Sentences with phrase «science lobbyist»

And at least one veteran science lobbyist has urged organizers to make sure it's a march for science, not scientists.

«We thought that the issue had gone away,» says one science lobbyist about the NSF scandal.

That's led some science lobbyists to complain that physical science research has not gotten the attention it deserves.

Two weeks ago, when science lobbyists were given a 2 - page description of the draft legislation, committee staffers repeated the message that the science board supported the changes.

That's what House Democrats, science lobbyists, and officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) may want to ask themselves as they attempt to salvage the 5 - year, $ 82 - billion reauthorization to boost spending for research, education, and innovation at NSF and two other science agencies.

Science lobbyists had feared that in trying to come up with a compromise while controlling total spending, negotiators from the House and Senate would have to cut science funding.

That's what officials at U.S. science agencies and science lobbyists are saying this morning after learning the details of the weekend agreement between the White House and Congress on funding the government for the rest of 2011.

But in a year when many civilian agencies are facing big cuts, science lobbyists saw the STEM numbers as a sign that the Administration was very supportive of science education.

Science lobbyists and House Democrats have complained sharply about proposed changes to NSF's peer - review process and a 40 % reduction in authorized funding levels for the agency's social science research programs in the bill.

While science lobbyists are pleased at that acknowledgement of the importance of research funding, they say the report omits an explicit distinction that science lobbyists have been calling for in deciding what should be cut and what should be preserved.

Analysts expect science to do especially well, but science lobbyists insist that more science funding is needed.

But science lobbyists have grumbled that the panel has become highly partisan in recent years, stacked with conservative Republicans who don't necessarily believe that research spending is a high priority.

When President Barack Obama proposed a hefty 6.9 % cut to the U.S. military's basic research programs earlier this year, many academic science lobbyists winced.

Science lobbyists had hoped that the current Congress (the 113th) would extend the America COMPETES Act, which expired last year.

Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

Not that long ago, science lobbyists thought they were on a roll after Augustine chaired a 2005 National Academies» panel that came out with Rising Above the Gathering Storm.

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* May 15, 2007 - The Republican Conference names Tom Feeney - under investigation for his work with convicted lobbyist Republican Jack Abramoff — to replace Calvert as the senior Republican on the Space Subcommittee of the Science Committee.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara alleges LP Ciminelli retained an Albany - based lobbyist and consultant for SUNY's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, or CNSE, to help funnel state contracts their way.

For years, certain lobbyists and public relations types have been promoting the idea that the United States doesn't have enough workers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

The mining coalition made no official reply, but in mid-February, as the 90 - day waiting period began to wane, Henry Chajet, a Washington D.C. - based lawyer and lobbyist for the Mining Awareness Resource Group (MARG), a party in the court cases, sent a letter to at least four science journals warning them that they risked unspecified consequences if they published the study.

The changes — 0.2 %, 0.1 % and 0.4 %, respectively, for the three fields — are «miniscule» and «subject to sampling variation,» notes computer science professor, technical labor force expert, and statistician Norman Matloff, but they «certainly doesn't jibe with the industry lobbyists» claims of a desperate labor shortage.»

Although we've heard these worrisome warnings many times before from congressional friends of science, research leaders, and university lobbyists, Congress has always scraped up needed cash at the last minute in previous years.

The National Science Foundation gets a 7 % increase — better than lobbyists expected given the $ 3 billion boost it received in the stimulus.

Some executives and lobbyists representing science - based industry have argued that American workers lack the training or interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields needed to fill the hundreds of thousands of positions they claim are available.

Therefore, «it may behoove biomedical lobbyists to think twice before citing the cost of high - tech science as a rationale for pumping up NIH's budget.»

At Science Careers, we try to temper the scientist - shortage rhetoric often heard from policymakers and industry lobbyists.

However, that's often not enough to protect the science budget entirely from cost - conscious member states, and the European Union's R&D funds could be squeezed in political «horse trading,» says a research lobbyist in Belgium.

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Science Europe defines itself as new European lobbyist representing many national funding agencies and some performing organisations.

Rachel Notley said her party, if elected, would work with industry to re-establish energy and environmental standards in the province using «research - driven» best practices and a «science - based» approach as opposed to «the outcome of a lobbyist meeting on a golf course somewhere.»

Last month, the New York Times reported that Phil Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist working for the White House, edited scientific climate change reports to significantly exaggerate uncertainty about the science behind global warming.

The climate science also sure is subject to severe political pressures from varying lobbyist groups, first and foremost the oil an coal interests which are huge financial powerhouses especially in the US Senate — a body which in reality dictates the whole global «climate policy» or rather the absence of any such — serious climate politicans round the globe in reality have — as we now have seen — no chance at all against the denying forces and their huge media apparatus, as long as the public don't see some very serious consequences of climate change, fx.

Climate science is an area that exemplifies the importance of ensuring that policy makers — particularly Governments and their advisers, Non-Governmental Organisations and other lobbyists — understand the limits on what scientists can say and with what degree of confidence.

The team consisted of Cesar Conda, an adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and now a political consultant; Andrew Lundquist, the White House energy policy director, who is now an energy lobbyist; Kyle E. McSlarrow, the chairman of Dan Quayle's 2000 presidential campaign and now deputy secretary of energy; Robert C. McNally Jr., an energy and economic analyst who is now an investment banker; Karen Knutson, a deputy on energy policy and a former Republican Senate aide; and Marcus Peacock, an analyst on science and energy issues from the Office of Management and Budget.

How many more Katrina's or Iowa floods or petroleum price increases will we witness before we realize that our economic system must be synchronized with natural systems to reflect the laws of natural and physical sciences, and not the lobbyist ($ $ $) driven laws of a false economy?

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Under the pressure of complaints from external lobbyists about a recent paper co-authored by Dr Soon in the Science Bulletin and about other earlier research contracts most details of which had been divulged in releases of information to Greenpeace or its associated front groups over many years, the director of the Center for Astrophysics has announced that its Inspector - General will conduct an investigation into this affair for the Center.

The closest any of them have been able to get is two letters sent - by the Royal Society and by the US senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe - to that delicate flower ExxonMobil, asking that it cease funding lobbyists who deliberately distort climate science.

(Except that it does serve to illustrate the point that the switch from pure science to alarmism happened in the 1980s, before the lobbyists and mass media had started advocating a «precautionary principle».

Its one thing to realize that the same kind of campaign tobacco manufacturers were convicted for has been going on over global warming science, buts its another to say the lobbyists deserve all the blame.

There are many different reasons why citizens may be sceptical of aspects of climate science, certainly why they may be sceptical of knowledge claims which get exaggerated by media and lobbyists.

Starting now, climate - science deniers can babble all they want — Big Oil, Koch Brothers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lobbyists and extremist politicians — all those climate - denying Luddites can rant and rave all they want about their myopic ideologies, unprincipled obstructionism, underlying greed, and tout their made - up scientific reports.

Instead of looking at the misuse of data to make money for lobbyists (politics), the science community is being blamed for not reviewing their own work.

That's when fossil fuel industry lobbyists and executives started pouring more money into front groups and advocacy campaigns aimed at spreading doubt about climate science and blocking action to reduce emissions.

Lawyers that are paid oil lobbyists have edited Whitehouse climate science reports with a heavy hand.

This relationship between a lobbyist for one of the nation's largest utilities and an aggressive purveyor of attacks on climate science and policies warrants much deeper scrutiny than it has so far received.

According to the Lobbyists Registration System, Government of Canada, Morten Paulsen and Bryan Thomas of Fleishman - Hillard Canada Inc. were registered lobbyists for the Friends of Science SocietyLobbyists Registration System, Government of Canada, Morten Paulsen and Bryan Thomas of Fleishman - Hillard Canada Inc. were registered lobbyists for the Friends of Science Societylobbyists for the Friends of Science Society in 2006.

But Paulsen, who «has close Conservative ties», was not only registered as a lobbyist for Friends of Science, but also for «several petroleum companies including Conoco - Phillips Canada, and Kinder Morgan Canada Inc..

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

The term itself suggests policies devised and dictated by Washington, DC politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists and pressure groups — many of whom have no real knowledge of or hands - on experience with energy, economics, science, technology, business or job creation.