The free
market lobbying group is «just literally lying» about climate change.
The Heartland Institute - essentially a free -
market lobby group - emphasises «the climate is always changing».
Not exact matches
the real estate industry's largest
lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing
market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.
When one of the real estate industry's largest
lobby groups, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report last month analyzing the state of the country's housing
market, it found, to absolutely no one's surprise, zero evidence of a bubble that would warrant political intervention.
But the little - known agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been thrust into the spotlight as trade
groups mount an unusually intense
lobbying effort, seeking to scale back regulations that they say are hampering an industry that could provide a
market - based solution to the affordable housing crisis.
Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada's largest housing
market, and among the most inflated in the world, plunged 32 % in April, compared to a year ago, to 7,792 homes, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), a real estate
lobbying group.
At the same time, powerful
lobby groups have been working to curtail government legislation regulating formula
marketing and promotion, in the Philippines and across the world.
The fight over membership of the single
market is set to become the next big battleground following the Brexit vote, with opposing
groups of Tory MPs frantically
lobbying Theresa May either for a «hard Brexit» option of leaving or a «soft Brexit» option of staying in.
The lag «has more to do with the fact that the energy landscape has changed so substantially and that the
market is working to catch up,» said Kathryn Clay, executive director of the Drive Natural Gas Alliance, a
group representing the natural gas industry that
lobbied hard for credits under the new fuel economy rule.
The decades - old provision of the state's open records law is now troubling some Democratic lawmakers after voucher school
lobbying group School Choice Wisconsin sought student information from about 30 Wisconsin school districts for
marketing purposes.
A
lobby group for the securities industry, the Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association, is trying to kill the rule, which was proposed by the Labor Department.
As part of HSI's high profile campaign to end the trade, which combines political
lobbying, public campaigning, and direct rescue of hundreds of dogs each year from slaughter trucks and
markets, HSI rescued this
group just one day away from being killed.
In order to maintain their lock on the
market and convince Americans to not buy dogs from pet stores or purebred dog breeders, these same rescue
groups and shelters are
lobbying legislatures and city councils all across this nation to outlaw dog breeding and ban pet stores from selling pets.
Offering beautiful rooms, communal
lobby space, Magic Rat Live Music, the beautiful Sunset Lounge and Sage Restaurant
Group's Emporium Kitchen & Wine
Market.
Known for its exceptional location just steps from Pike Place
Market and stunning views of Elliott Bay and the Olympic Mountains, the Seattle Marriott Waterfront just raised its
group appeal by refreshing its
lobby and meeting spaces with new furnishings, artwork and technical capabilities.
I'm sure we'll hear even more about you in the presidential debates, through both Obama's speechifying and the ACCCE
lobbying group's
marketing cyclone.
In the UK too, the primary sources of climate change denial have been right - wing «free
market»
lobby groups, particularly the Centre for Policy Studies, and politicians politicians, such as Nigel Lawson.
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), echoing trade
groups that
lobby for other fuel sources including coal and gas, has said that a key factor for several premature retirements is the failure of RTO
markets to value attributes of nuclear power.
Mr. McKitrick says he was paid $ 1,000 by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free -
market research and
lobbying group, and had his travel costs picked up by another
lobby group.
Neil Record, a City currency manager and trustee of the free
market Institute of Economic Affairs, was exposed by DeSmog UK last September as a key backer of Nigel Lawson's climate denial
lobby group, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
The pharmaceutical and healthcare industries use front
groups disguised as «patients rights» advocates to
market their products and to
lobby against government policies that might affect their profits.
Lawrence Solomon, National Post columnist and head of the «free -
market environmentalist»
lobby group Energy Probe, has received less of my attention (although his weirdly paranoid «analysis» of Google's supposed censorship of «climategate» was certainly a classic).
A combination of weak / speculative science, issuing the press release prior to peer review or at least public availability of the paper, a direct challenge to establishment assessment reports, policy advocacy, and use of a professional publicity /
marketing /
lobbying group to handle the publicity seems to have contributed to the backfire.
«At the start of the book's passage on Hot air and global warming, she notes that there is «a vast amount of highly technical material on these matters» but points out that «thankfully, the issues have been clearly analysed and debated by scholars in the United States» before providing a long list of publications by «free
market»
lobby groups, such as the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation.
The Daily Express, a UK mass -
market tabloid newspaper that has lately turned into a propaganda organ of the denialist
lobby groups, recently made a meal of this in a front page article.
«We've seen a very strong shift in the last year in the dollar — it has literally pushed whole countries out of the marketplace,» said Kevin Maloney, founder and principal of Property
Markets Group, which is developing Echo Brickell, a 57 - story luxury tower that will have a shark tank in the
lobby.