Sentences with phrase «lobbying company»

They recommend lobbying companies to find alternatives to plastic, especially environmentally safe, reusable packaging.

Hari is known for lobbying companies to remove ingredients she believes are toxic, including the «yoga mat chemical» in Subway's bread, class IV caramel color in Starbucks» Pumpkin Spice Lattes, and «antifreeze» in beer.

The Executive Director of CCER is a registered lobbyist and the organization retains one of the state's better known lobbying companies.

While cities often play up their strengths for tourism, it's unusual to see major cities lobby a company so unabashedly.

His confident statement suggested he was certain Crosby Textor Fullbrook, Crosby's UK lobbying company, was not among those which he had earlier had met with DoH officials.

Lord Moonie was fast - tracked by government appointments watchdog the advisory committee on business appointments to work with Sovereign Strategy, a Labour donating lobbying company which ignores a voluntary code of conduct not to pay or employ politicians.

A group of environmental campaigners have temporarily occupied the premises of lobbying company Endelman.

Downing Street was forced to announce that Hill will sell his shares in his former lobbying company after a backlash in the European parliament against his nomination.

Katie Myler, a former special adviser to Burnham when he was health secretary, now works for international lobbying company, Burson - Marsteller.

The extent to which government plans to regulate lobbyists will leave the industry unaffected are revealed by new figures which show that business ministers held 988 meetings with outside organisations in 2012, and just two with a formally defined lobbying company.

Because she has ideals, however, she bolts from that group together with four others and joins an anti-gun lobby company run by Rodolfo Schmidt (Mark Strong).

A loose - knit brigade of Internet users lobbied the company to pull an advertising campaign on the game website Gamasutra because it had run an essay attacking the male dominance of games culture.

UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew was there, as were Christopher Monckton, a prominent climate change denier, and Canadian Tom Harris, executive director of the «International Climate Science Coalition» — and former operations director of the «High Park Group», a Canadian lobbying company.

The minister had been forced to correct a statement to the Senate earlier in the week in which she asserted that Furnival had «no connection whatsoever» with the lobbying company Australian Public Affairs (APA).

It was reported at the time that O'Shaughnessy failed to inform Acoba that he was joining the lobbying company Portland as its chief policy adviser.

He became an associate director and consultant for the lobbying company in December 2004, having stood down as defence minister in July 2003.

In Washington, DeLay's name is frequently mentioned in connection with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, especially considering that his wife worked for a lobbying company to which Abramoff regularly referred business.

Bill was a partner and co-owner of The McAdam Group, a lobbying company specializing in elements of education policy, and was a consultant to Primezyme, Inc., a nutrition and healing clinic.

While it's a good thing to lobby companies to use less packaging and to choose items with less packaging, change will take time in that direction and in the meanwhile, families will continue to produce plastic waste that needs bagging.

Rankings are based on input from members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers, senior White House aides, professional lobbyists, and top - ranking members of lobbying groups and lobbying companies.