Sentences with phrase «public interest group center»

Citing the close race against Avella, the former head of public interest group Center for Community Interest said he hoped to draw on his years working alongside former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to restore honesty throughout the district.

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children, last year sued McDonald's to stop it from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants.

New technologies centered around the increasingly more powerful personal computer are enabling smaller entrepreneurs and public interest groups to publish newsletters and produce radio and video cassettes of an «alternative» provenance that criticizes the mainstream.

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Although the cancer study has been challenged by the European Food Safety Agency (a group that has strong food industry ties), I will side with the unbiased Center for Science in the Public Interest on this one.

He headed to Chicago and worked for several nonprofit organizations, including the Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the Nkrumah Washington Community Learning Center, in the heart of gang territory.

The commission was convened by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit, health advocacy group based in Washington.

I received invaluable assistance from the Center for Science in the Public Interest in getting the letter circulated, and it has now been signed by 29 organizations and individuals, including: CSPI; the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; Healthy, Child, Healthy World; The Healthy Schools Campaign; Chef Ann Cooper; Dr. Yoni Freedhoff and many more.

According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food and nutrition lobbying group that supports the bill, seltzer water is forbidden under the guidelines while candy bars, cookies and potato chips are allowed.

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

Just change what's in them,» said Margo Wootan, head of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group.

«It is clear that the complex array of federal food safety programs doesn't adequately protect America's schoolchildren,» said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

When the school lunch program was institutionalized across the country in 1946, Congress voted 9 cents for every child in the country eating school lunch, according to Victoria Leonard, director of Children «s Nutrition for the Center for Science and Public Interest, a Washington - based consumer activist group.

«A la carte is a huge problem,» said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington consumer group.

For that, you must go elsewhere, for example, to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Berkeley Media Studies Group, or the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy for the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, agrees.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

Similarly, James Weill, president of Food Research & Action Center, a leading anti-hunger group, referred to the bill in a press release as «ill conceived» and «deeply flawed,» while Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, stated that the bill «would roll back key progress that schools, health advocates, and the Administration have worked so hard to achieve over the last six years.»

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance rGroups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance rgroups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The list includes the New York Public Interest Research Group, League of Women Voters, Empire Justice Center, Common Cause, Consumers Union and the Brennan Center for Justice.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

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E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

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The Brennan Center for Justice, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York City, and New York Public Interest Research Group submitted a friend - of - the - court brief this week, urging the federal district court hearing the case to uphold the law.

Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has divested his interest in Diamond S Shipping Group Inc., one of the world's largest owners and operators of medium - range tanker vessels and the subject of a Center for Public Integrity investigation.

Further, a coalition of six good - government groups wrote to the board demanding a revision to the 1996 opinion — they were the Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, the League of Women Voters, Citizens Union, the New York Public Interest Research Group and Reinvent Albany.

The event is co-sponsored by the Brennan Center, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, and New York Public Interest Research Group.

He co-authored a report along with three government reform groups — the New York Public Interest Research Group, Reinvent Albany and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University — that included 11 executive orders «tailor - made for Gov. Cuomo to launch his campaign to transform New York government,» according to John Kaehny, executive director of Reinvent Albany.

Government watchdog groups — including the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York State and the New York Public Interest Research Group — sent a complaint to the state's Committee on Open Government while the hearing was still under way on Tuesday afternoon, alleging violations of the state's Open Meetings Law.

Eleven prisoners died of cancer from 2010 through 2013, and six others have been diagnosed with cancer at the State Correctional Institution Fayette, said the report, released by the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm based in Pittsburgh, and the Human Rights Coalition, a national prison reform group.

«The government is clearly increasing its reliance on industry and forming «joint ventures» to accomplish research that it is unable to afford on its own anymore,» says Merrill Goozner, a program director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.

Participants in the coalition — 1000 Friends of New Mexico, Greater Albuquerque Spokespeople, New Mexico Public Interest Research Group, Sage Council, and Southwest Research and Information Center — have been active in the Quail Ranch case since the mid-1990s.

Groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add safety warnings to energy drinks, and American Academy of Pediatrics researchers have argued the stimulants in energy drinks have «no place in the diet of children and adolescents.»

In 1988, a vegetarian - oriented food activist group, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), warned the American public against the dangers of saturated fat and campaigned for the food industry to switch from beef tallow and lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — specifically soybeaPublic Interest (CSPI), warned the American public against the dangers of saturated fat and campaigned for the food industry to switch from beef tallow and lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — specifically soybeapublic against the dangers of saturated fat and campaigned for the food industry to switch from beef tallow and lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil — specifically soybean oil.

It was, together with Neotame, the only artificial sweetener to be endorsed by the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

According to the consumer advocacy group the Center for Science in the Public Interest, seven of the 13 experts on President Bush's newly appointed task force, which is assembled to create the next version of the food pyramid, have received research and consulting money from the food and drug industries.

Thanks to the underhanded work of industry front groups like the Center for Science in the «Public Interest», in the 1980s Americans had partially hydrogenated oils foisted on them as health foods.

Health advocacy groups, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, say a six to 12 month phase - out period should be more than enough time to get trans fats off the shelves.

While the use of food dyes has been a concern for years, the U.S. nonprofit watchdog group Center for Science in the Public Interest made a plea to the Food and Drug Administration to ban the chemical in American foods.

In August 2016, the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC)-- supported by nearly 40 other public interest groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)-- sent a letter to Education Secretary John King demanding the department track and remedy the disproportionate consequences of student loan debt for borrowers of color.

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Never mind that none of these groups are actually interested in either modernizing or elevating anything, and are instead working to hasten the privatization of public education, and turning P - 12 schools and college teacher education programs into profit centers.

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Co-curated by Betti - Sue Hertz of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ruijun Shen of GuangDong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China, and Xiaoyu Weng of Kadist Art Foundation, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, the group exhibition is also a site to bring together three public art spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative painting.

Ken Ward has 25 years leadership and campaigning experience with the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, Greenpeace USA, Public Interest GRFX, and the National Environmental Law Center.

And the Center for Science in the public Interest stated in June 2008, «Each group continued to receive Exxon funding in 2007 after the company's first announcement that it would discontinue the payments.

The information that Dr Soon had truthfully disclosed to the Center for its internal purposes has now been made public and has been unfairly exploited by external vested interests to launch attacks on him, his colleagues, and the Center because the interests of these outside groups are threatened by his scientific findings.