Sentences with phrase «lobby against the ban»
It's not good news for the American Chemistry Council, which had sent a representative to a Putnam County legislature meeting to lobby against the ban.
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And while Hamm is supporting oil - related sanctions on Venezuela, U.S. refiners and Republican Senators from Gulf Coast states are actively lobbying against potential bans.
Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.
Back in 2014, the British Parking Association (BPA) was busy lobbying against proposals to ban the use of CCTV and ANPR by local authorities for parking enforcement, including the use of cameras for parking enforcement outside schools which could potentially put children's lives at stake.
The Ethics Pledge contains a specific commitment to adhere to a ban against accepting gifts from registered lobbyists or lobbying organizations during the period of service as an appointee.
Supporters of Heartland will be surprised to learn that we «worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question or deny the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans,» that we «support climate change denial,» or that our decision to spin off our work on finance and insurance into the R Street Institute is characterized as the «resignation of almost the entire Heartland Washington D.C. office, taking the Institute's biggest project (on insurance) with it.»
It fought to weaken clean air standards, [37] lobbied against the Kyoto Protocol, and opposed a hazardous waste dumping ban.
In an email to employees sent on Monday afternoon, Bezos said that Amazon would be putting its legal and lobbying efforts behind the fight against the ban.