Sentences with phrase «industry groups argue»

Subjecting brokers to a fiduciary duty, a standard that now applies to professional money managers, will lead to more lawsuits against the industry and add burdensome compliance requirements, industry groups argue.

But other industry groups argued that Trump's approach would better leverage America's status as the world's largest economy.

«It would be highly precipitous... for the United Nations or other international bodies to single out biofuels as the major cause for escalating food prices and take actions that might lead to even higher food prices,» the industry group argued.

The U.S. derivatives regulator has faced criticism over its handling of cryptocurrency regulation, with some investors and industry groups arguing that more needs to be done to protect consumers.

Not exact matches

Anti-Keystone groups like to argue that blocking the pipeline would choke oilsand development in Alberta, but a much more likely scenario is that the oil industry would simply look for alternative transport means.

A number of business groups are also arguing against further sanctions, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, several tech groups and trade associations that represent retailers, agriculture, telecommunications, clothing and the auto parts industry.

Industry trade groups like ICI have taken issue with the DOL's plan to boost workers» access to retirement plans through state - run programs, arguing that such plans will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

Industry trade groups like the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have come out against state - run plans, arguing that they will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

Two other industry trade groups that have lobbied against the fiduciary proposal — SIFMA and FSI — offer slightly more conciliatory statements, though both groups argue that existing regulations under the SEC and FINRA are already in place to guard against bad retirement advice.

Many industry groups have applauded Wilson's bill and argued that the costs to comply with the rule are too high, and that it places an undue burden on them to comply with those standards.

A group of 46 US industry and trade associations made a final plea to Trump in a letter earlier this week, arguing that «the imposition of sweeping tariffs would trigger a chain reaction of negative consequences for the US economy.»

While the BCA has not yet made a submission to the Fair Work Commission's Annual Wage Review, which sets the country's minimum wage, Australia's peak employer body, the Australian Industry Group, wants the minimum wage increased 1.8 % this financial year, arguing inflation remains weak and that businesses are struggling with a recent rise in energy costs.

The group behind the protest, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, has argued that new rules could remove consumer and driver protections in the industry and create two services: one for New York City riders that is highly regulated by the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, and a lesser system for upstate riders.

An industry coalition, including the Mining Awareness Resource Group, has long argued that DEMS was scientifically flawed.

Environmental groups praised the new policy document, while Republican lawmakers and industry groups expressed dismay that adding another layer of analysis to environmental reviews would slow down what they argue is an already glacial process.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

A U.S. sugar industry trade group appears to have pulled the plug on a study that was producing animal evidence linking sucrose to disease nearly 50 years ago, researchers argue in a paper publishing on November 21 in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

Industry's success with the Data Quality Act is now being imitated by a few public - interest groups, including some confronting the Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to list species as endangered when the data argue otherwise.

Indian coal plants under the CDM received financial backing from the World Bank, sparking an outcry against that organization by groups that argue that the bank's support for the coal industry is inconsistent with its other efforts to tackle climate change.

Industry groups, farmers and local governments argue that it is blocking economic dev - elopment and access to water in western states.

Supporters, including industry groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, argue that the legislation would improve the transparency and soundness of how EPA uses science, making regulations less costly and more effective.

Environmental groups say fracking can contaminate water supplies, but the industry has argued that it does not hurt the environment.

The group argues that the tech industry is knowingly manipulating users into seeking out more screen time, and it's leaving society more depressed, lonely, and stressed out than ever before.

However, labor organizations and community groups were in favor of the rule arguing that such preferences are useful in ensuring that communities have access to training and a pathway to a career in the transportation industry.

The Cleantech Group argues that the electronic reader industry can make a significant impact once people start transitioning from paper media en masse: «A user that purchasers fewer than 22.5 books per year would take longer to neutralize the emissions resulting from the e-reader, and even longer to help reduce emissions attributed to the publishing industry,» according to the study.

Washington, D.C. - On Monday, May 14, at 9:30 am, EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry will argue in court that the public has a right to access, copy, and share the law — and industry groups that helped develop certain legal rules can't inhibit that right by claiming ownership in those rules.

Meanwhile, consumer advocacy groups argued that the Cleveland Fed's research bolsters their opposition to legislation, supported by the online lending industry, which is currently pending in Congress.

You could argue that the group was actually truly representative of the «industry» as the very nature of travel blogging means that the younger end of travel blogging especially is over represented by people from white, middle class backgrounds because people who aren't from that background simply can't afford to take time out to travel... despite what some blogs might say.

Apart from the actual rulemaking process, you should expect three other notable (albeit unsurprising) developments next year on this front: 1) An unprecedented coalition of industry groups opposed to the rules; 2) Republican lawmakers continuing to hammer away, with limited success, to undermine the rules; and 3) the Supreme Court's review of one part of EPA's suite of climate rules that deals rather narrowly with permitting, which will be argued in February and likely decided in June.

If an industry group, or news outlet, used an unconnected video vignette to argue that fracking was all sweet and harmless, would that not be an issue?

Petitioners, various states and industry groups, challenge all these rules, arguing that they are based on improper constructions of the CAA and are otherwise arbitrary and capricious.

This group have their own reasons, usually financial, for arguing the lie; some work in, or close to, the mining or fossil fuel industries, others are receiving some sort of payment from elements within those industries.

O'Neil said the exodus of wind spending that Payne bemoaned is a major victory for groups like FMM, who argue that erecting wind turbines is a waste of taxpayer and ratepayer money that will hurt Maine's economy by raising electricity costs while impeding tourism, Maine's biggest industry.

Nisbet's report is already causing controversy: Among other things, he argues that, contrary to popular belief, greens weren't badly outspent by industry groups and that media coverage of climate science wasn't really a problem.

Proponents of the bill, such as the Hemp Industries Association and the nonprofit advocacy group Vote Hemp, argue that hemp products — including food, body care products and textiles — are a multimillion - dollar industry that could benefit California's economy by allowing the raw materials to be grown here instead of importing hemp from overseas.

The group argues that the so - called «beneficial - use industry» would be eliminated if a «hazardous» designation was given for coal ash waste.

Naomi Oreskes, a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, compares the strategy of these early groups to that of the tobacco industry, which for decades argued that cigarettes didn't cause cancer.

The group employed the research of Frederick Seitz — a fixture in the tobacco industry — to argue that CO2 was «NOT A Pollutant» but rather «Earth's Basic Building Block.»

The Lieberman - Warner bill proposed hundreds of billions in subsidies to the coal industry, but nevertheless ACCCE ran print and radio ads against it, calling it a «job killer» and arguing that any regulation of CO2 should be left to the states — even though the group also opposed state - based regulation.

Globally, limits on emissions seemed to be limits on prosperity and growth, and the defenders of the status quo — powerful industry groups, concentrations of sovereign wealth, and ideological warriors — argued that climate activists were seeking to sabotage the modern industrial economy.

The Council's founder and senior advisor is Jim Sims, a Colorado - based PR professional with the firm Policy Communications, who has overseen the development of a series of coalitions and front groups arguing for policies beneficial to the energy industry.

The electric utility industry, for example, through its voluntary ad - hoc organization, the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG), submitted comments in December 2014 that argued the Clean Air Act section 111 is so narrow that it only authorizes EPA to regulate source - based emissions.

For example, environmental groups have argued that developing carbon landfills will encourage industry to skip the «reduce» and «recycle» steps.

But the idea of «clean coal» — particularly as it has been marketed by industry — remains controversial among groups that are unsure if CCS will work and argue «clean coal» is still not as clean as alternative forms of solar or wind energy.

· Regulation is often preferred to economic incentives for two reasons: 1) industry prefers to protect plants that are already built, and 2) some environmental groups oppose taxes because they make the cost of environmental protection transparent, ie the very factor which others argue is a positive asset is seen by some as being negative.

The Cleantech Group argues that the electronic reader industry can make a significant impact once people start transitioning from paper media en masse: «A user that purchasers fewer than 22.5 books per year would take longer to neutralize the emissions resulting from the e-reader, and even longer to help reduce emissions attributed to the publishing industry,» according to the study.

«Of all the health issues surrounding smoking... the one that the tobacco industry has the most chance of winning [is to argue] that the evidence proclaimed by [anti-smoking groups] is flawed... It is highly desirable for us to control the focus of the debate.»

Comment: Some commenters, including several industry and consumer groups, argued that the proposed rule would establish a two - tiered system for public and private research.

Charles Lesson argues that the law is unconstitutional because it enables a private group (the Recording Industry Association of America) to carry out civil enforcement of a criminal law.

Supporters of this measure, including the EPP group, argue it «contributes to safeguarding quality journalism over fake news» by increasing news industry revenues.