Sentences with phrase «weak laws»

Because of weak laws, we continue to use ten of thousands of chemicals in everyday products that have been linked to illness and disease, even though green chemistry is providing safe alternatives.
Those in places with strong competitive food laws packed on fewer pounds between 5th and 8th grade than those in states with weak laws or no laws at all.
Puppy mills continue to exist because of consumer demand, as well as weak laws that allow these operations to remain in business.
Please take a moment to speak out against puppy mills, that only exist because of consumer demand, as well as weak laws that allow these operations to remain in business.
Russia leads in cyber crime world, hackers citing weak law enforcement for online crimes, Reuters
States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.
• Baby Milk Action's campaign of solidarity with partners in the Philippines, where Nestlé is leading the industry attempt to replace strong regulations successfully defended in 2007 with its own weak law.
Less than a year later, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) information blackout further weakened the already weak law.
With him gone, we are left to rely on state watchdogs — entities that are too often limited by weak laws or controlled by those whom the watchdogs are supposed to be watching.
Researchers will present the abstracts, «Underuse of Proper Child Restraints in Taxis: Are Weak Laws Putting Children in Danger?»
A Sun Sentinel investigation found that several charter school operators exploited Florida's weak laws overseeing charter schools, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money to open charter schools that closed within months.
Not much, according to a new exposé on Florida charter schools, this one done by the Sun - Sentinel, with the headline: «Forida's Charter Schools UNSUPERVISED — Taxpayers, students lose when school operators exploit weak laws
EIA revealed the details and irregularities of oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon owned by Grupo Melka and Grupo Romero in the investigative report, Deforestation by Definition, yet weak laws and enforcement allows for continued violations.
Dog truck interceptions in Tianjin and Qinhuangdao highlight routine flouting of law by traders and weak law enforcement by police
The findings, they argue, show a correlation that indicates that gun laws work: «States with strong gun safety laws have fewer guns deaths per capita than states with weak laws
Nestlé is leading an industry attempt to replace the Philippines regulations with its own weak law, which will mean (amongst other things) that the clear warnings will go.
Instead, the politicians in Tallahassee have pushed to allow open carry and to weaken penalties for those who violate the state's already weak laws.
«The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our «Weak Laws» Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,» Trump tweeted.
The Case for Banning Payday Lending: Snapshots from Four Key States (June 2013) This report outlines the battles against the payday lending industry in states with strong usury cap protections, such as New York and North Carolina, and in states like California and Illinois with weaker laws that allow payday lenders to charge triple - digit APR loans that trap people in a cycle of debt.
A while back he ordered a survey of bribery law, and now he has sent the results to NABC members with a recommendation that they press for strong legislation in states that either have no laws against bribery in sport, or weak laws.
Nestlé is leading the campaign for the weaker law to be adopted.
Six states had strict laws restricting the sale of so - called competitive foods — snacks and drinks sold in vending machines, school stores and during fundraising projects, which compete with school - served meals; seven states had weak laws; and 27 states had no laws governing competitive foods in middle schools.
Nestlé and its partners are pushing for a new, weak law to be introduced, which will allow them to advertise milks for use from 6 months of age (with the same branding as milks for use from birth) and target mothers directly.
Democrats have also been resistant to substantive ethics reform efforts in recent years, passing a weak law last year that barely limits who politicians can take money from.
President Donald Trump tweeted about the caravan claiming, «the big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our «Weak Laws» Border, had better be stopped before it gets there.»
ALBANY — When the siblings making up the well - known classical piano ensemble The 5 Browns were looking into bringing sexual abuse charges against their father, they briefly considered New York before learning the state's weak laws wouldn't work.
When the siblings making up the well - known classical piano ensemble The 5 Browns were looking into bringing sexual abuse charges against their father, they briefly considered New York before learning the state's weak laws wouldn't work.
«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» says the report, which was released today at 6:05 p.m. by the Cuomo - appointed Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption.
«Our investigation thus far reveals a pay - to - play political culture driven by large checks, anemic enforcement of the weak laws we have on the books, and loopholes and workarounds that make those laws weaker still,» the executive summary says.
Police cuts could lead to weaker law and order on the streets, Ed Miliband has warned as he called on the Government to «learn from the riots».
Agus Sari — chief executive of the Belantara Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on environmental conservation and rehabilitation in Jakarta — says that weak law enforcement is a major challenge.
According to Zaridze, the Russian government looks likely to succumb to pressure from industry and adopt a weaker law which will give the tobacco companies more freedom to advertise.
For his part, Alibaba's billionaire founder Jack Ma says that China's weak laws are part of the problem: the Chinese government's preferential policies and regulations to restrict market access by foreign companies and the lack of sophisticated IP protection give Chinese companies a home advantage to create copies.
States where a greater fraction of teachers were covered by a union contract in 1987 were much less likely to pass a charter law in the 1990s, more likely to pass a law later (if at all), and more likely to pass a weaker law.
Weak laws are the biggest culprit, followed by operators who are chummy with authorizers, followed by inertia.
Then, the agency must ensure that the private schools receiving voucher funds are compliant with what is widely regarded as a weak law.
But thanks to weak laws and a lack of capacity to ensure compliance, anyone who opens a school in their home may be able to get public money — and face little in the way of accountability.
In the UK we have powerful organisations who look out for the welfare of animals and guard against abuse and exploitation - but we have weak laws, full of loopholes that makes their job very difficult and allows so many to get away with - literally - murder.
Rather than comply with more humane standards, many Virginia puppy millers decided to move their operations to states with weaker laws and lax enforcement.
It's shocking to many that these places are even allowed to exist, but due to weak laws and
It's shocking to many that these places are even allowed to exist, but due to weak laws and poor enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act — which only requires minimum standards of care to begin with — puppy mills are incredibly difficult to shut down.
Kentucky has the weakest laws in the country for animals.
Or if you're into tossing coins, it means that the probability of the average number of heads in a long sequence of tosses differing significantly from one half gets smaller and smaller (towards zero) as the length of the sequence of tosses increases [strictly, that last statement was closer to a statement of the weak law of large numbers, but we can leave the distinction between the two laws for another day]
Importantly, this agency was also expected to address the underlying causes of Indonesia's high deforestation rates — a lack of coordination, weak law enforcement, unclear spatial planning and a bad forest governing system.
Our federal toxic chemicals policy was a weak law when it first passed in 1976, and because it hasn't been updated since — unlike all other major environmental legislation — it's still weak today.
But the patchwork nature of Canadian securities regulation, combined with a lack of resources and weak laws, have doomed previous efforts at increasing enforcement.
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