Sentences with phrase «rather business lobbies»

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Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

Tamasin Cave, director of the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency said: «By breaking the rules, Amber Rudd gives the impression she'd rather we didn't know about her brother's lobbying business, or his many clients in the energy businessLobbying Transparency said: «By breaking the rules, Amber Rudd gives the impression she'd rather we didn't know about her brother's lobbying business, or his many clients in the energy businesslobbying business, or his many clients in the energy business.»

Rather than expend millions of dollars in massive giveaways to the greedy test industry and their lobbying business partners in the charter - school movement, there is no doubt that this assessment expectation could be accomplished more simply and more cost effectively.

If you have a business with a lobby or waiting area for customers, you can subscribe to magazines on the iPad and leave the iPad for general use rather than cluttering up the table with months of out of date periodicals.

What I find puzzling is Dauphine's rather David - and - Goliath portrayal of the «cat lobby» (my term, not hers) they're up against — in particular, her complaint, «promotion of TNR is big business, with such large amounts of money in play that conservation scientists opposing TNR can't begin to compete.»

This year: Submit a meaningful QELRO that would require a 40 % reduction by 2020; produce a low carbon development plan; tell us when gross emissions will peak; listen to the voices of progressive business leaders and agricultural scientists who can help us get there, rather than the usual head - in - the - sand lobby groups; and get a new attitude.

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

«Perhaps if they had spent more time and money diversifying their business rather than on lobbying against climate action and sowing the seeds of doubt about the science, they might not have joined the long (and ever growing) list of bankrupt global coal companies.»

Now Exxon has changed its position, recognising the inevitability of some sort of controls on CO2 emissions, and lobbying for a broad approach that will be relatively favourable to businesses like Exxon, rather than one tightly focused on the energy industry.

Industry should play its part in the fight against climate change by persuading governments to aid carbon cuts rather than lobbying against them, the UN secretary - general told a business conference on Sunday.