Sentences with phrase «years of inaction on»

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

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

The Senate, true to form, sustained its 18th year of inaction on global warming since ratifying the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.

Not exact matches

Congress's inaction on guns over the past few years is not due to the unpopularity of gun control measures.

So for the past three years, dozens of Christians from GKI and HKBP have been gathering on Sundays to worship in a plaza near the country's national monument and presidential palace as a way to protest the local government's inaction.

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.

«Given the city's inaction and protracted 10 - year proposal, it is now time for the commission to examine steps to expeditiously close Rikers and to ensure that the constitutional rights of inmates and staff are protected,» a 70 - page report from the Commission on Correction said.

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.

«After many years of frustration resulting from the inaction and lack of a sense of urgency on the part of city agencies on the sidewalk issue, we turned to the State to ask for help, and to their credit they responded in a big way,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

«Their inaction is beyond shameful, coming on the heels of the arrest of two legislators, the jailing of two more and the resignation of a third — and that's just this year... The IDC's entire reason for being was to bring progressive legislation to the floor, but it never put up its own reform bill for a vote.»

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 a federal lawsuit alleging EPA violations between the environmental advocacy group Save the Sound and Westchester County approaching the two - year mark, officials at the nonprofit are growing increasingly impatient with alleged inaction on the part of several communities.

On the issue of replacing the Trident nuclear missile system, Sir Menzies insisted he did not have «sufficient evidence to make a judgment at this stage» but predicted a period of inaction because Tony Blair would not seek to pursue a divisive vote on a decision in his last year prime ministeOn the issue of replacing the Trident nuclear missile system, Sir Menzies insisted he did not have «sufficient evidence to make a judgment at this stage» but predicted a period of inaction because Tony Blair would not seek to pursue a divisive vote on a decision in his last year prime ministeon a decision in his last year prime minister.

While this study focuses on how tragic cardiac arrest might be when it strikes an athlete, Dr. Kudenchuk emphasizes that it also typifies the bystander inaction that occurs in hundreds of thousands of instances of others who fall victim to out - of - hospital cardiac arrest each year across the globe.

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.

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.

The Obama Administration has already signaled a strong willingness to regain U.S. leadership on the global stage in the treaty talks, reversing years of inaction.

Other major democracies (ones with stricter limits on taking campaign money from special interests; and ones in which the price of gas has been well over $ 5 / gallon for years) don't seem to have this problem of science blindness and deer - caught - in - the - headlights inaction.

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.

The next day headlines will celebrate the «stunning» reduction in GHG and Peter Kent will be quoted as saying that Canada has met half of its Copenhagen target (a 50 - something Mt drop would mean total emissions of around 680Mt), etc., neutralizing any criticism of Canada's inaction on climate change on a hot political year, with 7 provincial elections and, in all likelihood, a federal one.

The report, A Climate of Suffering: The Real Cost of Living with Inaction on Climate Change, called the past 15 years a» preview of life under unrestrained global warming».

Given that the United States and most other developed anions have for over twenty - five years failed to adequately respond to climate change because of alleged unacceptable costs to each nation and that due to the delay ghg emissions reductions now needed to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change are much steeper and costly than what would be required if these nations acted twenty five years ago, is it just for the United States and other developed nations to now defend further inaction on climate change on the basis of cost to it?

The rest of the world learned its lesson during the early years of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, when the U.S. first helped shape, but then failed to ratify, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol: American inaction is no excuse for global dithering.

It's An Inconvenient Truth meets Waiting for Guffman, and the result is funny, informative, and also gut - wrenching: when the characters visit New Orleans on the two - year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the true cost of inaction on climate is painted with such stark overtones that the film takes on an important new weight.

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.

The Costs of Inaction In public discussion, the climate - change skeptics have clearly been gaining ground over the past couple of years, even though the odds have been looking good lately that 2010 could be the warmest year on record.

But decades of relative government inattention and inaction on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tobacco control is almost certainly more to blame than recent government haste and inefficiency for the estimated 600 preventable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths each year from smoking.