Sentences with phrase «nonprofit watchdog group»

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

«All of this makes clear that the Supreme Court was wrong in Citizens United when it unleashed big money in our elections with the promise it would be independent of candidates and office holders,» said Paul Ryan, vice president for policy and litigation at the nonprofit watchdog group Common Cause.

And they joined forces on a nonprofit watchdog group that is putting the spotlight on how public money is spent in the Mercers» home state of New York.

«ESCOs have flourished in the shadows in New York, relying on consumers being unaware of the business practices that harm them,» said Richard Berkley, executive director of the Public Utility Law Project of New York, a nonprofit watchdog group based in Albany.

Just four years ago, the company had to answer to a round of laboratory testing by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a nonprofit watchdog group.

Last month, a nonprofit watchdog group revealed that prominent geologist Charles «Chip» Groat, the lead author of a report on fracking conducted by the University of Texas (UT), Austin, did not disclose financial ties to an energy company that conducts fracking.

The nonprofit watchdog group Public Citizen circulated OHRP's letter to reporters, drawing widespread media attention.

That was not the first time Pruitt has exercised questionable judgment around a property transaction, according to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit watchdog group.