Sentences with phrase «lobbying efforts over»

And it wasn't afraid to put its money where its mouth is, either, sinking roughly $ 190,000 into lobbying efforts over the spring and summer of 2011.

Kinder Morgan's Alberta lobbying efforts over the past nine months focused exclusively on the Trans Mountain expansion, seeking, amongst other objectives, to «convey economic importance and benefits of the proposed Trans Mountain Expansion Project through increase market access for Alberta crude oil products.»

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While collecting this type of information can be valuable to business owners, if the collective outcry over the NSA's data - mining efforts is any indicator then customers may have a negative knee - jerk reaction to having their movements tracked and recorded every time they go to a coffee shop or pass through a hotel lobby.

It has, over the last five years, stepped up its lobbying efforts in Washington.

All together, these combined BC and federal lobbying efforts total 826 contacts over six years (not to mention those in Alberta that we do not have information about).

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

A squabble is now developing over who will take credit for moves to force lobby firms to declare who is paying for their efforts to sway government ministers.

But the UFC has over the years funded a campaign and lobbying effort to bring the sport to the New York City and upstate markets, with the company planning an event later this year at Madison Square Garden.

Both Uber and Lyft have conducted an extensive public lobbying campaign over the last year to expand services, especially in upstate cities like Buffalo, which is being countered by an effort to block the measure by upstate taxi and livery companies.

F.E.S., which has helped organize several massive pro-charter rallies over the past year, spent all its money on lobbying efforts, the Capital analysis found.

According to two people familiar with the lobbying efforts, Mack has contacted GE CEO Jeff Immelt several times over the course of the summer.

In 2006 Yankees ownership paid over $ 300,000 to a lobbying firm run by former Bronx Assemblyman Roberto Ramirez — the largest lobbying fee reported that year — as well as other influential lawmakers including former state senator Joseph Bruno, in an apparent effort to secure funding for the stadium.

Donors collectively invested nearly $ 5 million in nonprofit education efforts, c (4) lobbying, and political giving over several years.

Both NEA and AFT insert themselves into state and local politics all over the country by throwing millions of dollars at candidates, initiatives and lobbying efforts that support their self - serving agenda whenever and wherever they can.

McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan explained to N.C. Policy Watch that Education Freedom Alliance was one of their clients and that on their behalf, he was behind lobbying efforts to create an «achievement school district» designed to allow charter school operators to take over the state's poorest performing schools.

Over the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bOver the first 120 days of the 2012 Legislative Session, corporate lobby groups spent over $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bover $ 2.2 million (and counting) in their effort to pass Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill.

But the bottom line, Michelle Rhee, Achievement First and ConnCAN elitists who will have spent upwards of $ 2 million on their lobby effort to sweep in and take over Connecticut's education system, with the help of Governor Malloy, have failed.

While Malloy and the Democratic controlled General Assembly are instituting unprecedented cuts to public schools, thanks to the «reformers» lobbying effort, more than $ 110 million in public dollars will be handed over to charter schools this year alone.

Over the past year and a half, Families for Excellent Schools — using a variety of aliases — has spent nearly $ 1.5 million in a record - breaking effort to lobby and persuade Connecticut legislators to support Governor Dannel Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory «education reform» initiatives.

In addition, Excel Bridgeport actively lobbied on behalf of Governor Malloy's «education reform» bill and the organization has also spent significant resources in support for Mayor Bill Finch's efforts to change Bridgeport's Charter, by eliminating the elected board of education and replacing it was an appointed board that would allow stronger mayoral control over the education budget and school issues.

A spirited lobbying effort in Washington over the summer, spearheaded by a New York gallery and a group of committed artists, has apparently succeeded in staving off a total ban on the use of cadmium paints in the United States.

They're a central feature of Obama's efforts to address climate change, but they are also set to become the subject of a massive lobbying war between industry and environmental groups as the administration deliberates over the final rule — a process that could take up much of the rest of the president's tenure in office.

In 2009 Arch Coal spent over $ 2.32 million on lobbying efforts.

Union Pacific has given $ 700,000 to the U.S. Chamber since 2004, as reported in the company's 2007, 2008, and 2009 proxy statements, and has spent over $ 3 million on lobbying activities in 2009, including efforts to oppose the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Because, once you speculate about energy companies» clandestine lobbying effort and their influence over the political agenda in the face of a looming catastrophe — as King has — it's difficult to claim that another mode of producing energy offers a panacea.

The neoliberal agenda is putting profit before people, big fossil fuel businesses are having overbearing power over politicians, pushing private greed over public interest, and undermining the fundamental principles of democracy with their aggressive lobbying efforts.

Richard says among other things: «While having congressional support is obviously useful, I reminded the attendees that the original Ocean Energy Council, over 20 years ago, concentrated all of its efforts on lobbying, succeeded in having 2 major OTEC bills signed into law, only to... Continue reading →

In sum, no matter how intensive or extensive any lobbying efforts for increased public funding for legal aid may be over any period of time, they will never lead to an allocation of funding at a level sufficient to close the justice gap in the US.

So in this topsy - turvy world, who knows, but you would think that with the amount of business that has gone over to Cuba since President Obama's executive orders and the additional amount of capital that's been invested going forward, you would think that it would be very difficult for whoever it is to be able to just undo all that without a concerted effort from the business lobby to prevent that from happening or at least slow that down.

This case stakes the outer boundary of how far courts can go to rewrite legislation, and where lobbying effort has to take over;

But with prominent fights flaring over Russian election interference, data breaches and other scandals, the biggest tech companies — no longer wishing to publicly oppose a bill fighting sex trafficking — retreated from their lobbying effort in recent weeks.

Huawei and ZTE are rethinking their lobbying efforts in the West, having significantly reduced their direct investments in such activities over the course of 2017, Reuters reported Monday, citing a number of their financial disclosures.