Sentences with phrase «states abandoned plans»

Congress and a dozen Midwest and Western states abandoned plans for such programs during the past three years.

California has been nearly alone in its efforts to curtail greenhouse gases, after attempts to pass federal climate legislation collapsed in Congress in 2010 and several states abandoned plans to pursue their own regulations.

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Officials discussing the proposed legislation have also revealed that the state is abandoning plans to issue its own virtual currency, which had been informally termed the «cryptoruble.»

Chen, an energetic 58 - year - old Hong Kong native, who immigrated to the United States in 1973, was named executive chairman and interim chief executive of Blackberry on Monday as the company unexpectedly abandoned a plan to sell itself.

June 13 — Manchester United seem set to abandon their plan to list the club on the Singapore stock exchange, preferring to do it in the Unite States instead, according to report.

Shortly after he took office in January, Panepinto reportedly lobbied the state Workers Compensation Board to abandon plans to alter or reduce reimbursement rates paid to doctors and other medical service providers.

Assembly member Richard Gottfried told WXXI in a written statement Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin's decision to abandon plans for Green Mountain Case system was a disappointment for that state.

The NY Post says the teachers union «broke» the governor, thanks to reports that he plans to abandon the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

State lawmakers have abandoned the idea of completing a state budget one week ahead of schedule, legislators were due home in their districts late Thursday without agreement on a new spending State lawmakers have abandoned the idea of completing a state budget one week ahead of schedule, legislators were due home in their districts late Thursday without agreement on a new spending state budget one week ahead of schedule, legislators were due home in their districts late Thursday without agreement on a new spending plan.

The audit said that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projects.»

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson yesterday hastily abandoned his call for state lawmakers to cut their salaries, but stuck to his plan to cut his own pay by 10 percent — or $ 17,900 — to dramatize the state's fiscal crisis.

The state Office of Mental Health plans to transfer some patients to Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse, abandoning others, and resulting in more than 140 lost jobs.

Creating the problem were several factors: including a formal environmental review process that needed completion after being abandoned by then - governor Eliot Spitzer seven years ago, and a series of carefully wrought but ultimately obtuse statements from the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, in charge of the projects, as well as its own expansion plan's, review.

Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich should abandon his $ 45 million plans to provide preschool for all of the state's 3 - and 4 - year - olds and health coverage for all uninsured children in Illinois, and instead focus on paying for the state's pension obligations, according to a report from the Chicago - based Civic Federation.

The Montgomery County, Md., school board last week abandoned plans to charge students for riding school buses after the board's lawyer warned that the policy could violate the state constitution.

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

It would please me to be able to suggest to you that there is, in fact, a grand plan to improve our public school system (rather than abandon it in favor of a hodgepodge of lower - performing alternatives), to reinvigorate the teaching profession, and to direct resources to the campuses and students where they are most needed, but that vision hasn't yet been articulated or embraced at the state level.

It proposes repealing the state personal property tax but abandons Gov. Scott Walker's plan for an income tax cut.

In most states it is a misdemeanor to abandon your pet without a long term plan for food, shelter and fresh water.

- parents spent on average $ 131 on toys to life games over the last six months - almost 80 percent of families considered this a good investment - two thirds are planning to invest further - 70 percent of parents in the U.S. are familiar with Interactive Gaming Toys - 41 percent own more than one franchise - 77 percent said it was definitely or probably worth the investment - only 7 percent of families have abandoned play altogether - within households currently playing toys to life games, 52 percent indicate that adults are among those that play - among Nintendo amiibo - playing households with children, 21 % of parents say that only they are playing these games - with other franchises, less then 10 percent of adults play in the household - 22 percent of total character playtime is spent playing with the figurines as toys and not with a video game console - 40 percent of parents state that that their 13 - 17 year olds continue to play with characters like toys or action figures

As part of a buyout of Texas utility TXU by private equity firms, TXU enters abandons plans for eight out of eleven proposed plants in the state.

In addition to the plants abandoned by PacifiCorp and Idaho Power Company, it is likely that other utilities around the United States have eliminated coal plants from their long - term planning rosters without public announcement.

A Global Witness investigation uncovered that just a few months later the state forest authority effectively legalised mahogany that had been illegally logged in Río Plátano, the country's largest protected area, as part of a plan to launder «abandoned» timber.

Now, a new report from The Investor states that Samsung has abandoned plans to include an in - display fingerprint scanner in the upcoming Galaxy S9.