Sentences with phrase «protected thousands of jobs»

Among other achievements, he said he helped stop district efforts to use teacher performance ratings in evaluations and protected thousands of jobs from elimination last year.

Implementation of the order will protect thousands of jobs and strengthen energy security, while also ensuring that our policies provide clean air and clean water for all of our citizens.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on cheap imported panels was intended to protect American manufacturing jobs, but many in the solar industry have argued that tariffs will raise costs and trigger thousands of layoffs in the installation end of the industry.

WASHINGTON / LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a steep tariff on imported solar panels on Tuesday, a move billed as a way to protect American jobs but which the solar industry said would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) notes that the bill protects an estimated «thousands» of solar jobs which have been at risk due to the expiration of targets under the state's current solar policy.

To protect the interests of just one manufacturer, the Trump administration this month imposed a hefty tariff on Canadian paper imported by newspapers, putting thousands of media jobs at risk and threatening the ability of the press to hold government...

A far greater part of the text — thousands of pages in more than 30 chapters — has to do with harmonizing regulations (financial, health and safety standards, etc.), reinforcing intellectual property rights (patents, copyrights), opening up new sectors to privatization and foreign investment (health insurance and education), and putting strict limits on how governments choose to protect the environment or create jobs.

«He's scared that we're lowering your taxes, protecting our Second Amendment rights, and helping businesses create hundreds of thousands of new jobs,» Collins said, according to the Buffalo News.

«The reality is that this rule was not an effort to protect streams — it sought to regulate the coal industry out of business and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs in that industry,» said Rep. John Faso (R - Kinderhook) in a letter to the Daily Freeman last year.

«As the Council's Environmental [Committee] chairman, I want to continue working with my partners Mike Bloomberg to fully implement PlaNYC, his visionary environmental sustainability plan that is cleaning our air, reducing asthma, protecting our water supply and reviving our economy by creating thousands of green jobs and growing a thriving green economy,» said Gennaro, who did not endorse Bloomberg in 2001 or 2005.

In fact, these reports confirm what has been clear for some time now: sensible regulations can ensure safe natural gas development will protect land, water and public health while providing tens of thousands of good jobs throughout the Marcellus Shale.

Allies of Uber and the company itself have argued Mr. de Blasio, who has knocked Uber for clogging Manhattan streets and doing little to protect their workers, is killing thousands of jobs for minorities and low - income New Yorkers.

Both Jeremy Corbyn and Emily Thornberry have failed to engage substantively with the question of how tens of thousands of skilled, well paid and organized jobs in manufacturing and shipbuilding could be protected were the Trident successor programme to be cancelled, as they desire.

In particular the low - cost power generated at the Niagara Power Project has protected thousands of existing area jobs, and assisted in making our area attractive to new ventures such as the Yahoo Data Center.

Kelly Brannen, Managing Director of Niacet and Co-Chairman of Power for Economic Prosperity (PEP), said: «Governor Paterson has secured his legacy in Western New York by protecting the industrial base of the regional economy and with his actions tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs will be sustained for years to come.

Through these investments, we've already produced or protected hundreds of thousands of jobs.

«Michigan's Great Lakes are our most precious natural resource and protecting them — and the thousands of Michigan jobs they support — must be a top priority.

James Slevin, President, Utility Workers Union of America Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing climate change which affects my members, their families and their communities.

This will both protect our climate and create thousands of good - paying jobs.

SOA represents a diverse consensus - based membership of solar industries and environmentalists who are working hard to build a world - leading sustainable solar industry that will help protect the environment and create thousands of new jobs for the Province of Ontario.

The carrots in the measure were a 1 percent cut in the state's regressive sales tax, near elimination of business taxes for manufacturing to protect jobs, and tax rebates of up to $ 1,500 for hundreds of thousands of low - income households.

To protect the interests of just one manufacturer, the Trump administration this month imposed a hefty tariff on Canadian paper imported by newspapers, putting thousands of media jobs at risk and threatening the ability of the press to hold government...

Thousands of settlers were flocking to the territory and our job was to protect them.