Sentences with phrase «interesting coalition of groups»

An interesting coalition of groups have teamed up to put pressure on the state to lower mandates costs for municipalities.

Not exact matches

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

One of the Coalition's first initiatives has been circulating a Pledge for interested citizen groups and organizations to sign.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

This The National Interest on ABC Radio National and indeed listening in to that conversation is Jane Martin, the senior policy adviser with the Obesity Policy Coalition; it's a group of Victorian health organisations.

In the UK, Baby Milk Action is the secretariat for the Baby Feeding Law Group, a coalition of leading health professional and mother support groups and a founder of the Conflict of Interest Ccoalition of leading health professional and mother support groups and a founder of the Conflict of Interest CoalitionCoalition.

The Conflicts of Interest Coalition / Network is an international campaign by hundreds of groups and networks calling for policy making to be free from commercial influence.

~ ~ The Texas Breastfeeding Coalition is a consortium of breastfeeding promotion groups, organizations that work with mothers and babies, and interested individuals from across the state.

These campaign ‐ style battles are being waged through an increasing number of «veiled actors» third ‐ party coalitions with misleading names that ask voters to «Save New York» or fight for «Fiscal Fairness» without revealing the powerful interest groups behind these messages.

Gradually, the NDC is abandoning its core ideological value and becoming a pragmatic coalition of interest group just like the NPP.

Despite years of work by individual senators, representatives and and advocacy groups, global warming bills have always stalled in the Congress, killed off by well organized interest groups, industry coalitions and congressmembers from districts seen as being harmed.

Coalitions are often seen as a danger for policymaking, but from a consensual point of view, they are useful in protecting the interests of diverse groups in a divided society like Turkey.

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Common Cause and a coalition of reform groups, including the League of Women Voters, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany recommend reinstating the state Comptroller's role as a watchdog over state contractors.

Renting an entire apartment for 30 days or fewer is illegal in New York, and Airbnb has faced opposition from a broad coalition of interest groups including hotel operators and unions, tenants groups and affordable - housing advocates.

This is shaping up to be a showdown between the developer, The Related Companies (and other powerful developers with similar interests) who will be backed by the Bloomberg administration and a coalition of Bronx elected officials and community groups.

The group, along with CitizenLink and its coalition of state - based family policy councils, questioned Trump's stances on issues such as abortion and same - sex marriage (which tended in the past to be liberal) as well his gambling and casino interests.

A coalition of groups including the New York Public Interest Research Group and Food & Water Watch announced Wednesday the launch of a campaign aimed at blocking a planned surcharge on utility bills that was a key component of the state's new Clean Energy Standard regulations.

The latest push comes from an unusual coalition of progressive labor interests, political (Democratic Party, that is) and environmental groups, health care interests and good government advocates who are urging Cuomo to enact a «voluntary» public campaign finance system early in the 2011 legislative session — one of the many camapign promises outlined in his «New New York Agenda» books.

Fringe causes were put before mainstream concerns, with many in the party seriously accepting the flawed logic that stapling together a collection of special interest groups would create a counterweight to Thatcher's electoral coalition of aspirational voters.

Further, a coalition of six good - government groups wrote to the board demanding a revision to the 1996 opinion — they were the Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, Citizens Union, the New York Public Interest Research Group and Reinvent Albany.

About 200 protesters, under the aegis of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups, in Abuja on Thursday, warned those they called fifth columnists, sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government to address the current economic recession, to desist in their own interest.

Dan Fitzsimmons, president of the Joint Landowner Coalition of New York, says his group of 77,000 landowners is happy that the Cuomo administration rejected demands from what he calls «special interests» to conduct an independent health review.

British Politics Group Quarterly... this book offers many interesting insights into the workings of the British constitution, how far the negotiations to create the coalition conform to expected constitutional norms, and how far the government has altered or seeks to alter the constitution.

The Coalition is taking on all sorts of interest groups as part of its radical zeal but it has made the strategic decision that it will do nothing to upset pensioners, the most active voting bloc.

Adebayo said «All Progressives Congress is a coalition of different political groups and interests and this is the first time there will be a serious gubernatorial contest under the platfor;, the second term of Ogbeni Aregbesola came at the formative stage of the party hence every interested individual should be allowed to put whatever ideas they have for the growths of the State on the table and allow the party to decide who flies its flags according to the laid down rules of the party's constitution; the zoning should be outrightly jettisoned as it is alien to our party's constitution».

The group which is a coalition of 42 registered political parties vowed to cooperate with INEC to ensure it fulfil its mandate in the interest of the nation's democracy.

In a statement, a coalition of good government groups and civic groups including Reinvent Albany, the Sunlight Foundation, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest praised the website, which they said could save taxpayers $ 12 million a year in reduced FOIL processing fees when fully implemented by all city agencies.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

American political parties used to be shifting coalitions of interest groups.

Worried about a «tsunami» of e-waste when new TV standards take effect on February 17, e-waste public interest groups the Basel Action Network (BAN) and the Electronics Take Back Coalition have launched a new program that will independently audit and certify electronics recyclers.

From hosting a webinar series on the use of specific scientific methods to support human rights research, to the development of teaching materials to integrate human rights into STEM curricula, from assessing the extent to which marginalized populations are represented in STEM fields, to cultivating a human rights interest group within a member organization, there are many ways in which Coalition members can further the mission of the Coalition within their communities, organizations and in collaboration with others.

Participants in the coalition — 1000 Friends of New Mexico, Greater Albuquerque Spokespeople, New Mexico Public Interest Research Group, Sage Council, and Southwest Research and Information Center — have been active in the Quail Ranch case since the mid-1990s.

A coalition of Texas public - interest groups, education organizations, and unions this month called on the Reagan Administration to order the Environmental Protection Agency to play a more active role in the removal of asbestos from school buildings.

This raises a bunch of interesting questions about how these groups will coexist and who will help broaden their school reform coalitions.

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, a coalition of education professors and interest - group leaders, including the heads of the country's two largest teachers unions, have concluded that family income itself determines whether or not a child learns.

A powerful coalition of rights groups, business interests, teachers and magnet school parents prevailed over conservatives who would have allowed schools in Wake County to become resegregated.

In addition to the Student Teach - In and rally, the Student Voice Team will launch a coalition of local March for Our Lives rallies and other interested groups to coordinate the local rallies and statewide action.

Can a diverse coalition of interest groups not only come together to enact, but also to dismantle, a reform?

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Recognized as a top expert on parent involvement, she frequently receives calls from federal policymakers with questions about research and trends, and she works with groups like the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education, which she helped found, to advocate for legislation that protects the interests of parents.

The topic was chosen as a result of discussions that were held by special interest groups at annual meetings of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education and at meetings of the National Technology Leadership Coalition in 2007 and 2008.

Whatever rank and file union members might think, the reality is that UFT and other unions like 1199SEIU have a long history of participating in the broader coalition of liberal urban interest groups.

The list of interest groups touting phonics includes the Republican Party, the Christian Coalition, the American Family Association, and the Eagle Forum (Burnett, 1998).

This drew an immediate legal response from an unprecedented coalition of 14 industry trade groups, representing divergent interests in energy policy.

During that time he was oblivious to the attacks on Ben Santer being waged by S. Fred Singer, Frederick Seitz, Patrick Michaels, Global Climate Coalition (a group of fossil fuel interests) and others because Santer's (and others) research showed that humans were in fact causing climate to change (IPCC 2nd Assessment, 1995).

Some electric utilities continue to back special interest groups — including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, American Legislative Exchange Council, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Utility Air Regulatory Group — that mislead on climate science and / or oppose legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate change.

A highly orchestrated, secretly foreign - funded group of Australian environmental activists opposing the $ 16 billion Adani coalmine in Queensland has «dampened» Indian investment interest in Australia and received heated criticism from the federal Coalition and Queensland Labor governments.

(The original coalition included Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, World Resources Institute, and World Wildlife Fund.)