Sentences with phrase «many years of inaction»

Every year of inaction serves to broaden and deepen those risks.

After years of inaction by the old Progressive Conservative government, it is refreshing to have a government that believes in climate change and has actually presented a policy to address it.

The Cornucopia Institute says that after years of inaction by the USDA on the issue, it obtained aerial photographs in nine states of industrial - scale confinement facilities that fly in the face of the organic standards developed to protect the American people from factory produced animal products.

Trustee Stephen Daday, chairman of the village «s legal committee, said that although the agreement had ambiguities, approving it would spur work after years of inaction.

After years of inaction, plans in Arlington Heights for developing a 56 - acre dirt landfill off Nichols Road into a recreation site appear to be moving forward.

Cuomo said the focus on Western New York has been done to «make up for years of abandonment and years of inaction» by the state.

Peter A. Baynes, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Mayors said, «Governor Cuomo's creation of a team to examine how oppressive mandates are crippling local governments, including cities and villages, is a welcome relief from years of inaction.

And New Yorkers have been begging for reform in the wake of scandal after scandal, many over the last four years of inaction.

The City Council is poised to criminalize «revenge porn» locally following years of inaction by state lawmakers — who have let a similar bill languish in Albany since 2014.

In the wake of years of inaction by the elected officials in the region and continuing unemployment and disinvestment in Poughkeepsie, a growing movement has been building in the Hudson Valley and across the state in support of Fair Elections so that New Yorkers can have a democractic system that elects officials that will be responsive to the needs of all communities.

After years of inaction, local and state officials are acting to stem the flow of sewage overflows into the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek.

With every year of inaction the risks posed by climate change grow, according to a new report requested by Congress.

The Senate, true to form, sustained its 18th year of inaction on global warming since ratifying the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

Cinzia Caggiano, who has campaigned for safer schools since her experiencing tragedy in 2008, urged Renzi to follow through with his plan after what she described as years of inaction by successive governments.

After years of inaction and prompted by a 2011 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bird for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the BLM initiated sage grouse protection planning.

This will finally shine a spotlight on the toll of air pollution on health and life, after years of inaction, which have seen the government sued in the High Court over its failure to come up with a plan to radically improve the quality of the air we and our children breathe.

After more than a year of inaction, Boston educational and political leaders, led by Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, are moving toward developing a new student - assignment plan to replace the controversial system imposed by a federal - court order in the 1970's.

A standoff might just give us four years of inaction.

The Obama Administration has already signaled a strong willingness to regain U.S. leadership on the global stage in the treaty talks, reversing years of inaction.

As we meet here today, the good news is that after too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us.

Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal he's really promoting is more offshore drilling — a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan, and one that will not make a real dent in current gas prices or meet the long - term challenge of energy independence.

The Executive Secretariat of the UNFCCC and the developed countries seem to have been under the delusion that 3 minutes of silence amongst 20 years of inaction is enough.

as mt pointed out this is definitely not good enough news to outweigh the six more years of inaction since AR4.

This is sorta good news, kinda, but it's definitely not good enough news to outweigh the six more years of inaction since AR4.

According to the climate scientists a few more years of inaction will take us irrevocably past one or more of the catastrophic tipping points I have mentioned.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

In their posts, the four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution.

There is literally no point in countries signing up to this sham of a deal, which will lock the planet in to many more years of inaction.»

If incumbent Tea Party - aligned Rick Scott is reelected governor, it is expected to mean four more years of inaction on global warming.

Even this far out it seems certain the House will go GOP again in 2016, so having a climate - change - denying president will mean at least four more years of inaction bolstered by the smoke and mirrors of the noise machine.

Many environmental groups have applauded the scope of the EPA's efforts in the past year, saying they were necessary to overcome what they characterized as years of inaction under President George W. Bush.

21 years of inaction have passed.

Do we have the political will to act decisively — after 20 years of inaction and 8 years of denial?

For the rest of us, prepare for a couple intensely aggravating years of inaction on the biggest problem currently facing mankind.

If we don't have a decision under the COP and continue these issues under the Subsidiary Bodies of the Convention (as proposed by developing countries) they will be forgotten and followed with very slow implementation, these issues need the status to be prioritized, otherwise we will be locked in to 8 more years of inaction.

This came after 14 years of inaction by NHTSA, which had succumbed to pressure from the auto making industry and had failed to adopt a rollover resistance standard.

Not exact matches

Congress's inaction on guns over the past few years is not due to the unpopularity of gun control measures.

«After years of neglect, it's time for a restart — to choose safety over inaction, and to provide support in communities so that women and children across B.C. are safer,» said Jodie Wickens, New Democrat MLA for Coquitlam - Burke Mountain.

Sixty years later it was the inaction of a king that destroyed them.

So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.

The conclusion of the Court is that plaintiff's predecessor originally acquired a valid trade - mark in the word «Tabasco» as applied to pepper sauce, and that, by no action or inaction during the subsequent years, has plaintiff lost the resultant right to its exclusive use.

they should sack him at end of season for his failure to understand how his own actions (and inactions) have led to his failure to reach his own stated objectives consistently over the period of several years.

Inaction from the fans down the years has contributed to the mess we're now in, and I lay the blame solely at the feet of the AKBs!

«Given the city's inaction and protracted 10 - year proposal, it is now time for the commission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on Correction said.

«After many years of frustration resulting from the inaction and lack of a sense of urgency on the part of city agencies on the sidewalk issue, we turned to the State to ask for help, and to their credit they responded in a big way,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

«Their inaction is beyond shameful, coming on the heels of the arrest of two legislators, the jailing of two more and the resignation of a third — and that's just this year... The IDC's entire reason for being was to bring progressive legislation to the floor, but it never put up its own reform bill for a vote.»

Over a year of post-referendum government inaction and six months of muddle since the Article 50 notification has made our country look unwelcome to the rest of Europe and the world.

«After years of government inaction, it's refreshing to see a legislator with guts enough to tell the truth and demand a discussion about real reform.»

«After 13 years of Labour inaction, Nick Clegg announced a welcome and major series of progressive political reforms,» Lib Dem deputy leader Simon Hughes said.

It was complete inaction on the topic, after a year marked by the arrest of two sitting senators and one assemblyman, that led Cuomo to appoint the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in July.