Sentences with phrase «on conservative think tanks»

Crockford has published «briefings» on conservative think tanks and has been described as a polar bear expert, but uses a «scientific uncertainty» and «public accountability of science» framework to criticize scientists» findings.

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It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

Published by the conservative think - tank Fraser Institute, the report's goal is to influence public policy and «set the record straight» on «wildly off - base» reports on financial costs of raising children.

«We get millions of reports every week of potential violations,» Monika Bickert, Facebook's vice president of global policy management, said during a discussion at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, in Washington on Tuesday.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

He goes on to say, «Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the media and social groups.

The liberal group People for the American Way's report on how conservative foundations have deployed vast sums to support think tanks, friendly media and other institutions that promote right - wing causes is titled «Buying a Movement.»

Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative Albany - area think tank, said teacher pension costs as now structured «are unsustainable in the long term, in addition to being paid for on the taxpayers» dime.»

«Based on 2014 spending numbers, New York is one of about a dozen states, almost all in the Northeast, whose caps would be lowered as a result of this provision — potentially losing billions in aid,» said Bill Hammond, a health care analyst at the conservative - leaning Empire Center, an Albany think tank.

E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank, said state government should be spending the money instead on the state's crumbling infrastructure, instead of on subsidized development.

In recent months, START - UP NY, a central part of Cuomo's massive economic development arsenal, has been vilified by some state legislators and conservative think tanks after it was reported the program created just 408 jobs across the state since 2014, leading the critics to question whether the $ 53 million spent on advertising and marketing was worth it.

I didn't say that James All I did was mention in passing that it was telling that conservative think tanks produced reports on reactionary clerics and movements while Labour ones did not.

Think tanks, pressure groups and Conservative activists are appalled by the government's U-turn on tobacco.

Mr Aitken is to lead a study for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think tank headed by Iain Duncan Smith which advises Conservative party leader David Cameron on social issues.

E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center, an Albany - based conservative think - tank, wrote an article on Monday supporting Cuomo's veto.

Looking at the most recent federal data, the fiscally conservative think tank found that New York spent 114 percent above the national average on instructional salaries and benefits in 2014 - 15.

Several former staffers told POLITICO that a slew of resignations followed the firings, due to Rauner's heavy reliance on a hardline conservative think tank, the Illinois Policy Institute.

E.J. McMahon of the conservative think tank The Empire Center wrote on his blog on Jan. 5th: «Handing even the average community college tuition to 940,000 - families would cost more than $ 4.5 billion.

[1] While the think - tank states it is politically independent, it has been labelled one of the most influential on the British Conservative Party under the leadership of David Cameron.

In the afternoon I joined a workshop on environmental and climate change policy, which was being run by the Green Alliance think tank for a group of my fellow Conservative candidates.

In a Daily Politics film, Giles Dilnot puts on a thinking cap to look at what they do with Nick Pearce, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, and Conservative MP Charlotte Leslie, who was at the Policy Exchange think tank.

Dean Cheng, a research fellow on Chinese political and security affairs at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy think tank, sees Chang» e 2's orbital gymnastics as part national pride, part scientific curiosity, and part political move: doing things at a First World level.

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

Several Democratic senators cited media reports that staffers on the Trump transition team are pushing a proposal by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank, to make deep cuts at DOE.

Will he call for the deep cuts to climate and environmental science, and research on renewable energy technologies, which some conservative lawmakers and think tanks have long advocated?

It is on the web site of Frontiers of Freedom, a conservative think tank funded by corporations like Exxonmobile.

Based on Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's nonfiction report of the same name, Robert Kenner's documentary looks at the scientists hired by corporations and conservative think - tanks to appear on news programs, touting skewed data about public health issues and climate change.

The news media uncritically use the Heritage Foundation as a source on education, even though the conservative think tank has no relevant education expertise, a recent report contends.

Chester E. Finn Jr., who served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education under President Reagan and is now a scholar at the conservative think tank, has also taken the helm of a little - known foundation he says will focus almost exclusively on K - 12 reform issues.

All three are influencing Mr. Dole's presidential campaign in different ways, yet they have something in common: All have been waiting in the wings as co-directors of Empower America, the Washington think tank that promotes «progressive conservative policies based on principles of economic growth, international leadership, and cultural renewal.»

Even many Republicans and conservative think tanks openly acknowledged last year that the formula should be changed to increase the weight of year to year improvement, but legislative leaders refused and so once again stigmatizing F's and D's are being slapped on most low - income schools regardless of the progress they are making.

«There's a total mismatch,» said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, who served on K12's board of directors until 2007.

«As an adult reader you can look at items on the fifth - and sixth - grade tests and be challenged yourself,» said Robert Pondiscio, senior fellow and vice president for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank.

The Fordham Institute, a Washington - based conservative think tank that generally supports the types of reform promoted in Race to the Top, periodically issues a study on state standards.

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.

«The Obama action on the Common Core really transformed it from a state - led initiative we could all agree on to something that was much more politically charged,» said Michael Brickman, the national policy director for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank that supports the standards.

The think tank says that although the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats are all proposing to spend more on 16 to 18 education over the course of the next parliament, only Labour's spending plans will result in a real - terms increase.

Bright Blue, an influential conservative think tank in the United Kingdom, issued a warning against reducing the interest rates on student loans, a move being considered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond.

The Tax Foundation, a conservative think tank, says the deduction is a giveaway for those with high incomes and big houses, because they are more likely to itemize their deductions rather than claim the standard deduction on their tax returns.

The on a formal level quite austere photographs provide an insight into the offices of the Mackinac Center, which is a conservative think tank, promoter of the free market, lower taxes, reduced regulation, and economic privatization, and place of origin of the so - called Overton window.

It's clear this is already happening and we can expect more op - eds in major newspapers from the likes of George Will, more full - page adverts from industry - funded propaganda mills masquerading as «conservative» think tanks, and more comments posted on every blog where global warming is discussed, denouncing the «vast liberal hoax» of anthropogenic global warming, because, you know, it's been proved that the earth isn't warming, and if it is, it has nothing to do with fossil fuels.

As I write in Chapter 1 of the report, in comparison to the relative diversity in goals among national environmental groups historically, conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and aligned industry associations are marked by a much narrower outlook focused on limited government, reduced regulation and economic growth.

On the one hand, it is very important for the political right to have this echo chamber out there — and the arguments generated by conservative think tanks would interact with the biased reasoning processes that are the subject of my piece in a kind of one - two combination.

Conservative think tanks that once championed geoengineering as easier and cheaper than cutting emissions have now all aligned with the view that the human impact on climate is so small that we don't even have to worry about it.

on Organizing denial: Conservative «think tanks» and the political tactic of environmental «skepticism»

«According to the report, conservative think - tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations raised some US$ 907 million during 2009, and spent a total of $ 787 million on their activities, with $ 259 million of that devoted specifically to climate and energy policy issues.

Weyrich helped found the Heritage Foundation in the same year, and also went on to found a range of other conservative think tanks including the Free Congress Foundation.

According to DeSmog research, Mont Pelerin members have ties to a wide range of conservative think tanks, many which have consistently denied the human influence on climate change.

Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («other organizations» meaning conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Conservative / Republican).