Sentences with phrase «public power industry»

Surprisingly, there appears to be a general lack of awareness about climate science among some high - level officials in the public power industry in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.

That some in the New England public power industry still think there's a debate on climate, was reason for concern to others.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Cosmetics - industry reports and articles he'd studied at the Dallas Public Library confirmed the women's purchasing power.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

When the U.S. government made weather and GPS data available to the public, it powered a billion - dollar industry.

Besides being on the board of several HDFC group companies, Mr. Mistry is a director on the board of other public limited companies such as HCL Technologies, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Torrent Power.

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The TPP's controversial ISDS rules will limit government powers to regulate in the public interest, including by supporting industries that create good local jobs, and protecting the environment.

• The Lone Analyst Who Said Sell Valeant When Hedge Funds Piled In (Bloomberg) • The Great Investment Advice Hidden in Warren Buffett's Annual Letter (Fortune) • Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)(Vox) • Former hedge fund manager Phil Falcone spoke in public for the first time in years, and slammed the industry (Business Insider) • Swedroe: EM Looks Terrible — Time To Buy (ETF) • The U.S. Could Use a New Economic Strategy (Bloomberg View) • How Marissa Mayer Keeps Talent: Meet Yahoo's $ 18 Million CRO (Re / code) • Does a Carbon Tax Work?

«With the political race already drawing substantial media attention and potential candidates doing everything in their power to gain the support of the public at large, regulation of the hedge fund industry is a topic that will likely receive significant attention throughout the campaign period.»

A research and public engagement project investigating the power of the fossil fuel industry in Western Canada, led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC and Saskatchewan Offices) and Parkland Institute.

The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

The power of the television industry has acted in this way to shape the public perception of American religious life and culture, not so much by the creation of a particular phenomenon, but by the selective promotion of one particular expression over another in a way that distorts the factual situation.

The objective here is to humanize the structures which govern the media, both by encouraging persons within the industry to «do well by doing good,» and by insisting that the social and economic powers of the industry must be counterbalanced by governmental power which politically expresses the concern of citizens for the general public welfare.

If the treatment of bobby calves is to improve, it is imperative that the industry becomes accountable and for the public to exercise their consumer power.

There had been speculation that the business secretary would use his powers to prevent the takeover after consultation with media watchdog Ofcom as a matter of public interest if it was thought the takeover would damage the plurality of the industry.

Quinn's coldness toward animals in the horse and carriage industry showed voters her true colors as animal lovers across the city realized that she was not to be trusted with public power.

Denying public subsidies to the nuclear industry could leave the Liberal Democrats in a «win - win situation» on nuclear power, the party's former environment spokesman has suggested.

Now an investigation by the British Medial Journal has found that since the coalition came to power it has met with the drinks industry on 130 occasions, including two times after a public consultation on minimum pricing had concluded.

They argued that releasing detailed information about nuclear power and pesticides would convince the public that these industries were safe.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

But power industry executives say that the Chinese state - run nuclear power companies and local governments lack the communication skills to reassure the public at a time of heightened fears about safety.

But is it necessary for every aspect of nuclear power to be re-examined by a cascade of public inquiries every time the nuclear industry proposes to build a reactor, especially when it is virtually identical to its predecessor and on a site which has already been licensed?

«The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through Congress, to low - ball the potential consequences of a fire because of concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear power plants,» said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

In Germany, where public opinion is generally opposed to nuclear power, Chancellor Angela Merkel suspended for 3 months a newly enacted law covering the country's nuclear power industry.

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You have been listening to Arnie Gundersen, the nuclear industry executive who has become an expert witness and public voice on nuclear power safety.

Finch, who as mayor of Bridgeport undermined Bridgeport's public schools, supported and defended education reformer extraordinaire Paul Vallas, handed tens of millions of dollars in public funds to the charter school industry and used his power for personal gain, has landed nicely on his feet, after getting thrown out of office by Bridgeport voters.

Wendy Lecker puts her finger on two things of great importance: first, certain of the power brokers in public education in Connecticut are determined to increase the number of privately managed charter schools, and they are using every opportunity that presents itself — from the Sheff settlement to the Turnaround option in Obama's Race to the Top — to pursue just this goal; and second, a key factor in the advance of school privatization is «the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative... that our public education system is failing.»

Unlike the critics who argue that e-reading still isn't powerful enough to change the publishing industry as a whole, for now the reading public is proving that digital reading is a recognized power player in terms of overall sales.

A retailer at 13 times earnings is often a bad use of your research time, because it's unlikely to have absurdly high market power (due to the industry it's in) and it's unlikely to be absurdly cheap (13 times earnings is a pretty ho - hum price that most stocks hit at some point in their history as a public company).

Standout Sectors: Here, by far the biggest high - wage industry is professional, scientific, and technical services, a category that includes law firms, public relations specialists, and many of the other specialty professions that thrive in the nation's seat of political power.

Delving into the economic and labor history of the sugar industry, the sculpture drew on matters of race, gender, power and subjugation, standard themes of Walker's practice that are familiar to her blue - chip art world audience, but not so readily understood by the general public.

«8.5 The nuclear power industry: a tactician behind the CO2 based global warming In my view, the CO2 based global warming theory was contrived to revive a nuclear power generation industry that suffered from high cost infrastructure and from a bad public image after the disastrous Chernobyl accident in 1986.

Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry has tremendous assets available to them which they use to purchase political power, as well as sponsor fake science and bogus «public education» campaigns.

Take that away, and the Clean Power Plan is unexceptional, just the latest of a long line of clean air standards to curb the public health and environmental toll that the power industry — the nation's biggest polluter — exacts on the American pePower Plan is unexceptional, just the latest of a long line of clean air standards to curb the public health and environmental toll that the power industry — the nation's biggest polluter — exacts on the American pepower industry — the nation's biggest polluter — exacts on the American people.

The groups participating in the motion included the Advanced Energy Economy, the American Biogas Council, the American Council on Renewable Energy, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Public Power Association, the American Wind Energy Association, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Electric Power Supply Association, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, the Energy Storage Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Natural Gas Supply Association, and the Solar Energy Industries Association.

In 2010, Stacy would reveal that his group, Save Western Ohio, had a «network of experts» that included the Heartland Institute and «experts from the energy industry» who worked together to «promote and market» anti-wind power views, as well as recruit witnesses and review testimony for public hearings on energy issues.

, demonstrate how public support for wind power remains strong despite the years of misleading attacks backed by the fossil fuel industry.

Following rounds of consultation with the public and industry, it was clear that one priority was preventing a drastic fallout by the battered power generation sector, which had voiced concerns about the new tax.

Industry witnesses were lining up Sept. 11 to take shots at a proposal by the Ohio Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Power unit of American Electric Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Power to protect the futures of about 3,100 MW of coal - fired generation through a power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of power purchase agreement it wants approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

As well as a strong deal in Paris, it needed citizens to choose public transport over cars and insulate their homes, and industry to tackle sources of greenhouse gas emissions such as power stations, transport, cement, farming and fertilisers.

Goreham's session was summarized in the NEPPA conference material as offering «a discussion about energy, electricity and modern society, with common sense about climate change, public policy, and implications for the power industry.»

But Michele Beck, director of the Utah Office of Consumer Services, said the solar industry's concerns might fall outside the scope of the discussion within the Public Service Commission, which now must decide whether to approve Rocky Mountain Power's proposed rate structure.

-- The term «qualified industry organization» means the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a successor organization of such organizations, or a group of owners or operators of distribution utilities delivering fossil fuel - based electricity who collectively represent at least 20 percent of the volume of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered by distribution utilities to consumers in the United States.

The latest resolution calls on Trump and Congress to hand over the power to regulate and permit fossil fuel development on public lands to the states, where the industry has its greatest power and influence over government.

But Southern, which relies heavily on coal at its other power plants in the south - east, has been outspoken in its opposition to the EPA's new regulations — and the use of its plant to sell them to a skeptical industry and public.

In the UK and in China, they grew to occupy sizeable percentage of total energy production, partly due to the hydro - electric companies but also because solar and wind power have built a large following in the private and public industry.