Sentences with phrase «standards than the federal government»

Second, it could create a two - tiered domestic system in which California, the nation's largest automotive market, would have different emissions standards than the federal government.

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Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

States tend to allow fewer deductions and credits than the federal government does, but especially in states with state - level Earned Income Tax Credits, eliminating deductions and credits outright (perhaps except for a standard exemption, but even that could be hard to implement) would be a significant change, and potentially a tax hike on poor families.

Second, look for a seal from the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA), a trade organization whose safety standards are much higher than those issued by the federal government.

Mayor Byron Brown proclaimed Wednesday that Buffalo's water is «lead safe» after samples from more than 150 homes showed results below the federal government's standard.

Cuomo said there seems to be a different standard from the federal government when it comes to Puerto Rico than there was after storms hit Texas and Florida.

That is because California has often set standards more stringent than the federal government's — for example its decades - long efforts to rein in pollution from automobile exhaust, including being the first state to mandate catalytic converters in 1975.

Thus, WIPP's mission has been to demonstrate whether the federal government and its contractors, at the cost of unknown billions of dollars can: (1) safely operate WIPP to meet the «start clean, stay clean» standard; (2) safely transport plutonium - contaminated waste through more than 20 states without serious accidents or release of radioactive or hazardous contaminants; (3) meet commitments to clean up transuranic waste at about 20 DOE nuclear weapons sites; and (4) safely close, decontaminate, and decommission the WIPP site, beginning in 2030 or sooner.

Barely more than one third said it was false that the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards (it does not), just 15 percent said it was false that the federal government will receive detailed data on the test performance of individual students in participating states (it will not), and fewer than half said it was true that states and local school districts can decide which textbooks to use under Common Core (they can).

The line the federal government has walked in promoting the standards has been much finer than Duncan's comments indicate.

While the standards aren't perfect, they are vastly better than what they are replacing in most states [as judged by the federal government].

More than 40 states have now signed onto the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, which have been both celebrated as a tremendous advance and criticized as misguided and for bearing the heavy thumbprint of the federal government.

No less than 69 percent of the public think the federal government should set standards for the country and administer tests in math, science, and reading.

It has become particularly acute as states have switched to more difficult tests designed to align with the Common Core, academic standards adopted by more than 40 states and spurred in part by the federal government.

But Chad Alderman, a policy analyst at the consulting firm Bellwether Education Partners, argued the federal government was always clear about the possibility of getting a higher education board to sign off on alternative standards — even if that took no more than a letter of support without much in the way of policy justification.

It is perhaps an even more fundamental question than whether the federal government may constitutionally coerce standardization and testing generally, and with Common Core, specific standards and tests.

When states, rather than the federal government, lead the development and implementation of academic standards, there is more flexibility for local communities.

Our ideal policy would go even further in this direction, but it's a good start: The federal government would maintain performance standards, but offer more ways for schools to meet them than the current regimen of tests.

Graduated - Federal government allows borrowers to make lower monthly payments than the monthly payments made under the standard plan.

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The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feds.

There are 130 API standards referenced in more than 430 citations by government agencies, including Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Well, this is the same Federal government that can not spare a dime (or more than 0.25 FTE) for bringing up its temperature measurement sites (whose output help drive this whole bill) to its own standards, allowing errors and biases in the measurements 2 - 3 times larger than the historic warming signal we are trying to measure.

Overall, more than 130 API standards are referenced in more than 430 citations by government agencies, including the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as BSEE.

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And rather than having everybody creating their own set of standards (which can often lead to confusion and significant added costs) one of the roles of the Federal government is to help promote a common set of standards.

«What we are suing for is really a constitutional challenge in many respects,» said Sorochan, who maintains the federal government provides a lesser standard of care to veterans under the NVC than those given to other service men and women under the Pension Act.

Though the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulates mobile carnival rides, standards for amusement parks with permanent locations in a particular state are set by those states rather than the federal government.

The standards for holding the governmental entity itself liable is different than the standard for holding the individuals operating the prison liable (and additional 11th Amendment issues of substance and forum come into play that require suit to be brought in state rather than federal court on such a claim when the governmental entity owning the facility is a state government)(per the same case linked above):