Sentences with phrase «groups opposing»

Schuyler Center joins groups opposing cuts to public health contained in the 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget, February 2018

The fact that groups opposing action on climate change are crying «conspiracy» shows how desperate they are to discredit scientists.

To place these sums in context, Robertson's support for EDF is equivalent to the combined total given by Koch - affiliated foundations and ExxonMobil to conservative groups opposing action on climate change during the same period.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) has been one of the main groups opposing action by the U.S. government to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

When requests for reducing CO2 emissions surfaced, I thought everything will be easily solved by employing nuclear power (later I learned it was not realistic)-- but to my surprise, the very same groups opposing CO2 emissions and promoting wind and solar were opposing nuclear power and building irrational fears of it.

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming now says it has confirmed 13 fake letters to members of Congress apparently from old people's centres and Latino and African - American groups opposing climate change legislation.

On March 29, 2016, when 17 attorneys general — 15 Democratic state attorneys general, one Democrat from the District of Columbia, and one Independent from the Virgin Islands — announced a coordinated effort to initiate legal action against ExxonMobil and other groups opposing President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, the AGs tried to hide evidence they were collaborating with radical groups opposed to fossil fuel use.

Not surprisingly, the conference was attacked in advance by groups opposing contraception and abortion.

Ironically, however, several of the groups opposing parental trigger say that parents have been cut off or denied the right to speak at three hearings on the bill.

The «dark money» from some of the national charter networks has come in to balance out the spending by well financed groups opposing Question 2.

As recently as 17 January, the Consumers» Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia, two groups opposing the use of GM insects, called on the National Biosafety Board to revoke its approval for the study.

The groups opposing Myriad - the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) of New York - called the decision historic.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee has sent $ 250,000 to two groups opposing the recalls.

The injunction was submitted by the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, one of several groups opposing the homeless shelter, to prevent the building from opening before a hearing with the Department of Homeless Services July 22.

Barbara Bartoletti is with the League of Women Voters, one of a coalition of groups opposing the tax credit.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey is taking the head of the Bronx Republican party to task for joining a coalition of more than 100 groups opposing a convention to make changes to the state constitution.

Jessica Wisneski, with Citizen Action, is among progressive groups opposing the provision.

Groups opposing the federal tax overhaul plan held a demonstration Friday at the State Capitol, chanting «kill the bill,» and saying the measure is bad for New York and the nation.

He has referred to groups opposing Golden Rice as «Wicked» and was quoted as such in a BBC article.

Last year's record - setting Women's March — filling Washington D.C. and hundreds of other cities with streams of pink hats and feminist placards — launched an important discussion about the place of pro-life and conservative women in the movement, after multiple women's groups opposing abortion were barred from officially participating.

If it was wrong for the Internal Revenue Service to make threatening noises against church groups opposing the Vietnam war, then it would be wrong for the Federal Communications Commission to start harassing broadcasters for airing the political views of another set of church groups.

Quakers in Britain are founding members of Stop the Arms Fair which is a coalition of groups opposing DSEi in East London.

Before making it inside where the Satanists were practicing their religion, prayers were heard outside by groups opposing the ritual.

Washington (CNN)- A coalition of Christian groups opposing budget cuts for the poor is growing - and so is the conservative media's backlash against the group.

The letter blacks out what country the agents operated in but one goal was to identify local politicians and groups opposing Uber.

The cease - fire that had been brokered between the US and Russia between forces loyal to Assad and the assorted rebel groups opposing it — designed to allow Moscow and Washington to join forces and smash IS and the other jihadist groups — agreed upon on September 12, is over.

Several groups opposed to Trump's candidacy have poured millions into a last - ditch effort to change the direction of the campaign in recent days.

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.

Some complaints are generated from customers who are chronically dissatisfied, seeking a freebie or have an ulterior motive, such as special - interest groups opposed to your company and products.

Indeed, Will Horter, executive director of the Dogwood Initiative, a group opposed to Gateway, argues that the implications of future court challenges might go further, to «potentially hamstring the [National Energy Board] in any situation where there's unceded First Nations lands, anywhere in Canada.»

Similarly, Facebook and Google had donated $ 200,000 each to a group opposing a California ballot initiative that proposes enabling Californians to sue companies for data breaches, among other things.

Two main industry trade groups opposed to DOL's rule — the Financial Services Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association — said Wednesday that they would spend the coming days analyzing the rule.

Forest Ethics is one of the groups opposed to the project.

Some religious groups oppose paying Social Security taxes.

Green groups oppose the project on the basis that pipeline expansion encourages the extraction of more oil and the release of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

It includes everything from nuclear war to arguments in church committees — any occasion when one person or group opposes another person or group.

Once A Catholic... A recent newsletter of the Catholic Women's Network discussed whether or not the organisation - a feminist group opposing various Church teachings — should change...

Once A Catholic... A recent newsletter of the Catholic Women's Network discussed whether or not the organisation - a feminist group opposing various Church teachings — should change its name.

Catholics, as well as any other group opposed to the taking of innocent human life, will find it difficult if not impossible to practice medicine in accordance with the ACOG recommendations.

Do you also want to allow a vegan - owned or religious group opposed to animal testing to force people to pay for any cancer treatment tested on animals?

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Park, said her group opposed the request because too much lakefront park land is being used by private clubs.

A controversial soccer field opened Saturday in Lincoln Park, but a residents» group opposed to the project insisted they aren't done fighting and called on the Chicago Park District to conduct testing of the field's artificial turf.

At the Park District meeting, civic groups opposed to the plan and residents who live across from the proposed museum site raised previous concerns that the structure would go against long - standing court rulings that restrict such construction in Grant Park.

The leader of a citizens «group opposed to the fair countered that the Little findings prove that the fair will end up costing Illinois taxpayers «a bundle.

Lunchroom ladies say «show us the money» And yet several education groups oppose the new regulations.

The group opposes a gravel pit on the Hoffman farm, one of the possible uses for the property southeast of Illinois Highway 31 and Rakow Road.

Chilton and other anti-hunger groups oppose the Senate version because it would take future increases slated for the food stamps program and instead put them towards improving school lunch funding and nutrition.

JILLIAN DARLINGTON: Yeah, well I think on the flip - side to of like why it's better sometimes to reach out to a large group, instead of just going to your friends, is your crowd sourcing, we all want a crowd source information because you know a) we don't want to feel like we are by ourselves, but you know if we are having something and you kind of want to get as much information as possible, that sometimes it is nice to get a lot of feedback and then you can kind of pick and choose what kind of suits you opposed to like just reaching out to you know your bestie, because they might not be going through what you are going through, but if you reach out to 15.000 people, like you can MomsCo Group, or Sidney's group, you know, you can get a lot, you get a lot of fee back, and I think you can never have, you have definitely have to pick and choose the information that fits you, but I think it's easier sometimes to get information if you can reach out to a very large group opposed to just you know texting your friends.

The group opposes home birth.