Sentences with phrase «than a dozen federal»

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agency.

Since 2012, the government has closed or consolidated more than a dozen federal libraries at Parks Canada, Environment Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration and Canadian Heritage (see sidebar).

More than a dozen federal agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey, the Interior Department and the Department of Energy, conduct climate research.

More than a dozen federal departments and agencies support microbiome research today, and the magnitude of investment has recently grown: A 2015 report released by the National Science and Technology Council noted that annual federal investment into microbiome research tripled over fiscal years 2012 — 2014, with more than $ 922 million invested during this three - year period.

Dan has also been a tireless advocate for plant science by serving on more than a dozen federal grant panels.

More than a dozen federal class action lawsuits have been filed seeking damages from the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for errors in grading the PRAXIS Principles of Learning and Teaching Grade 7 - 12 exam required for entry - level classroom certification in many states.

In addition, this book showcases more than a dozen federal resume samples to demonstrate which components stand out best to HR specialists and hiring supervisors.

(Bloomberg)-- More than a dozen federal agencies agreed to slash the time needed for environmental reviews and permitting on major infrastructure projects, a cornerstone of President Donald Trump's infrastructure plan.

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Heritage Action and more than a dozen other organizations said attempts to subsidize extra-pricy customers with federal tax dollars or restore «cost - sharing» payments that...

Mike Fratantoni, MBA's vice president of research and economics, said the index dropped to its lowest «in more than a dozen years... as interest rates increased going into today's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.»

The federal government is warning parents to think twice before carrying infants around in cozy over-the-shoulder slings that have been deadly for more than a dozen babies.

«Since 1994, white prospective parents have filed, and largely won, more than two dozen discrimination lawsuits, according to state and federal court records.»

The newly elected NYC Council speaker, Corey Johnson, accused New York City police officers and federal law enforcement agents of acting violently during the protest at which the two council members and more than a dozen other demonstrators were arrested.

According to the newspaper, federal agents have already interviewed several of more than two dozen recent hires, including former aides to President Obama, who Cuomo employed shortly after the 2016 elections.

Governors in more than a dozen states, too, have said they oppose having refugees settle in their states, though their power is limited when it comes to federal immigration policy.

But more than a dozen advocacy organizations — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York - based good government groups — sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank - and - file employees for seven years.

Prosecutors played more than two dozen phone conversations Tuesday at the federal trial of Adam Skelos and his father, Sen. Dean Skelos in Manhattan.

According to the newspaper, federal agents already have interviewed several of more than two dozen recent hires, including former Obama administration aides whom Cuomo employed shortly after the 2016 elections.

According to a recent filing in the federal case, prosecutors have sought records from more than a dozen individuals, companies and campaign accounts that were not named in a 2016 indictment that alleged key officials and developers were involved in rigging bids for some of the state's biggest projects.

Since 2012, the firm has worked for more than a half dozen Florida Republican congressional candidates, earning more than $ 1.8 million from those campaigns, including U.S. Reps. David Jolly and Gus Bilirakis, federal campaign finance reports show.

AG Eric Schneiderman joined more than a dozen state attorneys general in sending a letter to Trump calling for him to ignore «misguided advice» and continue federal support for the Clean Power Plan

Gov. Andrew Cuomo renewed his call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured.

More than a dozen counties impacted by flooding and tornadoes in June and July should be made eligible for federal disaster relief, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced.

More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general took legal action Thursday seeking to preserve billions of dollars in federal subsidy payments for insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act after President Donald Trump threatened to halt the funding.

Democrats in New York and more than two dozen states have crafted bills that would require presidential candidates to release their federal returns in order to appear on that state's ballot.

More than two dozen Republican state lawmakers are asking federal lawmakers to loosen Wisconsin's strict water pollution standards.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has renewed a call for federal gun control measures after a shooting in San Bernardino, California left at least 14 dead and more than a dozen others injured Wednesday.

More than a dozen agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, joined by investigators from the office of Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, arrived at Soundview's offices on White Plains Road shortly before 7 a.m., when the first employees arrived to open the doors for the day.

ELIZABETHTOWN — Ahead of next the general election, more than a dozen state, local and federal representatives have endorsed Essex County Judge Richard Meyer and Essex County Clerk Joseph Provoncha.

The Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.

«Even satisfactory national standards must extinguish federalism's creativity: At any time, it is more likely there will be half a dozen innovative governors than one creative federal education bureaucracy.

Rick Perry's imminent entry into the 2012 GOP presidential race suggests that, for the second time in less than a dozen years, we could see a Texas governor try to make the federal role in education conform to his own preconceptions and lessons learned in Austin.

New Orleans is in the early stages of a construction spree both to build and renovate dozens of schools, and recently got news of an eye - popping settlement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, under which the federal government is providing more than $federal government is providing more than $ 1.8...

More than 1500 federally supported teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies, with new sites added regularly.

What followed, however, was a systematic rebutting of the spending plan by Republican members who argued that the administration's proposal to ax education funding by more than $ 9 billion and eliminate dozens of federal education programs would undermine the most underserved and disadvantaged students in their state.

In addition to scholarly work, he has served as expert witness or special master in more than three dozen class action civil rights cases, on school desegregation, housing discrimination and other issues, and as consultant to many school districts, federal, state and local governments, civil rights groups and teachers organizations.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS in New Hampshire are preparing to charge more than a dozen current and former American Honda Motor Co. executives with accepting bribes from dealers in exchange for franchises and hot - selling Honda models from 1986 through 1991.

Credit unions come in all sizes, from giants like Navy Federal, with more than six million members and nearly 300 branches, to local ones that count their membership in the dozens.

There have been more than two dozen lawsuits in federal court against Equifax.

And have already been more than two dozen lawsuits in federal court against Equifax.

Speaking in a television interview with BNN, Mr. Carney issued his third stern warning on the issue in less than a week, underscoring how concerned the central bank and the federal government have become about the fact that Canadians» debt - to - income ratio is now higher than Americans» for the first time in a dozen years.

Richard Syron, CEO and Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation — or «Freddie Mac» — says «more than a dozen years of sustained growth in housing prices have turned many middle class homeowners into millionaires; put countless children through college; and made the family home the most valuable egg in the American nest».

The Food and Drug Administration, noting that the detected concentrations were dozens of times lower than federal limits, strongly disagreed.

PRG's leader is attorney and veteran Democrat official George Frampton held two important sub-cabinet offices in the Clinton administration and more than a dozen other federal assignments.

Saying the country's grid would remain «controllable,» the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) urged states to approve more than a dozen new coal and gas plants and transmission upgrades over the next several years.

An Oregon judge ruled earlier this month that a complaint filed by more than a dozen young plaintiffs against the federal government — referred to by advocates as «the most important lawsuit on the planet right now» — can go to trial.

Among the 40 or so non-city-leaders were resilience - focused representatives of various federal agencies (including the alphabet soup of FEMA, HUD, DOE, EPA, and NIST), along with experts from more than a dozen leading organizations whose work touches on resilience: the Urban Land Institute, World Resources Institute, Trust for Public Land, Rocky Mountain Institute, The Clinton Foundation, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, STAR Communities, Global Green, and yours truly from the Resilient Design Institute.

Indeed, only four out of more than two dozen applications for new nuclear power plants have begun construction after receiving a federal license to do so.

For the formal announcement, Pruitt was introduced by NADA's President and CEO Peter Welch, who praised the administrator for «[spearheading] over two dozen significant regulatory reforms worth over one billion dollars in savings in his first year at EPA» and «issuing more deregulatory actions than any other federal agency under the Trump administration.»

Earth Day present for Coachella Valley habitat The federal government has approved a $ 6 million grant that will finance the purchase of hundreds of acres of new land for the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, an incredible victory for the more than two dozen endangered and protected species who live in the critical habitat in Southern California.