Sentences with phrase «today by the advocacy group»

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

WASHINGTON, DC, June 28, 2006 (ENS)- The United States has five percent of the world's population and 30 percent of the world's automobiles, but the country contributes 45 percent of the world's automotive emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Environmental Defense.

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Washington DC — Wine Institute, the public policy advocacy group for California wineries, applauds today's announcement by the U.S. government requesting formal World Trade Organization (WTO) consultations with the Government of Canada to ensure that both imported and British Columbia (B.C.) wines have equal access to B.C. grocery store shelves.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Chandra M. Hayslett, Communications Director [email protected] 212-257-4350 New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Want Deal on New Teacher Evaluation System New Poll Shows Robust and Resilient Support; No Excuse Seen for Losing $ 300 million New York (Nov. 29, 2012)-- A new teacher evaluation system that would ensure that New York City received $ 300 million in additional State education funding enjoys overwhelming support among City voters in general and parents in particular, according to a new poll released today by StudentsFirstNY, the education reform advocacy group, and conducted by Anzalone Liszt Research.

President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to «restore scientific integrity to government decision - making» is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies of the Bush Administration.

«And it is in fact a fact that the polar ice caps are bigger today than they were before,» Cruz said in a video distributed by 350.org, an environmental advocacy group.

A report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., finds transgenes in seeds of many kinds of corn, canola, and soybeans in the United States.

The common academic - content standards that dozens of states are now adopting are better overall than 33 individual states» standards, according to an analysis released today by a Washington research - and - advocacy group.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

Those are key recommendations being published today in a new paper by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

Today, newly - formed education advocacy group TREE (Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence) hosted a presentation by Elaine Weiss of the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.

Two separate lists of scientists and economists were sent to EPA by the Heartland Institute, according to documents obtained by the environmental advocacy group Climate Investigations Center and shared today with E&E News.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 8, 2015)-- The National Academy of Sciences today released a study on diluted bitumen (or «dilbit»), a raw form of tar sands oil making its way across North America in increasing volumes, that supports alarm bells raised by NRDC and other advocacy groups over the last decade.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Congress today introduced bipartisan legislation in response to a groundbreaking undercover investigation by advocacy group Global Witness.

FBI agents misled officials and the public, violated their own policy manual, used poor judgment, and engaged in sloppy police work when they investigated certain left - leaning, high - profile, domestic advocacy groups in the years immediately following 9/11, the Justice Department announced today following a four - year - long internal investigation by the Office of the Inspector General.

WASHINGTON — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards announced today's submission of nearly 350,000 comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in support of the Affordable Care Act's birth control benefit generated by a coalition of women's health and advocacy groups including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NARAL Pro-Choice America, National Women's Law Center, CREDO and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

A new national campaign to promote the reauthorization of the federal Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) initiative was launched today by a group of nearly 50 advocacy organizations.