Sentences with phrase «leading public interest groups»

The bills were strongly supported by leading public interest groups and garnered support from more than a dozen editorials.

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The political approach was used in the struggles of public - interest groups, with church organizations in the lead, to achieve media reform during the l960s and 1970s.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Reformers, including Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group, said they hope the verdict will finally spur Cuomo and lawmakers to fix flaws in the system that led to the conviction.

With the greatest respect once again, we of the Public Interest Advocacy Group (PIAG) call on the leadership of our august house to facilitate with adequate speed, all processes leading to making the Joe Ghartey Committee Report on the bribery scandal that was alleged to have hit Ghana's Parliamentary House.

Late in the day, the New York Public Interest Research Group also came out against the legislature's bills, saying, in a statement, «We can not say with confidence that it will lead to a better product in the form of fairer district lines».

Reformers, including Blair Horner with the New York Public Interest Research Group, say they hope the verdict will finally spur Cuomo and lawmakers to fix flaws in the system that led to the conviction.

While the reform alliance provided data showing trial lawyers» campaign contributions were tops among influence blocs, the New York Public Interest Research Group put teacher unions far in the lead in combined lobbying and campaign donations.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, says that will lead to charges, by some, that the investigation is tainted.

«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

But Jim Angell, lead attorney for the Oakland, Calif. — based public interest law firm Earthjustice, which represents a host of environmental groups suing the BLM, says this 1 percent stipulation is «an accounting trick.

He says: «There is a temptation also for the (public) interest groups to follow and profit from the excited state of public opinion, rather than seek to educate and lead it in a «rational» direction, and who is entitled to claim a monopoly on the definition of rationality?»

A study in 2004 by the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups found that 79 percent of all credit reports had some kind of mistake and that 1 in 4 reports had errors so serious they could lead to denial of credit.

PDF Report shows Canada needs a Financial Consumer Code TORONTO, March 20, 2018 — Two of Canada's leading consumer groups, FAIR Canada and the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), today welcomed a government report that confirmed major Canadian banks incentivize their employees to «mis - sell» unsuitable financial products to Canadians.

«Electoral intervention is not supposed to be a non-profit's main activity, but these dark money groups are abusing their tax - exempt status by existing primarily as vehicles for corporations and wealthy donors to secretly influence elections,» Fischer noted, adding, «Some dark money non-profits might now use lobbying as an accounting trick to balance their books between electoral and non-electoral spending, leading to a spiraling cycle of non-stop campaigning and special interest influence, but with zero transparency or public accountability.»

The Government Accountability Project, a 29 - year - old nonprofit public interest group, is the Nation's leading whistleblower protection organization.

The result is a textbook example of how free markets unencumbered by unjustified government controls and intrusive intervention by special interest groups can still lead to revolutionary changes in the technology used in important economic sectors and to huge benefits for the public.

Prior to joining Forum, Iain spent 7 years working at Ceres, a leading U.S. coalition of investment funds, environmental organisations and other public interest groups.

giving a qualified endorsement of an update to a 1986 privacy law that leading cloud - service providers, public - interest groups and others argue is woefully out of step with the current methods of sending and storing communications.

[P] ublic interest groups and the public in general, when given access to these public records, are able to provide the kind of feedback that leads to the correction of these privacy issues.

The blog has led to speaking engagements, media opportunities, and potential clients for our group's public interest litigation division.

Prior to leading FAIR, Mr. Stein was the Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest litigation group that has represented a variety of organizations in immigration and administrative law matters.

Tell local public and private agencies that you are looking for interested people to help lead your group.

Under a settlement agreement between the EPA and various public interest groups, the EPA is required to develop regulations that establish lead safe work practices for renovation, repair and painting (RRP) activities for commercial and public buildings.