Sentences with phrase «voluntary industry efforts»

Several voluntary industry efforts to address these sources are underway, including EPA's plans to expand on the successful Natural Gas STAR Program by launching a new partnership in collaboration with key stakeholders later in 2015.

and voluntary industry efforts like the Disney junk food ad ban, I've also acknowledged the weakness of the former and the frequent corporate abuses of voluntary schemes like the latter.

Not exact matches

The beverage industry's voluntary commitment to make calories more visible and useful to consumers supports First Lady Michelle Obama's efforts to help families make informed choices as part of an active, healthy lifestyle.

By working to change behavior within these communities, the initiative aims to help reduce beverage calories consumed per person nationally by 20 percent by 2025 — the single - largest voluntary effort by an industry to combat obesity.

This is the single - largest voluntary effort by an industry to help fight obesity.

The proposed voluntary principles are designed to encourage stronger and more meaningful self - regulation by the food industry and to support parents» efforts to get their kids to eat healthier foods.

And many of them gladly paid lip service to voluntary reform efforts such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a program created in 2002 to prevent corruption in resource - rich states.

Among the new voluntary efforts by pharmaceutical companies to post clinical trial data, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, one of the trade groups behind last week's proposal, will recommend that its members post trial results on a World Health Organization (WHO) global trials database that WHO hopes to establish in July.

As part of our effort to work with industry leaders on best practices, PIJAC and small animal care experts launched Small Animal Care voluntary standards.

In contrast, efforts to reduce vehicle oil consumption were put in the deep freeze from the Reagan administration until the end of the George W. Bush administration and the approach to CO2 was limited to calls for voluntary actions — calls that went unneeded by the auto industry.

As some groups push for additional EPA and Bureau of Land Management methane rules, claiming that voluntary efforts to reduce emissions haven't worked, it's clear that a combination of industry actions in concert with existing regulation have worked — and that additional regulation isn't needed.

There appears to be no appetite in the General Assembly for making the RPS mandatory, and efforts to improve the voluntary goals have repeatedly failed in the face of utility or industry opposition.