Sentences with phrase «penalties against»

Federal environmental officials have said that if it did that, they would most likely order the cleanup to proceed and levy enormous penalties against the company.

Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has collected, on average, 49 percent less in civil penalties against violators of federal environmental laws than in the first year of the previous three administrations, according to a new report from the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project.

This Workshop was conceived by history professor Naomi Oreskes, who was obsessed with prosecuting fossil fuel producers with the same legal tools successfully used to win billions of dollars in penalties against the tobacco industry.

Today, it continues its long court battle challenging the constitutionality of the nation's landmark 1980 Superfund law, which gives the EPA the right to order recalcitrant companies to clean up their hazardous wastes and levy hefty penalties against them.

As a result, in 2014, the original PAWS Act was passed and strengthened penalties against animal abuse.

They must offer support and incentives to encourage and reward responsible pet ownership; and they must enforce reasonable penalties against irresponsible pet owners to bring them into compliance.

The legislative backfire gallery — laws intended to achieve an admirable goal such as reducing neighborhood nuisances, stray cats or discarded dogs but which often achieve the opposite effect — include arbitrary pet limit laws, bans against specific breeds, penalties against feeding neighborhood cats, outlawing elective veterinary procedures like debarking and declawing or charging exorbitant licensing fees for intact animals.

«What I personally want to see is a dangerous dog ordinance that deals with all dangerous dogs and how they need to be kept when off someone's property, and what are the penalties against owners whose dogs either bite another dog, person or damage property,» said committee chairman Steve Serchuk.

This year, the citizen lobbyists will focus on a slate of animal initiatives, including legislation to end the shooting of exotic mammals held captive in fenced enclosures, a bill to strengthen penalties against animal fighting, and legislation to crack down on cruel puppy mills.

ADLA and its partners in the Humane Legislation Coalition of Arizona in partnership with Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, worked to develop a bill that strengthens penalties against convicted animal abusers.

Penalties against people convicted of animal cruelty will face fines of up to $ 30,000 and / or a three - year jail term in Singapore.

The BC Real Estate Association, a trade group for roughly 23,000 agents in the province, issued a statement on Monday saying it supports efforts to track pre-sale information, increase transparency and enforce higher penalties against unethical realtors.

The decision also levies nearly $ 200,000 in penalties against the company for defrauding thousands of New Yorkers who looked to the company to negotiate reductions in their personal debt.

And if laws were broken there could be penalties against financial institutions.

resulting in stiff penalties against the governments in an effort to help their citizens purchase books, regardless of format.

DOJ attorney Lawrence Buterman argued that the proposed penalties against Apple were meant to protect consumers.

n separate cases, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today assessed civil penalties against Continental Airlines and US Airways for violating the Department's rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.

While No Child Left Behind initially had a provision for penalties against large opt out numbers, which carried over to the new Every Student Succeeds Act, the «testocracy» seems to be too afraid to use this clause.

BAT is the acronym for Badass Teachers, a group of more than 36,000 teachers who use the association as an outlet for both the creativity they feel is stifled by Common Core as well as a place to find solace and validation among other professionals who understand how dispiriting teaching has become under the constant threat of the education reform's harsh penalties against instructors.

Another amendment makes «crossing or working behind a Union picket line» an act that would bring the union «into disrepute,» and potentially invite union charges and penalties against any member who does so.

Williams suggested stronger penalties against both individual athletes and entire teams, along with stiffer legal sanctions.

While the manhunt for the two escaped murderers continues in northern New York, Republican State Senator Kathy Marchione of Halfmoon says she would introduce a bill to strengthen penalties against anyone accused of aiding a prisoner's escape.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

Officials attribute the decline to smarter choices by drivers, tougher penalties against offenders and possibly new ride - hailing options like Uber and Lyft.

The councilman, who acts as the Council Public Safety Committee chairman, has been a staunch opponent of graffiti in western Queens, passing laws that ban etching acid and increasing penalties against vandals.

On other issues, the commissioner said he wanted to make resisting arrest a felony and called for stiffer penalties against people who post personal information about police officers.

WHEREAS, the Cortland County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Inc. acknowledges that in 2008, the Supreme Court established, via District of Columbia vs Heller, that the Second Amendment does not limit laws regulating the sales of guns, or prohibit possession of guns by the mentally ill or by felons, nor does it prohibit penalties against the carrying of guns in schools and government buildings; and

Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed Jay - J's Law, legislation that allows for tougher penalties against repeat child abusers.

Day said the new enforcement efforts and court programs would be funded through fines and penalties against violators.

NEW YORK (WCBS 880)-- Governor Andrew Cuomo is making a new push to increase fines and penalties against distracted drivers in New York state.

Social Services Commissioner Dankert - Maurer said, «These long - needed reforms will strengthen CPS investigations by providing workers with accurate and up - to - date information on the individuals and homes they are visiting, toughening penalties against abusers, and fortifying the reporting system to diminish false reports.

Golden said, among other things, his bill would require rapid notification of any breach of email accounts or credit cards and enforce penalties against the owners of email and web services when breaches occur.

The state Senate unanimously passed legislation Monday that would stiffen criminal penalties against unlicensed drivers who kill or seriously injure someone.

Proposals include tightening the state's ban on assault weapons, strengthening penalties against illegal guns, and reforming mental health policy.

Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden, a former city cop, plans to introduce legislation stiffening penalties against people who plant so - called community guns — weapons hidden in key locations for use by groups of gang members and other criminals.

Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. is giving out grants, from $ 808 million worth of criminal penalties against three international banks, for public and private criminal justice programs in New York and around the nation.

The president's anti-hacking penalties against Russia include closing two compounds, one of which The Washington Post identified as a 14 - acre Glen Cove, Long Island estate the Soviets bought in 1954.

Anthony Albanese, the acting head of New York's Department of Financial Services, will step down before the end of the year, giving Cuomo a run at reshaping a regulator that has levied billions of dollars of penalties against international banks and at times raised hackles in foreign capitals.

According to him, the NCA did not come to Parliament to seek approval for its reviewed schedule of fees for the imposition of penalties against the 131 defaulted radio stations.

Sanctions against Russia's mining, metals and shipping industries would be tied to another bill imposing a new round of penalties against Iran.The legislation could be voted on as early as this week.

Introduced by Squadron and State Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, the legislation would increase penalties against careless drivers.

Local elected officials are praising Governor Paterson for signing «Hayley and Diego's Law,» legislation that will increase penalties against careless drivers.

State Senator Brad Hoylman and Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, both Democrats representing Manhattan, want to hike penalties against landlords who overcharge stabilized tenants to five times the amount of the overcharge, plus interest, for a first violation.

Sanctions against Russia's mining, metals and shipping industries would be tied to another bill imposing a new round of penalties against Iran

CITY HALL — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other lawmakers called for tougher penalties against sexual predators Tuesday following a rash of sexual assaults in the city that have left many women on edge.

[19] When the Commons voted on the bill of pains and penalties against Atterbury, nearly ninety per cent of Tory MPs voted against it.

This year, the governor downplayed the issue, listing it with a number of other steps he wants to take, including stricter penalties against bribery, creating an independent agency to police campaign filing violations and greater disclosure by lawmakers of their private law clients who have business before the state.

Running for her fifth term in the Assembly, Rosenthal has sponsored legislation that would allow prosecutors to seek enhanced penalties against repeat dangerous and reckless drivers, as well as legislation regarding the misguided «rule of two» that would hold drivers accountable for their actions in crashes that injure or kill.

Linda Rosenthal, Assembly District 67, Upper West Side, Hell's Kitchen (Incumbent)-- Running for her fifth term in the Assembly, Rosenthal has sponsored legislation that would allow prosecutors to seek enhanced penalties against repeat dangerous and reckless drivers, as well as legislation regarding the misguided «rule of two» that would hold drivers accountable for their actions in crashes that injure or kill.

Several African leaders are engaging in crude majoritarianism — removing term limits on the presidency or expanding penalties against homosexual behaviour, as Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni did on February 24th.