Sentences with phrase «produce good public policy»

This is why it is so important to have intellectual and ideological diversity within any group or institution whose goal is to find truth (such as an intelligence agency or community of scientists) or to produce good public policy (such as a legislature or an advisory board).

Not exact matches

«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

Does he know that public policy no matter how well it follows an education administrator's wet dream can not produce Einsteinian genius regarding scientific truth?

Only in Albany would you find people who think that a program which has run for more than 10 years without producing a single result is good public policy.»

At Total Politics Events we focus on public policy conferences, we produce our own conferences as well as organising events on behalf of clients, providing a first class service, originality, creativity and commitment.

Based on the model outputs from 1960 to the present, policymakers and the public would be better served by rejecting the alarmist scenarios A and B; instead, moving forward, base all adaption and mitigation policies on Scenario «C», which would likely produce better outcomes with superior allocation of scarce resources.

It also means contributing to the wider analysis of the problem — through research and technology and through engagement in the search for the best public policy mechanisms, the actions which can produce the right solutions for the long - term common interest.

If regulators don't order a refund of all tax savings, they might require some money to go to projects that produce savings and other public benefits, «such as modernizing the utilities» grids to allow for better incorporation of clean energy resources,» suggested a joint brief filed by the Environmental Defense Fund, Ohio Environmental Council, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and the Environmental Law & Policy Center.

The research of the group produces relevant information on socially significant weather phenomena and their impacts as well as on changing climate for the policy - makers and the general public.

Finally, in the interest of maintaining public oversight of law enforcement's use of such surveillance technology, EFF recommends that Congress enact a transparency policy that requires law enforcement agencies to produce annual reports on the number of times an agency uses cell - site simulators, as well as against whom, when, where, and how.

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Ideally, states would increase general fund appropriations to address the policies outlined in this report, recognizing that investing in young children is a public good that produces a significant return on investment.