Sentences with phrase «lobbying against»

The fallout from those revelations acted as a counterweight to high level U.S. lobbying against strengthening privacy protections.

TurboTax's brand - name domination of the tax - return category has led Intuit to make some not - so - customer - friendly moves, including lobbying against the simplification of tax laws.

SBC lobbying against municipal wireless is like verizon lobbying they needed more spectrum in the late 1990s.

There has been no agitation or lobbying against these unfair administrative rules.

A USA Today story published Wednesday reports that Biden worked to defeat a bipartisan bill designed to curb asbestos lawsuits at a time his older son Beau's law firm was filing asbestos cases and a former aide was lobbying against the measure.

At the end of 1997, it was listed by Mother Jones magazine among alleged front «astroturf groups that are lobbying against the Kyoto global warming treaty.»

Business is very involved in trying to influence policy, such as lobbying against all sorts of regulations or against raising the minimum wage.

From the activities of the Koch brothers lobbying octopus in opposing any environmental constraints on business, to the vast subsidies the oil industry maintains even as profits are at record levels, to dirty tricks lobbying against meaningful climate action.

Dead American billionaires had spent as much as $ 30 million a year lobbying against coal and gas in Europe, leading to the celebrated cancellation of the replacement of Kingsnorth power station.

In other words, ExxonMobil's lobbying against carbon tax proposals in Massachusetts occurred largely behind the scenes.

Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN secretary - general told a business conference on Sunday.

Granted, there are companies lobbying against emission cuts because it could cost them money, but there's plenty of potential for profit in the campaign against global warming, and energy companies are already angling for their cut.

After all, U.S. corporations continue to fund their multi-million-dollar lobbying against health care and energy reform.

This comes at the same time that United is being called out by industry watchdogs for its major role in lobbying against new regulations to begin curbing the massive amounts of climate pollution the airline industry is responsible for.

(9) Though it's little comfort to the people living in there, these cases are the natural outcome of decades of under - regulation, lack of enforcement and lobbying against better building standards.

APS is not alone in lobbying against net metering policy, their proposed changes mimic ALEC's new model legislation that was crafted, at least in part, by EEI.

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

While the brash brand of direct interference into the public discourse on scientific findings about global warming and associated harmful impacts we saw from Exxon operatives in the 1980s and 1990s has now morphed into a more passive, less - visible form of tampering — such as the company's continued stream of donations (some alleged to be illegal) to groups known for lobbying against and often shooting down federal and state - level proposals to promote renewable energy and limit carbon emissions — perhaps Avery will be able to persuade the new corporate leadership team to stop funding these groups altogether.

A strong ethical case can be made that any political support for natural gas as a short - term bridge fuel should be conditioned on the natural gas industry promising to stop lobbying against rapid scale up of renewable energy programs.

For instance, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times reported that the scientists advising the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), a now defunct organization that spent millions of dollars in lobbying against climate change policies and whose members were primarily corporations whose operations or products were large producers of greenhouse gases, reported to the GCC that:

«More and more, we're seeing companies rely on their trade groups to do their dirty work of lobbying against comprehensive climate policies,» she said.

Organizers are concerned about Canada's relentless lobbying against a key piece of EU climate policy, the Fuel Quality Directive, which aims to reduce imports of highly polluting fuels such as tar sands and synthetic oil from coal into Europe.

The petition calls on WTTG General Manger Patrick Paolini to fire Miller for spending «most of her career openly lobbying against the District's gun laws,» instead of avoiding political activities that undermine her independence and impartiality as a journalist.

The Global Climate Coalition was so spectacularly successful in lobbying against Kyoto that it was «deactivated» in 2001 - its work complete.

«EEI was lobbying against it and so was Duke Energy.»

This includes not lobbying against the Green Job Principles and self - disclosing any lobbying efforts.

By killing nearly every animal that comes in its front door (and lobbying against No Kill reforms throughout the country), PETA is, in reality, aiding and abetting the continuation of the large - scale animal - production industry.

Granting dogs personhood rights would protect them from the exploitations rescue workers and volunteers spend their time lobbying against.

As such, the charities are lobbying against efforts to further fund and extend CARS, which is currently set to expire on November 1.

Groups that are lobbying against families — that's really what they do.

Rep. Pat Nelson, R - Southaven, said the endorsement of the bill by The Parents Campaign, which had been lobbying against it, as one factor that pushed it toward passage.

The NAACP vote came after intense lobbying against the resolution from the industry and its allies, including editorials in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, a letter from black pro-charter legislators from California (where the sector gets almost anything it wants), and out - of - state protesters who were bused in and interrupted the NAACP's proceedings.

Teachers unions had spent the weekend lobbying against the plan, and afterward the Chicago Teachers Union called it an «assault» on public education.

A number of other ed reform groups are lobbying against the bill, including Educators 4 Excellence, Students First and Alliance for a Better Community.

But the California School Boards Association, the Association of California School Administrators and the California Association of School Business Officials are actively lobbying against the proposal saying its passage will drive up construction costs for school projects and tend to undermine promises districts made to voters to complete some improvement projects.

By lobbying against good charter legislation and fair funding (see Figure 1), financing anti-charter studies and propaganda, filing lawsuits, and engaging the public battle of ideas, teacher unions and other charter opponents openly wage what might be called an «air war» against charters.

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.

And at the same time he was lobbying against the arsenic assessment, he was lobbying to delay all chemical assessments, about 50 in all.»»

This morning's NutritionFacts.org video - of - the - day Medical Associations Oppose Bill to Mandate Nutrition Training exposes the fact that many mainstream medical organizations are actively opposing and lobbying against mandating more nutrition for doctors.

Imran Khan, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), which has led the lobbying against the caps, said: «I'm delighted that the government and the UK Border Agency in particular have listened and responded to our concerns.»

She resents the way members of the scientific committee are now lobbying against it.

In the case of Bland v. Roberts, an employee was fired for «liking» a campaign lobbying against his boss.

Business groups had been lobbying against continuing the tax on the wealthy, while unions and other advocates for the minimum wage say a three - year phase in is too long for working people to wait.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Cuomo spent months lobbying against the tax plan, which he has denounced in apocalyptic language, calling it «an economic civil war» that will put the state at a structural disadvantage when it comes to competing for jobs.

A group called No East Greenbush Casino is lobbying against the proposed project and has also hired an attorney, and is threatening to sue.

But Department of Health emails show that during and after the consultation the alcohol industry was still lobbying against the policy itself in a series of meetings with ministers from which health experts were excluded.

ALBANY — The spiritual leader of millions of Catholics in New York was at the Capitol Tuesday lobbying against a push to give a one - year window for alleged child abuse victims to sue for damages dating back decades.

From both a cost - savings perspective and a moral perspective, these companies should stand with survivors and help facilitate the healing process, instead of protecting institutions that put children in harm's way and lobbying against this legislation,» said Michael Polenberg, Vice President of Government Affairs at Safe Horizon.

According to the group's filing with the Commission on Public Integrity, NOM spent $ 735,963 in May and June lobbying against the same - sex marriage legislation.