Sentences with phrase «regulated by agency»

The family is given an «adjustment» period that is regulated by the agency, to see if the child is a good fit for the home.

The latest statement also follows the authority's warning in December of last year - at a time when bitcoin's price reached an all - time - high of around $ 20,000 - that investors must be extremely cautious in dealing with cryptocurrencies, which are not regulated by the agency.

Today, nearly 25 cents of every dollar spent by Americans are on products regulated by the agency.

In particular, commercial and sport fishing are regulated by the agency.

It carries contaminants not regulated by any agency, and there's evidence that the chlorine and fluoride causes more harm than good.

«Now MR is legal but regulated by an agency that has been proceeding very cautiously, with just one clinic licensed to perform the procedure.»

Unfortunately the word «natural» is not regulated by any agency, and thus can be used on any product.

Co-sleeping isn't regulated by any agencies, so therefore it is suspect.

Not exact matches

These companies are regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and various provincial agencies.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Further, there is no single approving agency and more than 500 trademarked «kosher» symbols used by different regulating bodies around the world, each with slightly different standards.

Stricter Regulations: Bottled water is regulated by the FDA, and tap water by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).

Therefore, their actions arguably substantially affect interstate commerce and may only be regulated by Congress as opposed to a state entity such as a local county agency.

As a result, in May 2016, Japanese lawmakers passed a bill that specified that all «virtual currency» exchanges must be regulated by the Financial Services Agency.

To run DOI's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, one of two agencies that regulates offshore drilling, Zinke chose Scott Angelle, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission who served on the board of directors of (and was paid $ 989,238 by) oil pipeline operator Sunoco Logistics.

Fidor is Germany's first Web 2.0 online bank and is regulated by the German Financial Supervisory Agency BaFin.

Instead, the Supreme Court has made clear that federal agencies, acting under the authority granted to them by Congress, can regulate arbitration procedures to protect statutory rights.

On top of new fees and taxes levied by state and local agencies on growers opting to join the regulated market, it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for growers like JD to bring their land up to code.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) writes investor protection rules and other rules regulating broker - dealers and banks in the United States municipal securities market, including tax - exempt and taxable municipal bonds, municipal notes, and other securities issued by states, cities, and counties or their agencies to help finance public projects or for other public policy purposes.

This problem today is engendered and sustained by virtually every institution responsible for the creation of the built environment: the real estate development industry; the construction industry; federal, state and local regulatory agencies; the rule - of - thumb manuals of transportation engineers; the lending policies of banks; the professions of architecture and planning; the patrons of architecture; and above all the zoning ordinances that regulate where and how buildings get built.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

Who benefits when the agency assigned by Congress to regulate television in the public interest instead regulates it in the interest of the broadcasters?

Regulatory agencies have a tendency to sink into lethargy as their funds prove inadequate to the job they are expected to do, or they turn out to be staffed by men drawn from the very industries they are ostensibly to regulate.

Address any legal obligations related to conduct, especially when it comes to regulated aspects of your business, while taking steps to ensure that any such restrictions comply with the latest mandates issued by regulatory agencies, such as the National Labor Relations Board.

Other gluten - free beer made with non-traditional beer - making grains like sorghum, millet, corn and rice are not regulated by the TTB because, again, they're not considered true beer under the agency's definition.

As one of the most highly regulated food industries in the United States, dairy must comply with regulations issued by multiple federal agencies, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Commerce, among other state and local regulatory bodies.

The agency interprets and enforces the rules enacted by Congress, which regulate the sale of alcoholic beverages.

The U.S. food processing sector is extensively regulated by state and federal agencies.

Yet I do think it's a problem that JO sweeps in and makes it all glamorous, fun, and financially sound when schools, even private ones, are pinching pennies, having to educate parents and students about healthy food, and oppressed by their regulating agencies who make the marginal food in the first place.

Promulgated by the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), the agency which administers the state's federal school lunch program, the «Texas School Nutrition Policy» regulates the time and place in which competitive foods and beverages may be sold and also sets nutrition standards for those items.

For starters, school nutrition and academics are separated institutionally, regulated by different federal agencies.

Dioxin, by far the most toxic of chemicals regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, is linked to cancer, birth defects, liver damage, skin diseases, immune system disorders and changes in endocrine regulation.

Other defense witnesses include people who are or have been employed by Cuomo's office, the state's economic development agency, Cuomo's budget division and the Public Service Commission, which regulates power plants such as the one built by Competitive Power Ventures, which employed Kelly, one of the defendants, and hired Percoco's wife.

Most recently, she served as Legislative Director for Council Member Rosie Mendez, where she was tasked with helping shape legislation and policy to address homelessness, improve health, regulate the recent spate of new construction, take on landlord harassment, and save taxpayer dollars by improving inefficiencies within city agencies.

The Broome County Industrial Development Agency is regulated by the state.

«Creating another layer of regulation through a state license issued by an agency [the state Labor Department] with no experience regulating the elevator industry is duplicative, serves only to confuse, and does not constitute sound public policy,» said the mayor's Albany legislative director, Sherif Soliman.

Several other panelists who will appear represent service providers that are regulated by the disabilities agency.

Among the proposals in her «Rent Justice for All» program are ending the preferential rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an apartment for less than the legal regulated rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal agency.

Ruling in a suit brought by Massachusetts over the regulation of car emissions, the court said that the EPA has the authority to regulate such climate - destabilizing greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide — something the agency had denied.

A known health hazard and contributor to acid rain, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is one of six air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Health information technologies such as smartphone - based ultrasound and electronic health records should be regulated according to the risk they present to patients, per a proposed strategy rolled out Thursday by three federal agencies.

Notably absent is a proposal adopted earlier this year by the U.S. House of Representatives that would have exempted many e-cigarette manufacturers from FDA's pre-market review process if their products are already on the market before the agency issues its upcoming «final rule» to regulate them.

The agency was tasked with picking 10 initial chemicals by December 2016 to evaluate and, if warranted, regulate.

Levels of ultrafine particulate matter in the atmosphere are neither monitored nor regulated by environmental agencies not only in Brazil but practically anywhere in the world, Artaxo stressed.

Scientists who receive grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not be trusted to «self - regulate» on matters involving a potential conflict of interest, suggests a letter released today by two Republican members of the House Science Committee.

«The exhaust contains gasses and large amounts of ultrafine particles that are essentially unregulated by the Environmental Protection Agency because the EPA regulates fine particles by weight, and these particles weigh so little,» she said.

Aldy says that the current effort by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate a power plant's production of carbon could be potentially more costly than his proposal.

A lack of rules regulating the registration of raw ivory and the licensing of importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers has allowed illicit stocks into Japan's domestic market, according to the report by the independent London - based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).

The Senate bill would also allow states to ask the EPA for permission to regulate a priority chemical while it is under review by the agency, although the request could lead to protracted legal challenges.

Although plastic debris is associated with some of the most persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the European Union, the debris is considered non-hazardous by policy makers.