Sentences with phrase «in policy debates»

As a result conservatives are not participating in the policy debate, and just denying the science in the first place.

In policy debates over energy and climate change, the deck is automatically stacked against the free market.

Many of the organizations we spoke with found success using blogging and social networking to increase their role in policy debates, get their message in front of key audiences and connect with supporters.

Consumer polls are often cited in policy debates about genetically modified food labeling.

The episode also illustrates how the climate misinformation camp has exploited opportunities to influence climate policy, by targeting those with a direct stake in the policy debate.

We're not sure we have time to engage in the policy debates.

«They show readiness to embrace higher standards and accountability with support, but are concerned that their voices are not adequately heard in the policy debate,» the report's authors write.

The concept has been influential in policy debates ever since, pretty much across the ideological spectrum.

Judging from their continuing prevalence in policy debates, such questions also remain mostly unanswered.

I like it when people cite my research in policy debates.

Quality, borrower - centric servicing is essential, but often overlooked in policy debates.

The site seeks to help policy makers and interested citizens understand the ethical dimensions of climate change issues in contention in policy debates.

The episode also illustrates how the climate misinformation camp has exploited opportunities to influence climate policy, by targeting those with a direct stake in the policy debate.

Faith leaders, says Scott, can organize their communities to write to legislators, get involved in policy debates, or invite policymakers to speak to them.

Jessie Smith Noyes Fdn grant for «General support for an organization working to ensure that low income communities, indigenous groups, and communities of color participate in policy debates on climate change and food justice issues in Minnesota and the Midwest to achieve solutions»

The education level of the state (and the nation) is central to a growing economy — and it is important to ensuring that citizens can adequately participate in the policy debates of their own democracy.

While the Supreme Court reached the result we hoped for, the court did not discuss these policy issues (it also showed little interest in the policy debate during the oral argument in the case).

The ESEF press release stated the organisation was «a Cambridge - based science and policy think - tank, focuses on clearly communicating scientific facts on major public policy matters while challenging the misuse of science in the policy debate».

Hope is important in policy debates, but there's also a role for skepticism.

Such an approach requires more courage than fiery denunciations of greed and injustice; subjecting all positions in a policy debate to critical theological and moral scrutiny risks offending everyone.

While answering questions after an Oct. 1 speech — in which he avoided taking sides in the policy debate — McChrystal challenged a popular alternative to the approach that President Obama sent him to Afghanistan to pursue.

Common Cause: Pro-Fracking Interests Spent Millions on Politics A new Common Cause / NY report released Monday highlights the role that money plays in the policy debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York.

In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.

He and his team now are planning to conduct a survey about what kinds of «engagement mechanisms» could help avoid the sort of polarization seen in policy debates over genetically modified crops or climate change.

«I would rather use Bologna as an advantage, not look at it as a threat,» says Ligia Deca, chairperson of the European Students» Union (ESU), one of eight consultative members in the policy debate on higher education at the European level, and one that represents the students» perspective.

The commonly held view is that Conservatives and Republicans are anti-science, and Liberals and Democrats are pro-science,» said Nisbet, a social scientist who studies the impact of strategic communication in policy debates over science and the environment.

In that role, she reported on topics spanning the business world from covering the debt downgrade and debt ceiling crisis to the latest in policy debates, legal issues, and technology trends.

Though measuring and comparing school performance is always complicated, the Edsource report offers an impartial analysis that must be considered in the policy debate.

The same «minority rights» arguments appeared in the policy debates that led to the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (famous as PL 94 - 142).

But the finding gradually assumed greater importance in policy debates, as extensive subsequent research engendered by the Coleman Report reinforced this conclusion.

I think these organizations will help raise teacher voice, and we're going to clearly partner with a number of them to bring their voice into the union and also to think about how to use those voices more strategically in the policy debates.

We boast a decades - long history of excellence in policy debate, including championships on the local, state and national levels.

Is K - 12 education poised to catch fire in the policy debates leading up to November's presidential election, now less than 100 days away?

Over the last six months, school funding has been an almost constant feature in policy debate, from the proposed introduction of a National Funding Formula to the longer running cuts and freezes schools are facing to their budgets.

And there's far more murk in the policy debate, with the biggest questions being how much warming is too much and what policies, investments or strategies are most likely to limit regrets.

Will their voices weigh heavily in policy debates?

As analysts and journalists, we are all free to take sides and express support for a specific outcome in a policy debate and there is an important role for voices like Bill McKibben or Grunwald in doing so.

The paper may be useful in the policy debate, provided it doesn't distract from an overiding need to improve observational and modeling / computer capabilities; improving these capabilities may require a concerted and coordinated effort with large investments.

Climate change has achieved such an elevated status in the policy debate that it has become a litmus test.