Sentences with phrase «opposing industry efforts»

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Cultural protections — The U.S. and its entertainment industries have always strenuously opposed Canadian efforts to exclude cultural industries and policies.

Additionally, due (in part) to the lobbying and marketing efforts of the dairy industry, many healthcare providers advising families about nutrition are educated most heavily regarding the nutritional aspects of dairy - based milk, as opposed to alternative nutritional sources.

De Blasio was also heckled by a handful of horse - carriage drivers who oppose his effort to ban the industry.

After teaming up with hotel owners and state lawmakers last year to hand home - sharing behemoth Airbnb a major setback in New York, he has hooked up with Mayor Bill de Blasio in an effort that some industry players adamantly oppose.

Anyone interested in Connecticut's future should be deeply concerned about the way Democratic legislative leaders handled the General Electric Co. fiasco as opposed to their all - out effort to preserve Connecticut's casino industry by expanding casino gambling in the state.

The chain of coffee shops publicizes its efforts in social responsibility, but pays money to an industry advocacy group that actively opposes your right to know what is in your food.

While Families for Excellent Schools and the entire charter school industry continue to expand their lobbying efforts, Neil Vigdor, of the Hearst Media Group, reports that Families for Excellent Schools and other so - called education reformers have set up another Political Action Committee that they will be using to reward and punish candidates who support or oppose their agenda.

The industry is leaving a lot of experience at the door by not recognizing experienced engineers that go through the effort of learning game design, and quite honestly, those people are probably going to be much better right from the start, as opposed to a fresh out of college kid who has to be told how to program for other people's work, and from my experience, most college level game engineering degrees turn out engineers which are woefully inept at what actually is required for high end game development.

The Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit organization and a front group for the energy industry that opposes political efforts to regulate carbon standards while advancing deep water and land - based drilling for oil and methane gas.

Some very unlikely allies are stepping up to oppose Suniva's efforts, not so much because they like solar, but because they are worried about the trade policy precedent that could be set by the case and how that could impact other growth industries.

On the other hand, proponents of taking action to curb climate change charge that efforts at reform are being opposed by the coal, oil, and natural - gas industries and from oil - rich countries like Saudi Arabia.

These initiatives put aviation on a path to address its climate impact, but are heavily opposed by the industry, which demands continued exemptions from such efforts to reduce the sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

In response to all the threats, Climate Solutions is part of a broad constituency as part of the Stand Up to Oil campaign, opposing with a collective voice the industry efforts to turn our region into a fossil fuel highway, supporting efforts to make existing transport safer and working to hasten our transition to clean energy.

To push back against this latest effort — yet another example of the unholy alliance between the fossil fuels industry and D.C. pols — an online drive spearheaded by 350.org is aspiring to collect 500,000 signatures opposing the bill.

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

Efforts by the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress to pass legislation reducing greenhouse gas emissions failed in the Senate in 2010, and industries represented by the data released on Wednesday have spent heavily to oppose such laws.

California officials said there's a reason the industry opposes its efforts: While the new federal standards would raise fuel economy to 31.6 miles per gallon by 2015, California's rules would require the U.S. vehicle fleet to get 36 miles per gallon by 2015.

Ironically, CREA's focus on raising us up through their various forms of advertising initiatives, is exactly the approach that has been taken by some industry members — whose success is really about their personal marketing efforts, as opposed to their real estate marketing efforts.

Our leaders top priority continues to be a focus on industry marketing efforts, as opposed to what and how we actually deliver when servicing consumers — broadly speaking.

Here in Colorado, the home building industry has consistently opposed any efforts to crack down on illegal employment by high powered lobbying efforts.