Sentences with phrase «new lobbying group»

The industry has formed a new lobbying group, and it is planning a national campaign that includes television advertising.

It's so expensive, says a new lobbying group, that it threatens the quality of Kansas roads, health care and other government functions.

I see that Lord Lawson's new lobby group, launched last week with harsh criticism of CRU, has now owned up to use an inaccurate version of CRU's data on its website: http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2009/12/climate-sceptics-get-it-wrong-1.html I wonder if they will hold a public inquiry into the data on its website?

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers (7/25/2008) Under attack by politicians, aid groups, and environmentalists for driving up food prices and fueling destruction of ecologically sensitive habitats, some of the world's largest agroindustrial firms have formed a lobby group to influence consumers and lawmakers to support continued subsidies for biofuel production, reports Reuters.

Legal circles in Quebec are buzzing these days over the imminent birth of a new lobby group for lawyers in la belle province.

Not exact matches

President - elect Donald Trump stands with SoftBank Group Corp. founder and Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son in the lobby of Trump Tower on Dec. 6, 2016 in New York.

The New York — based Thompson hotel group has transformed a once staid and average Sheraton into one of the capital's hippest hotels, packing the lobby with the requisite design books and a gallery's worth of original art.

According to a recent article in the New York Times, the coalition, called the Center for Humane Technology, has brought together an impressive group of social media pioneers, leaders in tech, F500 partners, and media in an effort to educate and lobby against what they call «tech - addiction» among youth.

Some commenters on Reddit have suggested the newest comments stem from a 2010 press release from a conservative lobbying group, but the wording there is different enough to make any link tenuous.

There's nothing new about a Democratic presidential nominee seeking to close the loophole (Barack Obama campaigned on this in both 2008 and 2012), but Trump's endorsement puts industry lobbying groups in an unfamiliar position of having to persuade both parties to maintain the status quo.

The new venture probably won't affect the polarized healthcare debate in Washington, but could alter the dynamics of the issue down the line if the companies come up with some innovative ideas, said Neil Trautwein, a vice president at the National Retail Federation trade group who lobbies Congress on healthcare issues.

The lobbying group will file an appeal to keep the rule, which was tossed out by a New Orleans court last month.

In 2014, The New York Times reported on Pruitt's extensive industry ties — which included oil and gas companies, utilities and lobby groups.

Last week, the New York Times reported that a group of venture capitalists has lobbied the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create a «safe harbor» for some currencies, which would presumably include ether.

Investment in new wind farms in Europe last year fell 19 % on the year to Eur22.3 billion ($ 27.5 billion), according to an annual report by wind lobby group WindEurope.

NEW YORK / WASHINGTON Wall Street lobby groups urged U.S. policy makers and regulators to revamp rules to encourage more initial public offerings and to reduce the regulatory cost of staying public, in a white paper issued on Thursday.

The lobbying efforts of this group contributed to the liberalization of abortion laws in the State of New York before Roe v. Wade, and no doubt had an indirect effect on that decision itself.

A new report finds that religious groups engaged in lobbying or advocacy around Washington employ at least 1,000 people.

(CNN)- Lobbying and advocacy by religious groups in Washington have exploded in recent decades, increasing fivefold since 1970 to become a nearly $ 400 million industry, a new Pew report finds.

DAIRY industry lobby groups are assessing if the move for processors to include incentives in opening milk price announcements is in contravention of the new voluntary code of conduct.

One of the panelists at the SNA's policy session was Craig Burkhardt, a lawyer with the group's new lobbying firm, Barnes and Thornburg (whose clients include the National Rifle Association).

JCOPE asked a court to compel the Campaign for One New York, a political nonprofit connected to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, to hand over documents related to its lobbying and fund - raising activities after the group's lawyer declared last week that he would not comply with the panel's subpoena.

The group is different from the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying entity formed in 2011 that backed Cuomo's agenda at the time.

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

The group takes lobbying groups from a range of the political to spectrum to task, including the Cuomo - friendly Committee to Save New York, the Alliance Quality Education and American Beverage Association, for failing to disclose who is behind their advertising and advocacy.

The report released on Monday by lobbying and ethics regulators found the top lobbying entities this year so far have been the New York State Nurses Association, which spent $ 2.3 million — nearly double than what the group spent in the first six months of last year.

Western New York's largest business group, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, once again plans to focus its lobbying efforts on core issues familiar to its members: the high cost of doing business in the state, the need for more trained workers and the importance of encouraging investment in the region.

However, this resulted in a rash of high - profile court cases that continue today, and it spawned new media - savvy lobby groups intent on pushing back against further change.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the Firemen's Association of the State of New York, other firefighters groups and state Sens. David Carlucci and Joseph Griffo discuss presumptive cancer coverage and other issues ahead of their lobby day, Empire State Plaza meeting room 7, Albany.

Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort was hit with new charges, including an allegation he secretly recruited and funded a group of former European politicians to lobby in the United States on behalf of Ukraine.

At 11 a.m., groups committed to improving the health of New Yorkers call on the state Legislature to reject the proposed consolidation of public health funding, and the 20 percent cut in funding, state Capitol, third floor, outside state Senate lobby, Albany.

It's not a surprise that education entities spent the most money on lobbying than any other group in 2014, just as controversy over the new Common core standards and the related standardized tests reached a peak.

Maffei joined a group of New York House members who said they were protecting a home - state industry by lobbying to soften proposed regulations on derivatives trading by big banks.

To complicate matters, Loeb also has donated to some left - leaning advocacy groups including the Center for Reproductive Rights, which fights for a woman's right to choose abortion, and the Human Rights Campaign, a group that lobbied to get marriage equality enacted in New York in 2011.

Sometime after midnight on the last day of the legislative session — with zero public hearings, public review or consultation — Governor Cuomo rammed through a bill that includes very vague and very broad new reporting requirements for charitable groups which engage in lobbying or coordination with related charitable groups.

ESPA did max out its donations to McDonald after he, along with Sens. Stephen Saland, Mark Grisanti and James Alesi voted in the favor of the measure following a period of intense lobbying from a pro-gay marriage umbrella group, New Yorkers United For Marriage, and from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Finding himself all but friendless in the state capital, Mr. de Blasio asked the New York State Association for Affordable Housing — an industry group of builders specializing in subsidized apartments — to lobby Albany to bring back the expired exemption.

Blair Horner of New York Public Interest Research Group says that means the group falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to regiGroup says that means the group falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to regigroup falls outside of lobbying and therefore, doesn't have to register.

In addition, although the investigation of independent expenditure groups was part of the commission's mandate, the governor's staff allegedly told commissioners not to mention a pro-Cuomo organization, the Committee to Save New York — which spent more than $ 16 million on lobbying and elections without fully disclosing the source of its contributions — in their final report.

Others, like Lerner with Common Cause, says the lobbying groups should have to reveal donors going back at least ten months, to when the new law was signed by Cuomo, on August 15, 2011.

A lobbying group closely allied with the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo has been in the news a lot in the past couple of days, in articles raising questions about multi-million dollar donations to the group known as the Committee to Save New York, and policies later advocated by the governor.

He is a former president of the Business Council of New York State, a lobbying group.

Environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, The Alliance for a Greater New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance have also fought against the bill but they too lobby elected officials on a variety of issues.

In 2013, the New York Public Interest Research Group complained to the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics that the party's efforts amounted to lobbying — the ads didn't urge people to vote for someone, but rather to support a pending policy action — and should be disclosed as such.

The lobby group's budget analysis singled out the minimum wage proposal backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic lawmakers and wage and labor advocates as the «most significant new business cost» in the spending plan.

The Tax Foundation once again ranked New York among the states with the worst tax climate in the nation — something that doesn't surprise the business groups that lobby for changes in Albany.

The Stonewall Democrats of WNY and another group, Outspoken for Equality, issued a joined statement thanking the singer for, as Stonewall President Bryan Ball put it, using «her power and influence to encourage Western New Yorkers to lobby our new Sen. Mark Gristanti on why it is crucial he support civil marriage equality in New York.&raqNew Yorkers to lobby our new Sen. Mark Gristanti on why it is crucial he support civil marriage equality in New York.&raqnew Sen. Mark Gristanti on why it is crucial he support civil marriage equality in New York.&raqNew York.»

In fact, board members of the Friends of the High Line group and the Real Estate Board of New York have donated a combined $ 370,000 to her campaign and Jamestown has spent more than $ 670,000 lobbying to her and other officials.

(The plan has the backing of the Real Estate Board of New York, the developers» powerful lobbying group.)

The Cuomo administration aggressively interfered when the Commission started asking questions of the Real Estate Board of New York, the powerful trade group that has donated generously to Governor Cuomo, and forbade members from investigating the Committee to Save New York, a lobbying group created to support Cuomo,» Teachout said in a statement.