Sentences with phrase «industry largesse»

So, rather than being the objects of $ 10 billion in wind industry largesse, power consumers are being lined up for an enormous, additional and — because there is already ample generating capacity to meet (declining) demand well into the future — completely unnecessary $ 2 billion hit in the hip pocket each and every year.

Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), who drafted DSHEA and disputes the widely held view that it shields the supplement industry from government scrutiny, was the biggest congressional recipient of industry largesse during the 2000 election cycle, with $ 41,750 in contributions, according to the center.

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And in a year in which the status quo at state Capitol is under assault from virtually every direction, Martland is calling on Breslin to return the insurance largesse, labeling it a fundamental conflict of interest that he accepts such a large portion of his campaign war chest from an industry he's supposed to be regulating.

Republican Senators do tend to benefit more from the largesse of the real estate industry and corporations that use the LLC loophole to subvert the state's donation limits.

Other key senators are beneficiaries of the largesse of the privatization industry's campaign cash machine.

Just as the tobacco industry was required to pay compensation to the public for health damage of smoking, so the fossil fuel industry should be required to pay, in view of the great largesse it has received from the public and the damage it is inflicting on young people and worldwide.

Both Murkowski and Scott have been notorious opponents of many of the Obama administration's environmental protection initiatives and have also been on the receiving end of the dirty energy industry's largesse.

The wind industry rushed to Ontario to enjoy the largesse of government support via a government program that granted above - market payments for intermittent and unreliable power.

In this more recent case of largesse, the mayor will give Environmental Defense Fund $ 6 million to carry out the «strategy of securing strong rules and developing industry best practices in the 14 states with 85 percent of the country's unconventional gas reserves.»