Sentences with phrase «tougher federal standards»

While many schools adopted similar tactics to keep up with tougher federal standards, charters say their small size gives them added flexibility.

The overhaul comes amid national calls for school lunch reform, though Congress this week blocked many of the tougher federal standards that had been proposed for 2012.

Nonetheless, Chrysler became the first major automaker to meet the ILEV standards, the toughest federal standard.

Not exact matches

«Just weeks after President Donald Trump signaled he's ready to roll back tough federal vehicle fuel standards, California on Friday affirmed that it won't budge an inch on its own tough standards,» the Detroit Free Press» Brent Snaveley reported.

Crapo, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, emphasized that the Federal Reserve would still have the authority to apply tougher standards for banks with between $ 100 billion and $ 250 billion in assets.

... last week Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced tougher new standards for the ground beef that will be used in the National School Lunch Program, among other federal food programs.

Scott - Childress's resolution also takes a shot at U.S. Rep. John Faso's vote in favor of federal concealed carry «reciprocity» legislation that would allow gun owners from states with lax gun laws to legally carry firearms in states like New York with much tougher standards for issuing concealed carry permits.

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The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

During the 1994 reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which ultimately forced the states to begin developing their accountability systems, Shanker was a staunch proponent of tough standards, and penned a pivotal article blasting a proposal to water down the bill.

The state's education board said their improvements «impressed» federal officials, but the Department of Education insisted on tougher education standards.

Washington schools will be able to sidestep some of the toughest standards and punishments in the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The agency is already expected to render a decision by the end of June on whether or not to grant California a waiver so it can set emissions standards for automobiles that are tougher than the federal standards.

As expected, the President advocated carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new and existing coal - fired power plants, tough new energy efficiency standards for homes and appliances, and federal support for private renewable energy investment on public lands.

It's been a tough week for corn ethanol producers and supporters of the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Because the only statewide clean air laws that already existed were in California, and they were more stringent than the new federal legislation, the federal act gave waiver authority to California, allowing it to adopt tougher standards than those set nationally.

One of the studies found that 2025 emissions could be reduced by as much as 4.5 GtCO2e through a variety of actions available to local governments and businesses, such as aggressive replacement of coal - fired energy production with clean energy sources and the implementation of policies like the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard and tougher vehicular fuel standards regardless of whether the federal government pursues them or not.

California traditionally has had special authority under the Clean Air Act to set limits on air pollutants that are tougher than federal standards.

Also: there's a tough new standard for handling federal data come January 1st in the form of NIST's 800 - 171 standard.

At those prices, homebuyers would need an income of at least $ 100,000 in order to satisfy the lending standards for gross debt service ratios as well as tougher mortgage qualification rules introduced by federal regulators in January, Hildebrand found.