Sentences with phrase «year moratorium while»

Not exact matches

There has been ample speculation about why the Senate decided to pack it in early on the evening of Monday's special session while the Assembly toiled into the wee hours of Tueday morning and then returned later Tuesday afternoon to pass, among other things, the NYC OTB bailout bill and a hydrofracking moratorium that had been passed by the Senate earlier in the year.

Last week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal data.

He told The Suffolk Times this week that he believes the Town Board should have enacted a development moratorium while it put together the Mattituck corridor study last year.

While Mr. Obama is pro-fracking and has promoted gas drilling in his State of the Union message, many New York politicians oppose fracking and the state has had a de facto five - year moratorium on drilling.

The group wants to see a moratorium on fracking for three to five years while more studies are conducted.

In late September the NIH announced — but had not put into effect as of press time — a one - year moratorium on all paid industry consulting while the agency reviews its internal ethics policies.

Should we call a five - year moratorium on progress while we assess what we're doing?

Please support Moratorium Bill SB3239 / HB4487: This legislation stops school (closure) actions for the school year 2012 - 2013 while school districts establish policies that improve academic performance at low - performing schools.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

While Korea's opening statement cited its many years of restraint and deference to the moratorium, there were 21 scofflaw killings of whales by Korean fishermen in 2011.

While interpretations of the proposal and its potential outcomes may vary slightly, on its face it will for all intents and purposes lift the commercial whaling moratorium for ten years, putting the great whales at the insufficient mercies of a few countries.