Sentences with phrase «industry lobby groups»

While projecting a public image of a caring mining company Rio pays industry lobby groups to do the dirty work.

He has also been a frequent speaker with leading coal and energy companies as well as coal and other industry lobby groups.

Of course, none of those organizations should be confused with Connecticut's other Pro-Charter School and Corporate Education Reform Industry lobby groups which include Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER) or their new front - group called the Connecticut School Finance Project.

DAIRY industry lobby groups are assessing if the move for processors to include incentives in opening milk price announcements is in contravention of the new voluntary code of conduct.

Western Australia's peak industry lobby group has repeated its call for the federal government to come up with credible evidence to support its proposed changes to the 457 visa program for temporary s

An industry lobbying group in North Dakota, where fracking is common, said the industry is doing what it can, but some mistakes are inevitable.

There's nothing new about a Democratic presidential nominee seeking to close the loophole (Barack Obama campaigned on this in both 2008 and 2012), but Trump's endorsement puts industry lobbying groups in an unfamiliar position of having to persuade both parties to maintain the status quo.

In a draft letter from the Futures Industry Association — the industry lobby group whose members include banks such as JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs — to the CFTC, the implementation of bitcoin futures contracts «did not allow for proper public transparency and input,» reports the Financial Times, who have reportedly seen the draft.

CAPP, the industry lobby group was unavailable for comment, which makes me think the CEOs finally told CAPP to button up.

Mr. Protti is the founding President of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and at that time was a registered lobbyist for the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, an energy industry lobby group.

Minimum wage increases are opposed by the large industry lobbying groups, including the National Retail Federation and the National Restaurant Association.

One of the members of this Panel — Brenda Kenny — has worked for the NEB in senior positions and then joined the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association ultimately becoming President of this industry lobby group.

Apparently a few weeks ago, the Corn Refiners Association, an industry lobbying group, held a conference call for «mommy bloggers» to «educate» them about high fructose corn syrup.

The National Fisheries Institute, an industry lobbying group, promotes the food pyramid on the front page of its Web site, highlighting the government's suggestion to consume more fish.

The controversy caused the consultant in question to sever all ties with a gas industry lobby group.

But Vaughn Jennings, spokesman for Airlines for America, an industry lobbying group, said federal law prohibits states and localities from enacting bills dealing with airlines» rates, routes and services.

Cherie Messore, with the Independent Oil and Gas Association, a gas industry lobby group that is helping pay for the ads, says the spots are aimed at showing there's support for fracking.

Nuclear fuel processing, the work that would have been done at the proposed Jiangmen project, poses little risk to public health, according to industry experts and the industry lobby group, the World Nuclear Association.

last spring when the education reform industry lobby group, A Better Connecticut, spent money on a poll to test various messages to promote Malloy and then over $ 2 million on campaign advertisements «thanking» Malloy for his leadership in promoting charter schools and the privatization of public education.

Families for Excellent Schools is the corporate funded, New York based, charter school industry lobbying group that bused in students and parents from as far away as New York City and Boston, last year, to attend a rally in support of Governor Dannel Malloy's effort to divert even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

While this decision was applauded by industry lobbying groups for the housing industry, it made QM loans even riskier.

«This is the single most important decision facing the solar industry in the United States today,» said Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of industry lobbying group the California Solar Energy Industries Association.

He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had» triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying group...

I guess that's why, when the section dealing with how global warming could affect North American tourism got written, the IPCC chose to quote a dollar amount plucked from... drumroll please... a press release issued by an industry lobby group — in this case the International Snowmobile Manufacturers Association.

FracFocus's operational costs are paid for by the oil and gas industry lobbying groups American Petroleum Institute (API) and America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA).

They should be re-classified from tax - exempt public charity to industry lobby group.

Last year, United Airlines, along with the airline industry lobby group, Airlines for America, led the way on a massive lobbying effort on Capitol Hill to try to kill a plan that would see US airline companies participate in the European Union's climate law for all their flights to and from Europe.

Though McKibben and Browner both support climate action, they differ on means, as McKibben has expressed skepticism about nuclear power's cost while Browner serves on the Leadership Council of industry lobbying group Nuclear Matters.

-- According to the Calgary Herald, Travis Davies, spokesman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canada's largest oil and gas industry lobby group, industry is pleased with the draft report.

In March, 2000, however, the campaign suffered a serious setback when the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry lobbying group, suffered major defections.

And, importantly, the role that «tort reform» and the highly partisan industry lobby group, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have played in judicial elections for years.

«People make the assumption if the doctor orders it, it's going to be covered,» says J.P. Wieske of the Council for Affordable Insurance, an insurance industry lobbying group.

While this decision was applauded by industry lobbying groups for the housing industry, it made QM loans even riskier.»

Not exact matches

The industry's lobby group does regular demographic check - ups to see who is playing video games and the results are always informative.

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

Fueled by contracts on the VIX, the Cboe Futures Exchange handled 56 million contracts during the first three quarters of 2017, according to data compiled by the Futures Industry Association, the industry's trade and lobbyinIndustry Association, the industry's trade and lobbyinindustry's trade and lobbying group.

The American Petroleum Institute, the principal lobbying group for the industry, said its members are working to become less dependent on fresh water, and instead draw on other sources.

Signs are emerging that companies and investors are starting to push back against the gun industry and its main lobbying group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), in the wake of last week's Florida high school shooting.

Lobbying groups such as the Telecommunications Industry Association say prioritization is critical to doing business.

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- A lobby group representing Germany's glass fiber industry says a European merger between Vodafone and Liberty Global should be blocked because it would create a cable TV monopoly in Germany.

The industry's biggest lobbying group, PhRMA, has also remained mum.

The industry now has almost as many lobby groups representing its views on NAFTA as the transport sector, which includes automakers.

But it's widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have faced intense lobbying campaigns by patient groups and the biopharma industry.

FWD.us, which is the tech industry's group that lobbies for comprehensive immigration reform, has also made DACA a main focus.

As executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Los Angeles - based lobby group for the porn business, Duke, who previously worked for Planned Parenthood, leads many of the industry's anti-piracy efforts.

The Internet Association, a D.C. - based tech lobbying group representing industry titans like Google, Amazon, and Twitter, will be filing legal arguments as an intervening party in support of the legal push to restore net neutrality, according to a report from Recode's Tony Romm.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

An article on Thursday about threats against critics of the video game industry misstated, at one point, part of the name of a lobbying group for video game companies.

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

The most elite group, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and Walgroup, known as the Statesmen, whose members donated $ 250,000, included Aetna; Coca - Cola; Exxon Mobil; Koch Companies Public Sector, the lobbying arm of the highly political Koch Industries; Microsoft; Pfizer; UnitedHealth Group; and WalGroup; and Walmart.