Sentences with phrase «pursue new efficiencies»

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In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

«The new state budget strikes a balance by making $ 12 million available, if needed, while ensuring that Albany pursues efficiencies,» Peters said in the WAMC report.

Pursuing sustainable irrigation without significant irrigation efficiency gains could negatively impact environmental and development goals in many areas of the world, a new study has found.

These are all reasons why any meaningful global energy quest, as I see it, starts with conservation and efficiency but still has to pursue new energy sources that can work for the long haul.

Levine's conclusion — which I am reprinting below — was that to be a «responsible participant and part of the solution» to the climate change challenge, the company should continue research, support energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and pursue new technologies.

The new 2025 energy efficiency target will cut emissions and energy costs by incentivizing building developers, commercial and institutional building owners, and residential households to pursue building improvements to reduce energy consumption by 185 trillion BTUs (British thermal units) below forecasted energy use in 2025, the equivalent to energy consumed by 1.8 million New York homnew 2025 energy efficiency target will cut emissions and energy costs by incentivizing building developers, commercial and institutional building owners, and residential households to pursue building improvements to reduce energy consumption by 185 trillion BTUs (British thermal units) below forecasted energy use in 2025, the equivalent to energy consumed by 1.8 million New York homNew York homes.

By pursuing a new dash for gas, while closing down its carbon capture and storage, renewable power and energy efficiency programmes, David Cameron's government makes a mockery of its promises.

So, until we see new breakthroughs in battery technology, display energy efficiency, or as ARM's Ian Drew puts it, «chips that don't consume power,» anything more ambitious than a Pebble just doesn't seem worth pursuing.

«An additional focus of the coalition will be on «inside of government» strategies and ensuring that known efficiencies have been fully studied and pursued prior to adopting new revenue tools.