Sentences with phrase «powerful industry groups»

The nation's largest and most powerful industry groups — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers — are now leading voices against climate action.

Globally, limits on emissions seemed to be limits on prosperity and growth, and the defenders of the status quo — powerful industry groups, concentrations of sovereign wealth, and ideological warriors — argued that climate activists were seeking to sabotage the modern industrial economy.

Such a strategy also makes powerful industry groups potential allies, rather than morally symbolic enemies.

Not exact matches

Continued Markham: «For fund managers, financial industry leaders or any regulated group, the ability to show a regulator a report of [expenditures] in real time, having spent far less time and money gathering that data relative to legacy solutions, is immensely powerful.»

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

Well Bill, I guess I do not see your group / religion as any more than a powerful lobby group, no different than oil and gas, defence industries, tobacco, NRA gun industry, etc..

The tax regime has been shaped by conflicting objectives: to raise revenue, to discourage excessive drinking and to meet the demands of politically powerful groups, most notably hotels, clubs and the wine industry.

This investor has seen the plant - based foods industry grow from a rag - tag group of brands serving a niche customer base to a powerful mainstream market force.

A pair of left - leaning advocacy groups criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to reform a controversial real estate tax break, calling on the progressive mayor to extract more concessions from the city's powerful real estate industry.

In that time, environmental and community groups turned the 124 - mile pipeline, which would have connected gas from Pennsylvania's robust fracking industry into a network of pipelines that terminate in Schoharie County, into a powerful symbol of the fossil fuel industry that causes climate change.

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.

It's the food industry that has the powerful lobby groups protecting and pushing protein - It's like protein has it's own billion dollar PR agency!

According to Achieve Hartford's own website, the education reform advocacy group is funded by some of the most powerful corporate education reform industry companies in the country including the Aetna, Prudential, Travelers, Bank of America, ING, The Phoenix and Metro - Hartford Alliance.

Thankfully, we have the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) representatives fighting proposed ordinances city by city, but they are up against very powerful, well - funded groups that have strong lobbying arms and rallying cries, which constantly put us on the defensive.

With that experience, Radisson Hotel Group has grown to become one of the largest hotel companies in the industry with a powerful set of brands that deliver world class hospitality and exceptional service.

«We are very excited to add ten more properties to Choice's Ascend Collection and harness the power of one of the lodging industry's most powerful central reservations systems,» said Rob Solomon, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Outrigger Enterprises Group.

It included a video installation of Ogoni dancing around pipelines — the lively and powerful contrasted with the inorganic and inert — and the first - ever photographs of the Ogele, secretive performance groups that emerged in the 1980s wearing masks that celebrated opposition to the oil industry.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

If I had avoided the error, the story still would have presented powerful evidence that a major industry group's own science advisers were saying the basics of greenhouse - driven warming were well established.

«It's powerful to see groups from across civil society coming to the same conclusion that in order to keep open any hope of an international climate treaty, we need to challenge the power of the fossil fuel industry.

But the system has also been the most «costly climate policy program in the world,» according to Jürgen R. Thumann, the president of BusinessEurope, a powerful confederation of industry and employer groups.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

And, as Anne Kelly of Ceres has noted, silence does not equal neutrality: industry associations and other powerful interest groups can claim to be speaking for those companies who do not speak for themselves.

His comment about the «threat» is a reference to recent remarks by the head of the American Petroleum Institute, the powerful industry trade group that recently warned of political «consequences» if Obama nixed Keystone XL.

He's met with representatives from powerful lobbying groups like the the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry as well as representatives from the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal.

The Khronos Group, the powerful industry consortium behind OpenGL, is toiling away on Vulkan, an open - source, platform - agnostic «closer to the metal» graphics API rising from the ashes of AMD's Mantle.

The Security Innovation Center, with backing of powerful tech industry groups, is arguing that letting consumers fix their own devices will empower hackers.

And one of the most powerful ways to network within your industry (and thereby open yourself up to more job opportunities) is by joining groups.

Editor's note: Published by the residential real estate strategic consulting and information firm Swanepoel T3 Group each January, the Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200) ranks the real estate industry's most powerful, influential leaders.

The Swanepoel Power 200 (SP200), the definitive ranking of residential real estate's 200 most powerful leaders from the Swanepoel T3 Group, holds a mirror up to the industry, reflecting its makeup, its leaders and its trajectory.

The group also publishes the annual Swanepoel Trends Report, its annual analysis of the top trends shaping the real estate industry; the bi-annual T3 Tech Guide; and the annual SP200, the ranking of real estate's most powerful leaders and executives.

Bottom line: No matter what the outcome of the CB matter against TREB is, the real estate industry will survive and be stronger than ever as they are a large and powerful group.

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