Sentences with phrase «members fuel debates»

Plus, inactive members fuel debates over whether local boards are the best way to run public schools.

Not exact matches

After months of debate fueled by environmental concerns over a proposed mega gas station at the northeast corner of Butterfield Road and Route 53 near Glen Ellyn, DuPage County board members Tuesday soundly defeated the proposal in a 14 to 4 vote.

Everything's Cool (Unrated) Cautionary documentary exposes the efforts of the fossil fuel industry lobby and conservative think tanks to manufacture an artificial debate about global warming in the face of irrefutable proof of the phenomenon provided by responsible members of the scientific community.

She conjured up the roiling, riotous art camp that was East 10th Street in the 1950s, her home before this one; the leaky, cold - water lofts that she, Mr. Resnick, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and other members of the New York School colonized; the endless coffee fueling the endless, passionate debates; the feuds and factions; and the constant, hilarious presence of the F.B.I., trawling for the operators of the Mafia gambling dens the artists unwittingly shared space with.

As you might expect in a debate about whether or not the U.S. should make a risky move to perpetuate the use of fossil fuels, some committee members took the opportunity to voice doubt that the constant burning of that energy source was behind the rising temperatures, melting ice sheets, and abnormal weather events most scientists associate with climate change.