Sentences with phrase «powerful industry interests»

Under intense pressure from powerful industry interests, the EPA opted not to require meaningful technology requirements that would protect ecosystems.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

It should be considered that finance - based legislature is similarly likely to be influenced by powerful influencers whose vested interests lie in centralized industry.

• Entrepreneurs disrupting the ice cream category • Social media used as a powerful tool, renewing interest in ice cream brands and flavors • Practical implications of formulating clean label • Regulatory and legislative issues facing the industry • Consumer trends • Innovative ice cream competition (participants tasted and evaluated approximately 45 ice cream / frozen novelties creations)

Halting the expansion of the dangerous pilot program and bringing it to an immediate end is the only conscientious and compassionate choice for the USDA, a federal agency that has the opportunity, and the responsibility, to put animals, consumers, and workers above powerful pork industry interests.

It's standing up for the wrong people — for powerful interests and not hardworking musicians, giving in to lobbying and not giving support to our music industry.

The governor, like de Blasio, must balance a push for stronger rent laws with the interests of the powerful real estate industry.

De Blasio had previously said it would be necessary to impose a year - long limit on the growth of Uber - like companies until the impact of the car - hail industry on congestion could be studied, and that the city's interests superceded those of a powerful corporation.

Let me tell you, it is not going to be easy to do that because they're powerful industries, who have, as their general interest, getting people to eat more food than last [year]-- that's just the way our investment system works.

The multi-billion dollar testing industry — dominated by a few large corporations that specialize in the making and scoring of standardized tests — has become an entrenched interest, a powerful component of a growing education - industrial complex.

As we move forward to a brave new world filled with mobile payment solutions and the like, interest in this kind of powerful ecosystem makes good sense (let's not forget that BlackBerry made an entire business out of being trusted by government and industry).

Many middle - class homeowners count on deduction as a way to save or a way to make ends meet, and the powerful real estate industry also depends on the mortgage interest tax.

So let's be clear about the facts: Galileo had the courage to speak truth to the powerful interests of his day in the Roman Catholic Church, just as two generations of scientists have tried to speak truth about climate change to executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel industry.

What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet - destroying toxin.

It is interesting that Mann now plays the role of the victim in purported persecution by powerful interests, darkly identified as the fossil - fuel industry.

Given that the issue relates to the creation of hugely powerful supranational institutions, a total transformation of the entire global economy, and the most far - reaching regulations of industry and of lifestyle ever conceived, I think that exchanges of tens of thousands of dollars between interested parties is completely insignificant.

These officials are supposed to represent the interests of citizens, not lobbyists for powerful industries.

Fortune — the fact that there are powerful vested interests, such as those who want to sustain the fossil fuel industry, or develop and selling carbon credits.

MANN: Unfortunately, there are powerful special interests in the fossil fuel industry for whom the prospect of climate change policy — a price on carbon emissions — would be extremely costly.

These health professionals should be honored, assert the three NGOs: It takes courage to uphold the rights of victims against the powerful coalition of vested interests that supports the wind industry.

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.

Students argued the moot court questions before the professor, but Harvard also involved legal writing, in that students drew up the pleadings, bills of exceptions, demurrers to evidence, special verdicts, and motions with the professor's help.100 In his report to Harvard's Board of Overseers, Professor Stearns touted the value of these practical skills exercises, writing that «no other exercise is so powerful an excitement to industry and emulation or so strongly interests the student in their professional pursuits.»

I share your astonishment that REM is the only media representative that is taking an interest in what is a matter involving a huge Canadian Industry, that continues to be under what amounts to an assault by one of Canada's most powerful and influential Federal Government Agencies.