Sentences with phrase «large coalition of groups»

The Sierra Club and a large coalition of groups — including Earthjustice, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Patuxent Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, Shenandoah Riverkeeper, and Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper — have been fighting this plan since its announcement because it means a massive expansion of natural gas fracking.

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«I think it's too early to make any judgments on what I would call the very short opening statement, and we'll see what happens as we go forward,» Gerard told reporters at a conference of the BlueGreen Alliance, a coalition of large labor unions and environmental groups.

A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.

Ceres is the largest U.S. coalition of investor groups, environmental organizations, and investment funds that engages directly with companies on environmental and social issues.

In the latter state, after the large Western International Conference on Economic Dislocation last fall, a statewide coalition of eight local groups was formed.

A coalition of labor unions, religious groups, and others are urging Governor Cuomo and the legislature to close what they say are loopholes in the law that protect large corporations from paying their fair share of taxes.

Koo, the Chinese - born founder of a chain of Flushing drugstores and head of the Chinese Business Association, was busy building his own coalition in Flushing Monday, accepting the support of Korean Americans for Peter Koo, a group of leaders that represents one of the largest populations in the neighborhood.

Congratulations also goes to the large coalition of labor unions, business groups, transit and environmental advocates and good government groups that supported passage of the bill this session, and identical bills in 2011.

ELDR Group leader Graham Watson MEP denounced the grand coalition in 2007 and expressed a desire to ensure that the posts of Commission President, Council President, Parliament President and High Representative were not divided based on agreement between the two largest groups to the exclusion of third parties.

A Specific Affordable Housing Plan A large group of churchgoers, NYCHA residents, senior citizens, and advocates recently rallied near City Hall to push for an affordable housing plan from the Metro - IAF coalition led by two Brooklyn pastors and affordable housing builders.

The top priority for the state's largest nurses» union — what supporters call a «safe staffing» law — is facing new pressure from a coalition of business groups, hospitals and some nurses who say staffing ratios are the wrong prescription for New York hospitals.

Also at 6 p.m., a large coalition of environmental and civic groups opposed to the Port Ambrose offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility will call for Cuomo to veto the project at a rally outside of a fundraiser the governor will attend at the Harvard Club, (which is not on his public schedule), 35 West 44th St., Manhattan.

Two key House committees began formally drafting a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, even as the nation's largest doctors» group and a coalition of hospitals came out strongly against the Republican plan for replacing the law.

The largest donations to political candidates or groups was a $ 6,000 consulting fee paid to the Unity Coalition, a political group on Buffalo's East Side, followed by $ 2,260 for Byron Brown for Mayor and $ 1,360 for print advertisements and donations to the Grassroots political organization, a longtime supporter of the mayor.

A large group of area residents, members of the Hudson Valley Black Lives Matter Coalition and members of Samuel Harrell's family marched down Market Street in Poughkeepsie to the Dutchess County District Attorney's Office Thursday.

A large coalition of parent and educator groups in New York State developed a scorecard for voters in the Democratic primary on September 9 and the general elections in November.

In 2012, Republicans again faced the prospect of being in the minority, but formed a coalition with the Independent Democratic Conference, a five - member group that infuriated the larger Democratic caucus by siding with the Republicans.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

Many would complain that a coalition of the second and fourth largest parties would be «undemocratic,» but in our representative system it is the grouping that can win a confidence vote in the House of Commons that forms the government.

A large coalition of environmental, labor, and business groups had pushed the Senate to include such a measure, known as an RES, in its so - called Spill Bill (pdf), a response to the Deepwater Horizon well blowout.

While FUNAI's medical officials worked with the tribe, another group of researchers has tentatively identified their culture: The tribe in question may be part of a larger group of Chitonahua people, says Adam Bauer - Goulden, president of the Rainforest Rescue Coalition in Chicago, Illinois.

On Saturday, he'll speak to the nation's largest gay rights group, part of an effort to re-energize the coalition that helped send him to the White House.

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.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

Meanwhile, a coalition of charter groups continues to work behind the scenes with the school district's charter division to figure out ways to simplify the procedures and language for the largest charter authorizer in the country.

But the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers» union and a coalition member, expressed relief that the state is challenging Moukawsher, a reflection of the disparate views likely to emerge from a group that includes labor and management.

In support of the film Waiting for «Superman,» Myles helped lead the development of the «Done Waiting» coalition, which with 200 groups, at the time, represented the largest collective effort of education reformers in national history.

The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.

This promotion encourages the community to strengthen the work of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition to prevent unplanned litters from entering local shelters, by targeting the animal groups that account for the largest portion of San Diego County's stray population.

Since 2012, Best Friends has been working with a group of more than 120 coalition partners, including LA Animal Services, as part of its No Kill Los Angeles initiative with a goal of making LA the nation's largest no kill city by the end of 2017.

Seven lucky dogs and six lucky cats arrived in Napa on Sunday, Sept. 17, part of a larger group of pets rescued from chaotic, post-hurricane conditions in Houston by a coalition of animal care organizations.

This combination of events and lack of critical response led to the formation of ASAP, the Artist Studio Affordability Project, a group of artists who are working to build a larger coalition of artists and working class neighbors who are losing space.

#StillIn Petition Delivery Wednesday, November 15th 14:00 - 15:00 Copenhagen Dome Following the announcement on the Paris Agreement, a large, diverse coalition of progressive groups launched a citizen petition to tell the international community that the US will lead on climate regardless of federal actions.

Chris Davis, director of investor programs at Ceres, a coalition of large investors and environmental groups, said it would be wonderful if divestment raises the profile of climate change among lawmakers in Washington.

A federal appeals court sided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a large coalition of citizen groups in upholding an Obama administration policy to scrutinize pollution from severe mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.

Tarcísio Feitosa documented extensive illegal logging and helped a grassroots environmental coalition create the world's largest group of protected tropical forest regions.

Working in coalition, these groups and individuals are campaigning to create a large system of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean.

The Sierra Club is part of a large, diverse coalition of community groups — Clean Power Chicago — that have long been working to either clean up or shut down the Fisk and Crawford plants because of the pollution they spew into the air.

We need a viable coalition for efficiently and adequately addressing emissions reductions, consisting of a group small enough to avoid the unworkability of full universal multilateralism and, at the same time, large enough to significantly address the issue.

And in a June 23 newsletter to members, the Doctors Company — the nation's largest physician - owned medical malpractice insurer — said its group and other members of the coalition «worked to draft new federal medical liability legislation.»

Toronto — The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), Canada's largest coalition of migrant worker groups and allies, is calling for immediate changes to the moratorium imposed on temporary foreign workers (TFW) in the food industry.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 22, 2009: The Coalition for Patent Fairness, a group of 13 small and large technology and innovation companies, issued the following statement following the introduction of S. 299, legislation that establishes a pilot program in district courts for the purpose of enhancing the patent expertise of judges:

This can be part of a larger committee, community network or coalition as long as the group includes a regular focus on the Parents as Teachers affiliate.

The Coalition for Sensible Housing Policy is a diverse coalition of 52 consumer organizations, civil rights groups, lenders, housing and real estate professionals that share the goal of attracting private capital back to the mortgage market for all American households, including low - wealth families that can not afford a large downCoalition for Sensible Housing Policy is a diverse coalition of 52 consumer organizations, civil rights groups, lenders, housing and real estate professionals that share the goal of attracting private capital back to the mortgage market for all American households, including low - wealth families that can not afford a large downcoalition of 52 consumer organizations, civil rights groups, lenders, housing and real estate professionals that share the goal of attracting private capital back to the mortgage market for all American households, including low - wealth families that can not afford a large down payment.