Sentences with phrase «protection groups campaigning»

HSI, one of the world's leading animal protection groups campaigning for an end to China's dog meat trade, has been on the ground in Yulin and other Chinese regions for the past few years, working with Chinese partner groups to rescue dogs from trucks bound for the dog meat markets, uncover the immense cruelty that takes place at the slaughterhouses, and draw attention to the plight of the animals.

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The group spearheading a campaign against Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is a project of a low - profile progressive dark money organization with large assets.

We've joined forces with Israel's foremost animal protection groups to give the victims of the live export trade to Israel an unprecendented voice in a ground - breaking new campaign.

The Flood Free Homes campaign, launched by the Association of British Insurers and supported by Friends of the Earth, National Flood Forum, Know Your Flood Risk, The BRE Centre for Resilience and the Property Care Association's Flood Protection Group, is calling for no home to be at high risk of flooding by 2025.

According to a report in today's City Hall News, the same consulting firm that handled the ads for the «NYC Not for Sale» campaign last year — the Advance Group — is handling a $ 200,000 labor - funded ad buy to help three Democratic incumbent senators — Foley, Aubertine and Valesky — in hopes of ultimately seeing passage of the Taxpayer Protection Act.

She added the group «strongly believes that the new law will not stand up on appeal» because of campaign spending protections encoded in the Citizens United decision.

It ends with a call for state and federal lawmakers to reject campaign contributions from gun rights groups like the NRA, enact stricter licensing and registration requirements for guns, a ban on «all classes of weapons that do not serve the specific uses of personal protection and sport shooting» and other gun control measures.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty issued a five - page ruling in New York Progress and Protection PAC v. Walsh, overturning New York State's aggregate campaign contribution cap on donations to independent political groups.

Green's group helped organize a campaign pressuring the White House to nominate Warren for the top job at the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency she initially proposed.

He is in charge of the national group's Healthy Air Campaign, which advocates for clean air protections.

Tenants PAC is essentially the political arm of the Real Rent Reform Campaign, which is an umbrella organization of pro-tenant groups, including the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, that advocates for tenant protection legislation.

Bernstein's legal costs are being underwritten by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group based in Washington DC, which campaigns for the extension of constitutional protection to the Internet.

In the 2014 legislative sessions, more than 80 bills in 32 states addressed student - data protection issues, according to the Data Quality Campaign, a Washington - based group that seeks to promote the use of educational data to improve student achievement.

For that reason, a number of environmental groups, including the U.S. - government sponsored Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), started campaigns to educate people in pre-1950 homes not to replace their windows.

United Animal Nations, a national non-profit animal protection group, launched its «My Dog is Cool» Campaign to prevent dogs and other animals from dying in hot cars during warm - weather months.

In China, we support the efforts more than 35 animal protection groups in campaigning, public education and hands - on rescue.

She chaired the Governance Review Committee and the Advocacy Committee and is particularly proud of that group's successful End Animal Cruelty campaign, which ultimately saw increased protection for abused and neglected animals through new cruelty legislation enacted by the BC government.

Missourians for the Protection of Dogs, the group spearheading the ballot measure to prevent puppy mill cruelty, launched a statewide radio campaign urging state lawmakers not to undermine the citizen - backed initiative.

Brussels, Belgium — The Don't Buy From Icelandic Whalers campaign, an alliance of 14 conservation and animal protection groups, has reacted with dismay to the news that...

Cathy Zoi, who heads the Alliance for Climate Protection, the group running the campaign, and is a former Clinton administration environmental aide, described the initiative last week at an Aspen Institute meeting on environmental issues.

In 1997, Schops and a group of friends began working with RLKM to campaign for permanent protection of a piece of the Limburg landscape through the creation of Belgium's first national park.

«A coalition of environmental groups is teaming up for a multi-pronged campaign to try to get Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt fired or to resign.»

Prior to that, Casey co-founded with her former husband, the American Oceans Campaign (AOC), a non-profit response and advocacy group for the protection of our oceans which has since merged with Oceana.

So this is what Green Audit and other anti-nuclear campaign groups thrive on: distrust of both the nuclear industry and official health protection and regulatory agencies, allowing them to invoke shadowy conspiracies by men in white lab coats who presumably enjoy foisting dangerous radioactive materials on an unwilling public, all no doubt controlled by a sinister mastermind bearing a striking resemblance to Mr Burns off the Simpsons, the evil boss of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Mr. Trump, who had called the city a «hellhole» while campaigning in 2016, was greeted by a huge coalition of individuals and groups denouncing his dangerous climate policies, devastating rollbacks of social and environmental protections, misogyny, Islamophobia, racism and more.

The group campaigns on areas including protection of local biodiversity, sustainable water management, climate and energy, genetically modified organisms, simple living, economical degrowth, and transition towns.

In the face of daunting national and global developments threatening the progress of plug - in vehicles, cleantech, and responses to climate change, he's active in groups including Environmental Entrepreneurs http://www.e2.org (see below), the reincarnation of the Alliance for Climate Protection http://climaterealityproject.org/ (watch on Sept. 14) and the global campaign sparked by Bill McKibben http://www.350.org.

They've also worked long and hard to tear down laws and protections that limit corporate control of our elected officials, dumping ever more money in politics, along with campaigns and strategic litigation designed to suppress or disenfranchise key groups of voters, especially low - income and people of color.

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As Facebook polls its users on site governance and privacy policy — a poll that looks very likely to result in Facebook href = «https://beta.techcrunch.com/2012/11/21/facebook-site-governance-vote/"> withdrawing users» ability to vote on site governance changes — the European activists behind the Europe v Facebook campaign group, which accuses Facebook of violating Europe's Data Protection Laws, have stepped up their long - running battle against the social network.