Sentences with phrase «meaningful federal action»

In the meantime, in the absence of meaningful Federal action, sub-national climate policies could well become the core of national action.

In the absence of meaningful federal action, two groups of states have gone beyond RPS and enacted direct climate policies.

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Instead, she sees forcing a change in personnel — which, she notes, the Federal Reserve has the power to do to Wells Fargo should it so choose — as itself a meaningful policy action, one that would help reform the bank's culture and could deter bad actors throughout the industry.

A self - deprecating NCAA is a welcome switch from the previously smug organization that has only been moved to meaningful action in the recent past by federal court decisions (the ban on cost - of - attendance stipends became illegal once the NCAA got whipped in O'Bannon vs. NCAA) and terrible PR (Connecticut guard Shabazz Napier made the schools look silly with their food rules by speaking out during a tournament that makes $ 770 million a year for the NCAA in television revenue, hence the unlimited meals rule change).

Ricardo Chavarriaga at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne says that while the set - up is a good use of two technologies, linking them will not be meaningful until the human's intention corresponds to the rat's action.

Federal policy should prioritize strong requirements and targeted support that not only identifies chronically failing schools, but also empowers states and districts to take meaningful action to turn those schools around.

This doesn't mean that any mine is by definition a violation of treaty rights, but the federal and provincial governments are required to conduct meaningful consultation with first nations affected and the first nations have significant rights that can potentially be enforced by court action.

In addition to his opposition to meaningful action to reduce global warming pollution, Paul Ryan's budget called for «drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.»

Such bottom ‑ up linkage of state and regional cap ‑ and ‑ trade systems could be an important part or perhaps even the core of future of U.S. climate policy, at least until there is meaningful action at the Federal level.

Surfrider calls upon all elected officials in the U.S. to hold the Administration accountable for taking meaningful action on climate - both through federal policies and displaying international leadership.

He added that class actions in federal courts are «subject to serious abuse» that reward plaintiff lawyers with millions of dollars while offering nothing of «meaningful value to consumers.»