Sentences with phrase «lobbying power on»

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With a solar tile roll out slated for the next few months, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk will no doubt be watching to see the impact the lobbying efforts and traditional power money have on actual laws.

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.

Especially given the recent FDA & BPA shenanigans and the power of the formula lobbying influence on the US government, including the DHHS, the FDA, etc., it is questionable as to whether going through such channels will be effective.

A «country that works for everyone», is a country where the government does not allow private interests to come before the public interest, where access to power is democratic and not something enjoyed only by a privileged few through expensive lobbying, where in fact people can work hard and get on in life whatever the circumstances of their birth.

Also, given the explosion of power — and consequently lobbying industry interest — in Asia, there is a brief concluding chapter on the do's and don'ts in a few of the major countries in the region.

Collaborative urban networks are an important vehicle of formulating goals and implementing power, and lobbying and exercising political influence on the nation state.

He also lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, which paid Percoco's wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, for curriculum development work.

The Stonewall Democrats of WNY and another group, Outspoken for Equality, issued a joined statement thanking the singer for, as Stonewall President Bryan Ball put it, using «her power and influence to encourage Western New Yorkers to lobby our new Sen. Mark Gristanti on why it is crucial he support civil marriage equality in New York.»

Gibson has been slamming Murphy for voting «yes» on the health care reform bill — a vote that came only after considerable lobbying by the Democratic powers - that - be, including the president, who had the freshman congressman over for a little Oval Office chat.

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.

A report being released Friday by the Public Accountability Initiative examines the money spent on the consulting and lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs by Competitive Power Ventures as the trial of a former close aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo loomed.

As a converse, it doesn't matter WHAT you do, as soon as you grant more power / more budgets to the government, it will ALWAYS be more cost effective for someone to spend X amount of money on lobbying to obtain a lot more than X in government preferential treatment.

On the balance, even with the Muslim lobby's Arabic scrawl on Nigeria's currency and their gamely push to brand their faith as the religion of power of independent Nigeria, British colonization has ensured much of the country's so - called «secularity» had Euro - Christian rootOn the balance, even with the Muslim lobby's Arabic scrawl on Nigeria's currency and their gamely push to brand their faith as the religion of power of independent Nigeria, British colonization has ensured much of the country's so - called «secularity» had Euro - Christian rooton Nigeria's currency and their gamely push to brand their faith as the religion of power of independent Nigeria, British colonization has ensured much of the country's so - called «secularity» had Euro - Christian roots.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the recently - passed New York State budget is a mixture of «simple pros and cons» and vowed that he will lobby Albany on his proposal to impose a new tax on sales of properties worth $ 2 million and to see his administration's power over the city's school system extended at least another year.

The number of lobbying clients represented by Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates skyrocketed from nine during the 2013 - 2014 legislative session to 27 in 2015 - 2016 sessions — making Heastie's chum an emerging Albany power broker, records filed with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics show.

Actress Cynthia Nixon and New York Ranger Sean Avery were in Albany today bringing some star power to lobby senators on marriage equality there.

An attorney for Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., for instance, who lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company once seeking certain regulatory approvals in New York, has argued that

An attorney for Peter Galbraith Kelly, Jr., for instance, who lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures, an energy company once seeking certain regulatory approvals in New York, has argued that there are at least four schemes alleged by the government.

Green groups have lobbied Stefanik to help retain the funding for the program, and have fretted about the Trump administration's rollbacks on environmental policies, including pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Accord and Pruitt's decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plPower Plan, an Obama - era policy designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired power plpower plants.

But because the Trump White House doesn't appear to have a «strong view» on climate change, Korsnick said, NEI's federal lobbying is now focused on emphasizing baseload nuclear power to support the electric grid.

To the authors of a new study, the two power companies are more alike than their positions on global warming indicate, and they reflect a trend of corporate lobbying on climate change.

Keep in mind that due to the sugar industry's lobbying power, it is the only component on nutrition labels that does not have a «recommended daily allowance» associated with it (24).

On one level a gripping conspiracy thriller about the power of the nuclear energy lobby, on another one of the most heartbreaking explorations of loss ever filmed, this darkly beautiful 1985 miniseries remains one of the BBC's most perfect productionOn one level a gripping conspiracy thriller about the power of the nuclear energy lobby, on another one of the most heartbreaking explorations of loss ever filmed, this darkly beautiful 1985 miniseries remains one of the BBC's most perfect productionon another one of the most heartbreaking explorations of loss ever filmed, this darkly beautiful 1985 miniseries remains one of the BBC's most perfect productions.

There's a lot of money on the table, and money usually equals lobbying power.

Other decent bonuses on the DVD include a behind - the - scenes Still Gallery, Advertising Gallery, 4 postcard still / lobby card reproductions, and a short featurettes that briefly chronicles Tyrone Power's appearances in various swashbuckling actioners, with clips from a number of films extant on DVD, and a few likely on the horizon (like the CinemaScope epic King of the Kyber Rifles), plus comments from the son of director John Cromwell — actor James Cromwell (the benevolent father figure in Babe, and Jack Bauer's monster dad in Season 6 of Fox» TV series 24).

Industry trade associations are generally very powerful because they charge their members fees sufficiently large to permit the association to have real lobbying and other power on behalf of its members.

An electronic paper sign, for example, will require no cables, running on batteries for months on end or achieving self - sustainability through the use of solar power, all the while providing impeccable visibility even in the bright sun of the campus grounds or the fluorescent light of the lobby.

The excellent services and facilities include a lobby with waiting area, an onsite car park, a bell service, twenty four hour reception and telephone service, room service, operator service, on call doctor, car rental, bicycle rental, butler service, back - up generator in the rare event of a power cut, BBQ facilities, day spa, airport round trip complimentary transfer, private chef, IDD phone, laundry and dry cleaning service, and much more at Mahagiri Villas Sanur.

All 4 car classes and power ups that have been unlocked in career are available to the players in multiplayer races, meaning its entirely possible for a new player who only has class 1 vehicles to be thrown into a lobby against other players all rocking the best powerups on vehicles from class 4.

There's a lot of money on the table, and money usually equals lobbying power.

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Dominated by large painted areas of bright color on the wall and ceiling (arranged so that the work could incorporate a section of a previous mural by Judy Ledgerwood, leaving it untouched to accentuate its ornamental attraction) and vivid carpet on the floor, it also includes an eclectic selection of household and street lamps, tree branches, yarn, and power cords, along with the furniture provided for the lobby's small café.

And given the lobbying power of energy - extracting industries, along with those reliant on them (automakers, electric utilities), can embedded advantages, ranging from cheap rail rates for coal to direct tax breaks for oil drillers, be diminished?

While ALEC purports to spend zero dollars on lobbying, Exxon has deliberately used ALEC for the past two decades to advance its legislative goals concerning cap - and - trade policies, fracking, the Keystone Pipeline and the Obama Administration's Clean Power Plan.

«If you were too comprehensively regulate greenhouse gases under the existing Clean Air Act, that would impose a substantial cost and insufficient flexibility for the regulated community,» said Scott Segal, director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which lobbies on behalf of power companies like Southern Co. and Duke Energy Corp..

Florida Power & Light, like most other monopoly electric utilities, spends this large sum on the usual suspects: lobbying and public relations.

The lobbying tour, organized by Corporate Europe Observatory, took place on December 3rd 2015, with the goal of bringing the buildings of the Parisian business district La Dèfense to life: they are seats of power, where decisions are influenced, where lobbyists work and wield power.

And then you have to put up with being a muscular, efficient organization with excellent transparency for audit purposes, qualified to support multidecade multinational projects on merit rather than political lobbying power or a reputation for credibility earned by individual heroics.

The group just hired Paul Bailey, a former operative for the oil and electric power industries, as its top lobbyist and will soon fill three more upper - level positions, bolstering a fleet of fixers who spent more money than anyone else — nearly $ 10 million last year — lobbying on climate change - related legislation, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Anthony Kavanagh has years of experience in lobbying numerous federal agencies on behalf of American Electric Power, specializing in preventing pollution regulation.

Though McKibben and Browner both support climate action, they differ on means, as McKibben has expressed skepticism about nuclear power's cost while Browner serves on the Leadership Council of industry lobbying group Nuclear Matters.

The Last Friday, Environmental Progress (EP) reported that two top former Cuomo aides under federal prosecution for influence - peddling had lobbied on behalf of Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), a natural gas company, to kill Indian Point.

... If you believe that solving the climate change problem «is fundamentally a technological challenge,» then we are in this mess not because of the power of the fossil fuel lobby, not because of the influence of the campaign of denial, not because of money politics, not because persuading consumers to accept a price on carbon seems too hard, and not because getting international cooperation has been fraught.

Greenpeace EU energy policy adviser Tara Connolly said: «The Commission seems intent on handing the keys of the energy transition to the same power companies that have lobbied against renewables for decades.

She also led the largest youth gathering on global warming in U.S. history — POWER SHIFT 2009, a conference of more than 12,000 youth representing all 50 states which culminated in the single largest lobby day on Capitol Hill focused on global warming.

It is worth noting that power exerted by an elite few was responsible for hemp's prohibition, whether this is attributed primarily to the circumstantial evidence implying industry lobbying on behalf of petrochemicals versus the Chemurgy movement, or to the clear proof of hemp falling victim to anti-drug hysteria.

Depending on how the interplay of cap and trade and wind power additions are synchronized and who provides the funding, the lobbying battles may be intense.

Meanwhile, the renewable energy lobby, big on promises but short on delivering them, has barely produced enough capacity to replace two coal - fired power stations.

The rules on new power plants will soon face a 60 - day public comment period, likely to be followed by intensive industry and environmental lobbying and possible court challenges.

On the other side of the debate is the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the industry's lobbying arm, supports Perry's plan to compensate baseload power.