Sentences with phrase «years of inaction by»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The conclusion of the Court is that plaintiff's predecessor originally acquired a valid trade - mark in the word «Tabasco» as applied to pepper sauce, and that, by no action or inaction during the subsequent years, has plaintiff lost the resultant right to its exclusive use.

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.

It was complete inaction on the topic, after a year marked by the arrest of two sitting senators and one assemblyman, that led Cuomo to appoint the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in July.

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

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.

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.

Hindi initially voiced his frustration with the Bucks County SPCA and the Women's Humane Society in March 2013, and again in April 2014, citing specifically 102 years of alleged inaction against the Philadelphia Gun Club by the Bucks County SPCA, founded in 1912, and 99 years of alleged inaction by the Women's Humane Society, following the 1916 death of founder Carolyn Earle White.

Now today, 2018 is critical and the next couple of years as well are far above «truly critical» tipping point of no return — that «battle / argument» has already been lost with the most likely outcome being inaction, denial and ongoing minimisation by those with the only institutional political power to engender change leaving nothing much more and a reliance on a forlorn unrealistic impractical hope» alone.

Over the years, the more I learned, the more sceptical I became, I don't believe at this stage that the massive economic costs incurred by proposed anti-AGW policies can be justified, and that if it is proven to be a serious issue, then dealing with it is better deferred until economic growth and potential technological breakthroughs would make the cost more feasible, if and only if it had been demonstrated that (a) AGW were real; (b) the costs of inaction were enormous; and (c) the costs of action would bring commensurate benefits, e.g. would stop or long defer dangerous warming.

It is this spirit that has seen countries like Germany achieve a 59 % renewable energy peak last month, President Obama start to turn the tide on previous US inaction by launching a new Climate Action Plan that includes action to begin the phase down of coal power, and China's statement last week that it intends to usher in stronger emissions reductions in its next Five Year Plan, due in 2015.

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.

An audit of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Fiscal Year 2016 Nuclear Waste Fund financial statement, conducted by accounting firm KPMG for the DOE Office of Inspector General and released in December 2016, showed 38 lawsuits had been settled as a result of the DOE's partial breach of contract ensuing from inaction on Yucca Mountain, and 41 cases were resolved by final unappealable judgements.

What has been, at least temporarily, set aside by lawmakers is an eight - year extension of renewable energy production tax credits, tax credits for development of carbon capture and storage technologies, as well as a one - year extension of production tax credits for certain biofuels.As would be expected, the renewable energy industry has decried the inaction.

If we don't have a decision under the COP and continue these issues under the Subsidiary Bodies of the Convention (as proposed by developing countries) they will be forgotten and followed with very slow implementation, these issues need the status to be prioritized, otherwise we will be locked in to 8 more years of inaction.

Stepping into the void of inaction or deregulation by other levels of government, in recent years First Nations have banned proposed heavy oil pipelines from their territories, denied consent to... [more]

Helping victims of serious injuries or wrongful death caused by the inaction or negligence of another person has been our forte for years.

For years, we have been helping victims of serious injuries or wrongful death caused by the fault or inaction of another person.

For years, we have been representing victims of serious injuries or wrongful death caused by the error or inaction of another individual.

Remember, the LPP was a decision made after years of mounting inaction and repeated broken promises by Convocation.

By now [after almost two years of legislative inaction], the government's decision not to challenge the WSIAT decisions in court has taken a more sinister complexion — it looks like an attempt to take advantage of a peculiarity of administrative law to ensure that the unconstitutional bar to mental stress claims will continue to apply to all but the most well - resourced and determined injured workers....