Sentences with phrase «year of inaction»

In their posts, the four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution.

After years of inaction by the old Progressive Conservative government, it is refreshing to have a government that believes in climate change and has actually presented a policy to address it.

If incumbent Tea Party - aligned Rick Scott is reelected governor, it is expected to mean four more years of inaction on global warming.

The City Council is poised to criminalize «revenge porn» locally following years of inaction by state lawmakers — who have let a similar bill languish in Albany since 2014.

Cinzia Caggiano, who has campaigned for safer schools since her experiencing tragedy in 2008, urged Renzi to follow through with his plan after what she described as years of inaction by successive governments.

As we meet here today, the good news is that after too many years of inaction and denial, there is finally widespread recognition of the urgency of the challenge before us.

Peter A. Baynes, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Mayors said, «Governor Cuomo's creation of a team to examine how oppressive mandates are crippling local governments, including cities and villages, is a welcome relief from years of inaction.

Now after one full year of inactions and inhuman decisions we can not pretend anymore.

In the wake of years of inaction by the elected officials in the region and continuing unemployment and disinvestment in Poughkeepsie, a growing movement has been building in the Hudson Valley and across the state in support of Fair Elections so that New Yorkers can have a democractic system that elects officials that will be responsive to the needs of all communities.

Even this far out it seems certain the House will go GOP again in 2016, so having a climate - change - denying president will mean at least four more years of inaction bolstered by the smoke and mirrors of the noise machine.

Many environmental groups have applauded the scope of the EPA's efforts in the past year, saying they were necessary to overcome what they characterized as years of inaction under President George W. Bush.

For the rest of us, prepare for a couple intensely aggravating years of inaction on the biggest problem currently facing mankind.

Trustee Stephen Daday, chairman of the village «s legal committee, said that although the agreement had ambiguities, approving it would spur work after years of inaction.

The NYC Council is poised to criminalize «revenge porn» locally following years of inaction by state lawmakers — who have let a similar bill languish in Albany since 2014.

There is literally no point in countries signing up to this sham of a deal, which will lock the planet in to many more years of inaction.»

There remains a real chance that Harper could be re-elected, bringing with it another four years of inaction on climate change and cheerleading for the expansion of export pipelines and the tar sands.

The Cornucopia Institute says that after years of inaction by the USDA on the issue, it obtained aerial photographs in nine states of industrial - scale confinement facilities that fly in the face of the organic standards developed to protect the American people from factory produced animal products.

Every year of inaction serves to broaden and deepen those risks.

After years of inaction, plans in Arlington Heights for developing a 56 - acre dirt landfill off Nichols Road into a recreation site appear to be moving forward.

Cuomo said the focus on Western New York has been done to «make up for years of abandonment and years of inaction» by the state.

And New Yorkers have been begging for reform in the wake of scandal after scandal, many over the last four years of inaction.

Western New York, I believe we had a commitment to make up for years of abandonment and years of inaction.

After years of inaction, New York State has finally begun to reform the pension system, resulting in significant savings to taxpayers.

After years of inaction, local and state officials are acting to stem the flow of sewage overflows into the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek.

With every year of inaction the risks posed by climate change grow, according to a new report requested by Congress.

But «every five years of inaction... requires an extra gigaton of reductions,» notes BP's Hill.

After years of inaction and prompted by a 2011 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bird for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the BLM initiated sage grouse protection planning.

This will finally shine a spotlight on the toll of air pollution on health and life, after years of inaction, which have seen the government sued in the High Court over its failure to come up with a plan to radically improve the quality of the air we and our children breathe.

After more than a year of inaction, Boston educational and political leaders, led by Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, are moving toward developing a new student - assignment plan to replace the controversial system imposed by a federal - court order in the 1970's.

It may seem to lawmakers that, surviving six years of inaction, we have lost the urgency of the moment.

A standoff might just give us four years of inaction.

Now, after years of inaction, and in the face of public frustration over rising gas prices, the only energy proposal he's really promoting is more offshore drilling — a position he recently adopted that has become the centerpiece of his plan, and one that will not make a real dent in current gas prices or meet the long - term challenge of energy independence.

The Executive Secretariat of the UNFCCC and the developed countries seem to have been under the delusion that 3 minutes of silence amongst 20 years of inaction is enough.

What: Climate change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health (10 Nov).

Despite the years of inaction, and the rising and real threats of climate catastrophe, there is actually reason for hope.

According to the climate scientists a few more years of inaction will take us irrevocably past one or more of the catastrophic tipping points I have mentioned.

Leaving the work under the Paris Agreement that is already weak enough for the year 2020 leaves us with four years of inaction that will have irreversible consequences such as the disappearance of small island nations, threatening of agriculture and food security, displacement of frontline communities, health problems like never before.

Every year of inaction serves to broaden and deepen those risks.

21 years of inaction have passed.

Do we have the political will to act decisively — after 20 years of inaction and 8 years of denial?

50,000 of you have sent invitations urging the President - elect to show that after eight years of inaction, we are ready to work with other countries to stop climate change.

This came after 14 years of inaction by NHTSA, which had succumbed to pressure from the auto making industry and had failed to adopt a rollover resistance standard.