Previously, the EPA had okayed shredded tires for civil engineering and public recreation projects, but
pressure by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has caused the EPA to reassess the possibility of health risks.
Not exact matches
Recently
pressures have been brought to bear on Congress and the president
by blacks, the elderly, women, consumers,
public employees, welfare mothers, the poor, atheists, militant students, homosexuals, Indians, and minorities of all sorts.
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The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the
public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Co
public interest group
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Co
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was
pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.
After he and several other
employees were
pressured to follow President Bush's «vision» for the agency
by a political appointee in NASA's Office of
Public Affairs, Hansen took the battle public and spoke with the New York
Public Affairs, Hansen took the battle
public and spoke with the New York
public and spoke with the New York Times.
The first meeting in San Francisco, from that, an effort called the Never Again Tech Pledge was created, and so it was spearheaded
by a handful of people starting off at that first meeting, and what that was about was resisting, or applying
pressure from the bottom of these tech companies, so
employees telling their management and telling the
public that they would not work on a Muslim registry, or any kind of registry that was based on race, religion, national origin.