The groups said the State Department, which granted the permit needed for the pipeline to cross the Canada-U.S. border, relied on an «outdated and incomplete environmental impact statement» when making its decision earlier this month.
Meanwhile, a budget watchdog
group said the state could still spend more money on the poorest schools and save hundreds of millions of dollars if only it reconfigured the formula for distributing school aid.
The reform
groups say the state Board of Elections in its present form is useless and incompetent when it comes to enforcing campaign violations, and needs to be replaced.
The Empire Center and local taxpayer
groups said the state needs to give districts greater leverage in negotiating teacher contracts by amending a law that deals with pay scales and benefits.
While the Cuomo administration is pushing the U.S. EPA to test all drinking water sources for dangerous chemicals, environmental
groups say the state should take action.
Experts and good - government
groups say the state should audit more ballots after an election to look for discrepancies.
Though it supports infrastructure spending,
the group said the state should focus on existing and deteriorating roads, bridges and mass transit first.
Good government
groups say the state is trying to hoodwink voters to say yes, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Friday.
The Manhattan - based fiscal watchdog
group said state spending on two major programs — public education and Medicaid — is due to rise more than double the overall 2 percent government spending increase cap.
Native
groups say state officials had no right to issue permits for the project in March and say that research groups have mismanaged the mountain's summit, which is already home to 13 telescopes.
The groups say states need help and financial support in building the necessary infrastructure to allow for greater data transparency.
In its application, The Romine
Group said state officials should expect one transition year, with marginal improvements in student performance in the subsequent years.
The groups say the State Department and the Fish and Wildlife Service have quietly allowed TransCanada to do the work, including mowing a corridor of native prairie grasslands in Nebraska's ecologically sensitive Sand Hills region.
Not exact matches
Syrian
state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down missiles fired at an air base in the Homs area, and a media unit run by the Lebanese
group Hezbollah
said missiles had also targeted an air base near Damascus.
The
group said there are nearly 151,000 wells operating in the United
States, while in central and eastern portion of the country earthquakes have dramatically increased since 2008, when fracking became more common.
State - owned ChemChina's US$ 43 billion purchase of Swiss pesticides and seeds
group Syngenta, Beijing's biggest overseas sale to date, has deepened concerns in Europe that the bloc is ceding control of its advanced technology, EU diplomats
said.
MOSCOW, March 31 - The co-owner of Russia's Summa investment and trading
group, Ziyavudin Magomedov, and two business partners have been detained on suspicion of embezzling large sums of
state money, the Russian interior ministry
said on Saturday.
MOSCOW, May 2 - The chairman of En +
Group said on Wednesday he was working on implementing a plan that En + hopes will lead to the United
States lifting sanctions on the company, the biggest shareholder in aluminum giant Rusal.
A
group of Perth's young professionals felt so strongly about proposals made in a review of the
State's Liquor Licensing Act, they decided to have their
say by making a submission signed by 87 endorsees from around the city.
The French official
said the Turkish offensive in northern Syria «must stop,»
saying it is threatening the broader U.S. - led military campaign against the Islamic
State group.
In a statement circulated online, Islamic
State said that two suicide bombers had carried out the attack, killing and wounding «hundreds of polytheist rejectionists», as the ultra-hardline Sunni
group refers to Shi'ite Muslims.
Macron praised the SDF,
saying it is courageously fighting the Islamic
State group, and pledged it French support.
The department reached out to a
group of
state attorneys general — the top law enforcement officials at the
state level — that earlier joined the review, the source
said.
The team behind the research taught two
groups of participants two differing strategies for
saying no when something threatened to tempt them away from their
stated goals.
A spokesman for the Iranian - backed paramilitary
groups said the advance toward the Islamic
State - held town of Tal Afar, about 55 km (35 miles) west of Mosul, would start within «a few days or hours».
PARIS — Better information - sharing between countries, law enforcement agencies, financial services companies and the tech industry will help combat financing for the Islamic
State group and al - Qaida, a senior international official
said Thursday.
The Russian air raids, launched ostensibly to target Islamic
State, have mostly hit other, foreign - backed rebel
groups, the United
States says.
State Archaeologist John Doershuk
said the company's plan is satisfactory, but Indigenous Environmental Network organizer Dallas Goldtooth
says his
group opposes the decision to allow construction to go forward.
The South Korean
group plans to spend the $ 3.1 billion to retool existing factories in the United
States and boost research on self - driving cars, artificial intelligence and other future technologies, Chung
said.
High - grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot inspired and directed by the militant Islamic
State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan
said in August.
In the United
States, Millstein & Co's head of sovereign advisory Mark Walker
said he had met with an initial
group of more than 20 creditors regarding the formation of a possible committee.
«This acquisition will allow Desjardins to develop a broader, multi-channel distribution network across the country, while continuing to meet the needs of
State Farm's Canadian client base,»
said Monique Leroux, Desjardins
Group's president, CEO and chair of the board.
«The material that WikiLeaks is going to publish before the end of the year is of... a very significant moment in different directions, affecting three powerful organizations in three different
states as well as... the U.S election process,» he
said via a video link at an event marking the
group's 10th anniversary.
Anti-U.S.
groups can use the ban to spread their message that the United
States won't protect certain people, David Miliband
says.
A
group of 15
states and the District of Columbia have filed papers with the appeals court in support of Washington
state's challenge to Trump's Jan. 27 order,
saying it harms their educational institutions and economies.
Maude Barlow, the head of the Council of Canadians, an organization that adamantly opposes liberalized trade,
said Magnette isn't just speaking for the Walloons; he's speaking for
groups such as hers over what they see as a flawed approach to solving disputes between investors and
states.
It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over
state laws voted in by a majority of the people,
says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law
Group.
A flood of Chinese steel into the United
States has prompted the U.S. Commerce Department to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on a wide - range of Chinese steel products, while U.S. business
groups have complained about new Chinese regulations they
say favor local firms.
And the association has been joining hands with
groups like Silicon Valley Leadership
Group to show members of Congress how the economies of
states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge
says
«The record levels of households reflect the significantly higher values of all asset classes post-recession,» Spectrem
Group president George Walper, Jr.,
said in a press release, «and the recent record level of the United
States markets following the presidential election has added demonstrably to the asset level of most affluent investors.»
Some members of the
group say they are being squeezed by a tough economy, Western sanctions on Russia, and powerful
state - run companies that are muscling in on nearly all sectors of the economy.
Brett McGurk, the top U.S. envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic
State group,
said he was in northern Syria to prepare for the defeat of the militants.
Let's
say you own an income - producing property, like a
group of apartments, in a high - tax
state like New York.
In their letter, the
groups said the breach caused «incalculable harm» and suggested several of the affected individuals had already filed complaints with the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights or other
state authorities.
How much notice will depend on
state requirements, but it's generally within the same period you're required to give notice for renewal,
says Michael Vraa, managing attorney and hotline director at HOME Line, a nonprofit tenant advocacy
group in Minneapolis.
A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington
says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang
Group, which
states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.
Litt
said his
group is
group is working with policymakers at the
state level to make freezes free.
The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United
States, an intra-government agency that scrutinizes foreign
groups» purchases of U.S. assets to protect national security interests, rejected the initial application for the Alerian deal, one of the sources
said on Tuesday.
China should surpass Japan this year to become the world's No. 2 investor in research and development after the United
States, an international economic
group said.
After Trump won the presidency, Nicole Hockley, another founder of Sandy Hook Promise,
said that the
group would continue its efforts at the
state and local level - and argued that, no matter who is in the White House, «I still don't think our country is ready yet for federal change.»