Sentences with phrase «more federal protections»

Right now, debit cards come with more federal protections from liability and fraud, but that's set to change in April 2018, when prepaid cards will get new protections (see below).

Not exact matches

A summary of the forthcoming orders, seen by Reuters, say past administrations «overused» the Antiquities Act, putting more federal areas under protection than necessary.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

We've already made modest progress: in February, Canada and China signed a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, which the federal government claims will make doing business in China safer and more predictable for Canadians.

«Unfortunately, we're more likely to see an erosion of consumer protection at the federal level over the next several years,» Dodd said.

However, borrowers do have a few more protections in place in case of default on a federal student loan:

Federal regulation prohibits you from making more than a total of 6 transfers each month to other accounts from a savings or money market account (including transfers to another account for overdraft protection) or to third parties each month by check, through point - of - sale purchase transactions with a banking card, by preauthorized or automatic agreements, telephone, or online.

And while federal loans come with their own set of challenges and risks, all 1.37 million private loan borrowers are often subject to fewer protections and less flexible repayment plans than those offered under federal loan agreements.Less accommodating repayment options and more rigid terms can quickly lead to private student loan defaults, which is a dangerous financial place to be.

For example, federal student loans typically offer more borrower protections and flexible repayment options compared to private loans, said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of PrivateStudentLoans.guru.

Federal regulations prohibit you from making more than a total of six transfers each month to other accounts from a savings or money market account (including transfers to another account for overdraft protection) or to third parties each month by check, through point - of - sales purchase transactions with a banking card, by preauthorized or automatic agreements, by telephone or online.

Unlike private student loans, federal direct student loans don't require credit history or a co-signer, and they have more repayment options and protections to prevent default.

-- State Attorney General Xavier Becerra on the federal government report filed Monday detailing numbers of Dreamers who have been able to renew their status — and are guaranteed two more years of DACA protection: «As a result of the nationwide injunction we secured, at least 30,000 Dreamers who have renewed their DACA status — our colleagues, our classmates, our teachers — can go home to their loved ones at night and keep helping build a better America.

Is the Hospital (an organization)'s right to enforce what it believes to be right more valid than an individual citizen's right to freedom of religion and receipt of protections given by Federal law?

More specifically, the areas of beverage alcohol in which the firm practices include federal, state and local alcoholic beverage retail, wholesale and supplier licensing, multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance, international and domestic agreements, trademark registration and protection, federal label approval and state brand registration, industry franchise laws, trade practices, and Customs matters related to the alcoholic beverage industry.

The ServSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Exam, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)- Conference for Food Protection (CFP) and is recognized by more federal, state and local jurisdictions than any other food safety certification, including Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa.

And it's true that marriage matters today in the U.S., because it grants those who tie the know more than 1,100 perks and protections — and that's just at the federal level.

It's rigorously tested for safety (it has two times the... MORE federal standard for side - impact protection) and has energy - absorbing padding to absorb the impact in case of an accident.

In the US, there are more than 1,100 laws benefiting married couples, and that's just at the federal level; many states offer perks and protections as well.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for stepped - up efforts to control nutrient pollution responsible for algae blooms in Lake Erie, but isn't proposing more federal regulations to accomplish the task.

Other GOP lawmakers have been more vocal in defending last year's federal Stream Protection Rule as one necessary to beat back what they perceive as overreaching regulatory actions, specifically when it comes to protecting the coal industry.

And compared to the federal constitution, New York's document provides more protections against many forms of government intrusion and more rights.

Lawyers representing 11 artists argued in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Thursday that an effort by the Bloomberg administration to slash the number of artists in parks by more than half violated the First Amendment's free - speech protections.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

However, the United States has no federal law outlawing discrimination nationwide other than from federal executive orders which have a more limited scope than from protections through federal legislation.

State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on Monday said the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to do more to ensure that PCBs have been thoroughly removed from the Hudson River, reopening a decades - long debate about the area's toxic legacy.

«This community has come a long way,» Crowley said of Woodside, and he called for the development of more «empathy» for transgender people as well as more civil rights protections «at the state and federal level.»

GE has paid more than $ 2 billion to clean the Hudson under a deal with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, but a significant amount of the carcinogenic chemical remains in the river.

In the State of New York, the Human Rights Law offers substantially more protection than federal antidiscrimination laws, because gender dysphoria is a recognized medical condition that falls within the broad definition of disability found in the state law, as New York courts have recognized.

The National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program recently awarded two federal grants to two entities to learn more about sites in Western New York.

In 2008, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's Environmental Commissioner and former Assemblyman Pete Grannis, along with Spitzer's top environmental advisor, Judith Enck (who now is with the federal Environmental Protection Agency), wanted more time to study the potential effects of fracking.

The move toward more natural coastline protection comes as federal agencies, state governments, and local and business leaders focus increasingly on the concept of resilience as they plan for how communities will adapt to climate change.

But, 3 days away from the historic event, there's no indication that the federal government is planning much more than putting a banner ad on the Environmental Protection Agency Web site.

Two years later a coalition of green groups led by NRDC and including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society upped the ante, asking the federal courts to also restrict testing of more intense, harmful and far ranging mid-frequency types of sonar off Southern California's coastline.

According to Eckhardt Viehl of Germany's Radiation Protection Authority, which will run the dump for the federal environment ministry, more than # 230 million has been spent on the project so far.

Regulators say redundant layers of protection usually prevent waste from getting that far, but EPA data shows that in the three years analyzed by ProPublica, more than 7,500 well test failures involved what federal water protection regulations describe as «fluid migration» and «significant leaks.»

Nowhere is the gap between climate science and federal climate policy more obvious than at the Environmental Protection Agency.

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We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

However, in order to make that PII more accessible than in the past, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act or FERPA was redefined by the Obama administration, removing longstanding federal protections for children.

Force students with disabilities to give up rights and protections guaranteed to public school students under federal law, and much more.

To participate in many voucher programs, parents must sign away some or all of their protections and rights under federal law.24 What's more, some states are not transparent about this stipulation.

The No FEAR Act, with an effective date of October 1, 2003, requires that Federal agencies be more accountable for violations of anti-discrimination and whistleblower protection laws.

We follow the laws of the state within which this dealership is domiciled when that law provided you more protection than federal law.

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule amending Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Number 213 to establish frontal crash protection requirements for child restraint systems for children weighing more than 65 pounds.

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Max out federal student loans before using private ones, because federal loans have more borrower protections and don't require a co-signer.

Due to the federal insurance protection offered by the FHA, you do not have to pay more than the value of the home when it is sold, even if your loan balance surpasses your home's value.

Federal loans don't require a credit history or a co-signer, and they offer more generous protections for borrowers than private student loans do, such as income - driven repayment and loan forgiveness.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report this week showing that the vast majority (over 90 %) of federal student loan borrowers who default on one or more student loans will likely end up back in default within two years.