Sentences with phrase «industry efforts»

Cotton Babies had worked to support industry efforts and ensure that there was a good solid set of information that worked well for everyone.
That research led to improved gearbox designs, reducing the overall cost of wind energy and showing how collaborative industry efforts and federal support for R&D can resolve performance challenges.
In collaboration with business leaders, the firm promotes industry efforts by supporting government relations activities of trade associations.
Local educational institutions are also working to further drone industry efforts in the region.
This continues industry efforts to inform retailers and the public about the potential for transmission of illness from companion animals to their owners along with measures to prevent these diseases.
Industry efforts seek to educate employees and travelers alike about sex tourism and other forms of exploitation....
«This historical account of industry efforts demonstrates the importance of having reviews written by people without conflicts of interest and the need for financial disclosure,» note the authors, who point out the NEJM has required authors to disclose all conflicts of interest since 1984.
«Peabody plays a major role in industry efforts to block action on climate change, with its own lobbyists and PR campaigns, as well as through front groups it supports like ALEC,» says Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA.
«The Resolution on Food Waste the CGF Board of Directors has adopted demonstrates our willingness to engage and take action in an area where a collective industry effort can make a difference,» Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke said during the conference.
«Despite industry efforts toward standardization, there is an absence of standards for industrial and B2B vendors.
The Commissioner risks rolling back industry efforts to scrutinize individual supply chains and combat human rights abuses and potential cases of conflict financing along them.»
and voluntary industry efforts like the Disney junk food ad ban, I've also acknowledged the weakness of the former and the frequent corporate abuses of voluntary schemes like the latter.
In 2017, Mr. Dooley led industry efforts in helping secure the historic «Tax Cuts and Jobs Act» that included key provisions that improve and support a vibrant and competitive U.S. chemical industry and manufacturing sector.
Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Science Also Directed $ 45 Million Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking Former National Academy of Sciences President Admits Being Paid $ 585,000 by Tobacco Companies.
Bundling and discounting hasn't always been a killer offer for mobile consumers and prior cable industry efforts to get into wireless flopped.
Dr. Spink noted that the survey highlighted the confusion in food fraud - related terminology and how the potential overlap in definitions could impede industry efforts to address the issue.
The U.S. meat and poultry inspection system complements industry efforts to ensure that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry and egg products is safe, wholesome and correctly labeled and packaged.
So while we applaud dairy industry efforts to develop lower - sugar products, these efforts demonstrate that there is no need to amend the current standard of identity for flavored milk in order to keep flavored milk in school.
Unfortunately, industry efforts so far appear woeful.
However, «rather than warn the public», the electric industry made long - term investments in coal - fired generation and joined energy industry efforts to block climate regulations - including by lobbying, funding advertisements, and funding scientists skeptical about climate change, the EPI said.
William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA administrator, criticizes today's GOP attacks on the agency as well as industry efforts to thwart scientific evaluations of toxic chemicals
The PBN Strategy, which is the result of collaborative FAA and industry efforts over the past 10 + years, outlines commitments and achievements needed to complete the transition to a PBN - centric NAS.
It's refreshing and encouraging to see games industry efforts recognised by local government and we're extremely pleased to welcome Guildford Borough Council along to Rocket Jump Events Guildford.
In reality, the lack of interest stems chiefly from the fact that this denial - a-palooza fest is dripping with oil money and represents a blatant industry effort to greenwash oil and coal while simultaneously attacking the credibility of climate scientists.
A decade later, the company spearheaded industry efforts to derail regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and cloud public understanding of climate science.
A dam industry effort threatens to greenwash dams and undermine the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD).
Those investigations followed two separate investigative series in 2015, first by InsideClimate News and then the Columbia University School of Journalism and Los Angeles Times, into the cutting - edge research on climate change conducted by Exxon as far back as the 1970s and later industry efforts to cast doubt on the science and to delay efforts to cut emissions.
«A delicate diplomatic situation»: tobacco industry efforts to gain control of the Framingham study.
Not long after the release of Ross Gelbspan's 1997 «The Heat is On» book, words in its book jacket sleeve about him being a «Pulitzer - winning journalist exposing industry efforts to confuse the public about global warming» drew a response from skeptic climate scientist Dr S. Fred Singer, who categorically denied any quid pro quo arrangement with «big coal & oil», while also directly saying Gelbspan was not a Pulitzer winner.
New data released by EPA shows that methane emissions from oil and natural gas production fell in 2015, marking the fourth straight year of declines and documenting industry efforts to reduce them.
The blog monitors industry efforts to discredit climate science.
Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.
The House letter, dated Wednesday, took to task industry efforts to weaken crucial definitions within the provision, including a bid to call a «project» the equivalent of a company's entire aggregate work in a foreign country or even as far as a «geographic basin.»
Ludwig is a security expert who has led industry efforts for malware analysis and take downs directed at malicious activity on the Internet.
After decades of opposing industry efforts to establish real estate investment trusts in the United Kingdom, the British government will permit the investment vehicle beginning this month.
«The Resolution on Food Waste the CGF Board of Directors has adopted demonstrates our willingness to engage and take action in an area where a collective industry effort can make a difference,» said Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé S.A. «We will leverage the best practices we have developed for the implementation of the existing resolutions on deforestation and refrigeration to engage the CGF's wider membership in the global effort on food waste.
The draft plan suggests that despite industry efforts to convince the public that the climate treaty would be costly to carry out and unfair to the United States, the treaty remains popular partly because environmentalists are winning the debate on the science.
Recognizing the need for consumer education, automotive industry leaders have formed AWARE (Americans Well - informed on Automobile Retailing Economics), a collaborative industry effort to provide consumers with information, tools, and other resources to better understand the auto financing system.
Several voluntary industry efforts to address these sources are underway, including EPA's plans to expand on the successful Natural Gas STAR Program by launching a new partnership in collaboration with key stakeholders later in 2015.
Fresh Enterprises, LLC, owner of the Baja Fresh, La Salsa Mexican Grill and Canyon's Burger restaurant concepts, announced that it supports industry efforts to move away from gestation crates, and is committed to purchasing pork only from suppliers with documented plans to end their use of gestation crates.
Southeast BIO Fosters the growth of the life sciences industry in the Southeastern United States through efforts that promote entrepreneurship and bring together companies, investors, universities and support organizations active in the development of the industry
Ryan Gilbert writes about the industry effort that went into «A Framework for FinTech,» a paper released in the final days of the Obama administration.
Burger King Corp, DineEquity Inc's IHOP and more than a dozen other restaurant chains earlier this month backed an industry effort to serve and promote healthier meals for children.
He knows that large numbers of people are against gambling and will come out to vote, and that referenda campaigns cost the industry effort and financial resources.
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