Sentences with phrase «work at federal agencies»

«When you reduce the use of fossil energy in order to reduce carbon, you get a lot of what are known as co-benefits,» Janet McCabe, a senior law fellow at the Environmental Law and Policy Center who used to work at the federal agency and helped write the Clean Power Plan, told Earther.

I worked at a federal agency for two years after graduating from law school and often saw the same type of situation where now and then, career attorneys» recommendations were overridden by political directives from above.

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Stengel is joined on stage by Doug Ellenoff, a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financing who has been actively involved in working with federal government agencies as the rules are being rewritten, and Pelli Wang (on the right end of the couch), the venture director at SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform and early - stage VC fund.

A federal agency for labor practices offers long - awaited guidance to employers on social - media guidelines at work.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

The government forgives up to $ 17,500 of your federal student debt after you work at a low - income school or education service agency for five consecutive years.

As the voice of the flexible packaging industry, FPA works with regulators at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other U.S. regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration to share industry positions and minimize regulatory burden on the flexible packaging industry.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from Agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» he said.

«In this environment, anyone can ask about anything, but the fact is the longstanding practice of detailing staff from agencies to work in the Executive Chamber dates back over 50 years to at least the Rockefeller administration and extends to the White House and the federal Department of Justice,» Azzopardi said in a statement.

«And we're going to be working with our federal colleagues at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to understand the best way to do this and create a national model for how to respond to these effectively,» Graber says.

ALBANY, NY (08/05/2013)(readMedia)-- CSEA has filed federal lawsuits against the state Thruway Authority and Canal Corp. charging that last spring's layoff of union members working at the agencies was unconstitutional.

At the plenary on Wednesday, the Senate decried that ministers and heads of Federal Government's departments and agencies were allegedly frustrating legislative work on the budget proposals with their foreign trips and lack of cooperation with the lawmakers.

On how his fellowship has impacted his career, he said, «Since part of working for a state regulatory agency requires dealing with federal regulators and interpreting federal rules, I think having experience at EPA (as a fellow, then as an employee) was a big plus in the eyes of the people who hired me.

Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

Similar examples of the federal government at work range from the creation of an industry for producing natural gas from coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambiAgency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambiagency with outsized ambitions.

«We now have better information sharing between federal agencies and systems to track whether students and researchers have changed their fields of study,» says C. Stewart Verdery, outgoing assistant secretary for Border / Transportation Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security and one of the officials who worked on the extension.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

«We found that most federal agencies didn't even look at Asian American numbers — they've become the forgotten minority,» says Gazal Modhera, chair of the EEOC's Work Group.

Rohlfing made the comments as more than 60 leaders representing various fields of science, academia, federal agencies, and professional scientific societies gathered on 9 Sept. to begin working on a framework to guide scientific organizations on how best to take on sexual and gender - based harassment on campuses, in scientific labs, during field research, and at scientific meetings.

These professional societies also assist in identifying capable and visionary astronomers to meet the important challenges of working in short - and long - term positions at the federal agencies, particularly the NSF and NASA, where dedicated staff can have a significant effect on the progress of astronomy.

Fort Lee, Virginia About Blog The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is the Department of Defense (DoD) component that works directly with defense suppliers to help ensure that DoD, federal, and allied government supplies and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and meet all performance requirements.

Prior to joining the Texas Education Agency, Ms. Gelinas worked as a policy associate at the Alliance for Excellent Education, where she provided general leadership in policy efforts and authored or co-authored multiple briefs and papers relating to federal high school policy and teacher quality.

Based on insight from school districts, state education agencies, policymakers and education organizations, this policy framework guides states and districts in working together to create flexibility to support scaling personalized learning, including explorations of defining areas of flexibility at the state and federal policy level, the supports needed for district implementation of personalized, competency - based education and the roles of states and districts in this work.

Previously, Wassmer served as Vice President of Administration and Finance at the Millennium Challenge Corporation from 2010 - 2011, a federal agency that works with developing countries to reduce poverty through economic growth.

Encourage DOT agencies to work with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and other Hispanic Serving Institutions, and other organizations to establish student and entry - level internship programs, and sponsor Federal Employment Information Touchscreen computer kiosks at these institutions through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

The Environment team within the Office of Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance works across the spectrum of energy and environmental issues, coordinating across DOT's modes and with other Federal agencies to ensure that the environmental impacts of transportation policies are considered at all levels.

IF IT HAPPENS «Credit Repair Today, works for you» - Contact creditors, banks, credit bureaus - File a Police Report and keep a copy in your personal records - File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, which can be reached at www.consumer.gov/idthft or [phone] - Keep a record of all communication you make with these agencies, including each person you speak with and everything you send them.

You must work full - time (at least 30 hours a week) for a local, state, federal or tribal government organization or agency.

Any lawyer working full - time at any position for a city, county, state or federal government agency is eligible.

The majority of zoologists conducts research and teaches at colleges and universities, while others work for federal agencies that have a concern for wildlife.

The Fund for Animals asked New York State and county health agencies to stop fox hunting when several hounds at one kennel came down with leishmaniasis; newspapers used the press releases from the group, even though the Masters of Foxhounds Association had already halted the hunts, put other control measures in place, and was working with federal government agencies to determine the spread of the disease.

Zoologists often work for federal agencies or as professors at colleges and universities where they teach about the research they have conducted.

Another meteorologist, who asked not to be identified because she works for a federal agency, added a vote for Andrea Thompson of Climate Central, in large part for her Twitter feed at @AndreaTWeather.

Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Service Program, a Climate Service Office, a Climate Service Advisory Committee, and a Summer Institutes Program at the Regional Climate Centers for interaction with and training of students and educators on weather and climate sciences; (2) operate the Climate Service Program; (3) maintain a network of six Regional Climate Centers to work cooperatively with the State Climate Offices on data collection and exchange, research support, and state and local adaptation and response planning on climate; (4) maintain a network of offices as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program; (5) ensure that the core functions and missions of the National Weather Service, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other programs within NOAA are not diminished or neglected by the establishment of the Climate Service Program or the duties imposed on such offices or programs; (6) report to Congress on the need for climate services; (7) prepare a plan for creating a Climate Service Program in NOAA and delivering climate products and services to NOAA users and stakeholders; and (8) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of federal climate service products and links to agencies providing climate services.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

The intent for the program's three - person team, all of whom previously worked at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University, is to continue science, outreach, and advocacy work on climate change but without the limitations that come with a federal job, like working on agency priorities, managing a big lab, or avoiding political activities during work.

By June 2001, Piltz had been a senior associate at the Coordination Office for the US Global Change Research Program for six years, responsible for editing and producing scientific reports written by federal climate scientists scattered over about a dozen agencies working on the problem.

Prior to joining JMBM, Matthew worked for five years as an appellate attorney in the Environment & Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented federal agencies in the federal courts of appeals; for four years as an attorney at Paul Hastings, where he advised and represented corporate clients in environmental and real estate matters; for two years as a law clerk to the Honorable Consuelo M. Callahan on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and for two years as a supervising attorney and lecturer at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic, where he taught students the practice of law and represented grass - roots and national organizations in environmental litigation and policy matters.

Speaking from personal experience working for the federal government I used all of my managers directly over me as a scapegoat, and it got the attention of headquarters to get them to point at each other, and with a new attorney in the agency (and president) they were willing to speak to say it wasn't the employee, but management.

Following series of complains from the FBI and other Security agencies from Asia, Europe, Oceania, and United States of America respectively against the Federal Government of Nigeria for the rate of corruption and scam activities going on in these country, The united nation deems it necessary to look in to this trend and this was discussed upon during the last U.N. meetings held at Abuja Nigeria in which a decision was reached to compensate noted victims of this operation, and we have been working with the (FBI & MPS) over this ugly act since then with U.N delegate there in Nigeria.

The process of applying for a federal position on USAJOBS can sometimes be a bit daunting, from understanding the terms used at various hiring agencies to knowing exactly how the application process works; it can be very different from agency to agency and sometimes only slight changes can affect how you submit your resume and application.

When I went back to work at The Resume Place, Inc. we were flooded with phone calls and emails asking how people could get a federal job with FEMA, CIA, NSA, DHS, CDC, any defense agency where they could contribute to the security of America.

Most economists are recruited by government agencies working at local, state or federal level.

He began this work at an agency specializing in Federal Government resume writing, where he received his certifications in federal resume writing, federal career training and as career coFederal Government resume writing, where he received his certifications in federal resume writing, federal career training and as career cofederal resume writing, federal career training and as career cofederal career training and as career coaching.

This can be seen at the program level in collaboration across home visiting models; at the state level in which multiple agencies work together to implement the grant; and at the federal level in which grantees work across state lines to identify best practices and provide communities of support.

Fort Lee, Virginia About Blog The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is the Department of Defense (DoD) component that works directly with defense suppliers to help ensure that DoD, federal, and allied government supplies and services are delivered on time, at projected cost, and meet all performance requirements.