children of undocumented immigrants.
The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys....
We've seen this sort of criticism of policy and political decisions coming from pundits and bloggers for years, but now a large enough group of online political professionals is writing in public that the degree and level of discussion of online strategy is astonishing this far in advance of anything resembling an election.
Fifteen hundred pages of emails from Rosen released by City Hall the night before Thanksgiving show that he was deeply involved in city policy, weighing in on decisions regarding universal pre-K and consulting with one of the mayor's top aides, Emma Wolfe, on how to handle public relations issues.
The release, explaining the decision was reached unanimously by the group's two component boards of directors, stated, «The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo at the organization's Fall Dinner on October 22, 2015.»
The two men have for months engaged in a bruising public rivalry that has had an effect on policy decisions ranging from education to managing two public health crises.
But it's also raising alarms from critics who worry that key decisions about state energy policy are being rushed without enough public debate.
Why should our leaders be exempt from real - time accountability when so much more is at stake - big decisions about public policy, the use of your money, the course of our future?
Researchers from the programme will be on hand to discuss their research and its implications for public policy decision making.
It should be clear from their decision to exempt management / confidential employees, including political appointees, from layoffs in a move that reflects bad management and bad public policy.
«The Boards» decision comes on the heels of securing the Pride Agenda's top remaining policy priority ---- protecting transgender New Yorkers from discrimination in housing, employment, credit, education, and public accommodations ---- in the form of new regulations announced in partnership with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,» ESPA's release stated.
Other key points from the interviews include Mayor Bloomberg's personal commitment to public health, his use of data to drive policy decisions, and his appointment of and reliance on like - minded agency leaders.
The research is part of a larger effort by Harvard and Columbia to provide local stakeholders with an effective tool to assess the public health costs from fires and guide policy decisions.
Another beef environmentalists have with the bill is that it would exempt decisions made or actions taken with regard to hunting and fishing on federal lands from federal environmental review and public disclosure regulations established under 1969's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Going from a model to a public policy decision involves understanding the needs of the stakeholders and the context, says Clemen.
«It is clear from our research that development plans and public policy decisions at national, regional and local level increasingly require clear and accurate information.»
Better communication from the public and policymakers can provide scientists with clearer signals regarding the public's concern and science's role in addressing them,» said Fischhoff, the Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Ppublic and policymakers can provide scientists with clearer signals regarding the public's concern and science's role in addressing them,» said Fischhoff, the Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Ppublic's concern and science's role in addressing them,» said Fischhoff, the Howard Heinz University Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public PPublic Policy.
In their paper, Fischhoff and Davis, a research scientist in engineering and public policy who received his Ph.D. from CMU in social and decision sciences, outline the challenges of explaining the uncertainty that is part of all scientific research findings.
http://www.ncld.org The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child Established in 2003, the National Scientific Council is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of scientists and scholars from universities across the United States and Canada designed to bring the science of early childhood and early brain development to bear on public policy decision - making.
IETL is the premier professional association for school technology leaders, policy makers, and decision makers from both the public and private sectors of Illinois.
«This decision would wrest educational policy from the representative branches of state government, limit public education for some students with special needs, create additional municipal mandates concerning graduation and other standards, and alter the basic terms of educators» employment — and entrust all of those matters to the discretion of a single, unelected judge,» Jepsen said.
Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve teachers» working conditions, students» learning conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.
The Department will have mechanisms in place, as described in the forthcoming DOT Scientific Integrity Policy Implementation Manual, to resolve disputes that arise from decisions not to proceed with proposed interviews or other public information - related activities.
Although the federal labor policy contained in Taft - Hartley is not to be ignored, the paramount concern must be with the public policy against racial discrimination which is reflected in civil rights legislation and in the Court's New Negro Alliance decision, which immunized racial - labor disputes from injunctions under NorrisLa Guardia long before the advent of civil rights legislation»...
Keynote: How Business Executives Succeed When Facing Public Policy Challenges Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Transportation Norman Mineta will offer examples from his vast reservoir of experience as to how business executives can ensure their views are properly represented in the government decision - making process.
Keynote: How Business Executives Succeed When Facing Public Policy Challenges Former Secretary Norman Mineta will offer examples from his vast reservoir of experiences as to how business executives can ensure their views are properly represented in the government decision - making process.
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But several crucial decisions — on whether or not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas, drilling in the Arctic, and hydraulic fracturing on public lands — will be pivotal in determining whether Obama's policy confronts climate change, or whether it worsens the carbon pollution problem.
In every area of public policy, from national defense, to the environment, to the economy, decisions are shaped by developments in and arguments about science and technology.
The methods they use are public information campaigns, mobilising action and influencing decision - makers on a wide range of topics on all levels — from daily household decisions to national and international policies.
The main purpose of this Dialog is to communicate to politicians and decision makers — both within the water community and from other public policy areas relevant to the topic - and other actors involved, a series of key messages and recommendations that enable them to define, in an informed manner, public policies and corresponding actions on climate change adaptation.
Decision makers in both public and private sectors can benefit from an iterative risk management framework for responding to climate change, in which decisions and policies can be revised in light of new information and experience.
In contrast, a probability density function over the equilibrium climate sensitivity conveys no information to a maker of public policy regarding the outcomes from his / her policy decisions.
«It's bad enough that climate alarmists have actively sought to keep those who disagree with the «dangerous manmade climate change» thesis from publishing or speaking on the subject, or having a role in public policy decisions, it's far worse when they seek to prosecute climate chaos skeptics,» says Paul Driessen.
The profound implications of research and potential deployment of climate geoengineering approaches compel urgent attention to public participation at all stages of decision - making, from framing issues to evaluating options and scenarios, setting priorities, codifying decisions, and implementing policies and programs.
With the CCC being responsible for informing decisions with consequences for policy decades into the future, it reflects very badly on the CCC that its Chair routinely makes such uncompromising, and unfounded claims in public, which can not be supported with evidence, apparently to defend the CCC's advice to Parliament from criticism.
In this transformative period, we who have had little or no background in politics or public policy are going to have to reinvent ourselves in a way that legitimizes our role as political commentators, or risk distracting from the most important decisions of our time.
1898)(«no one can obtain the exclusive right to publish the laws of a state»)(Harlan, J., sitting by designation); Nash v. Lathrop, 142 Mass. 29, 6 N.E. 559 (Mass. 1886)(«Every citizen is presumed to know the law thus declared, and it needs no argument to show that justice requires that all should have free access to the opinions, and that it is against sound public policy to prevent this, or to suppress and keep from the earliest knowledge of the public the statutes or the decisions and opinions of the justices.»).
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