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Global warming is already affecting gameplay for professional baseball. And that’s just going to continue in the future and that effect will get stronger, a billion-dollar organization can also start to put its mic towards advocating for mitigation measures. And I think that’s really important – a powerful sports organization coming out and saying, ‘ Hey, this is affecting one of the most important cultural touchstones in America. ’. – Justin Mankin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Butyl acrylate, in particular, is a chemical that was identified in the spill in East Palestine. So, we understand there are some known health effects and their established thresholds in terms of the parts per billion that the EPA feels are safe. – Michael Carroll	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m sure someone saw, and I’m sure that somebody let it slide, because, again, if you’re in compliance with a lot of the big-picture things, perhaps they figured, well, they can survive something…What’s the likelihood that you’re gonna have $40 billion in withdrawals all at one time? – John Sedunov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time, i was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn’t make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It’s been a phenomenal ride. – Gordon Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Bail reform and charitable bail funds are an easy scapegoat, all this focus on organizations that help low-income people for free … versus an industry that profits $ 2 billion a year from the two-tier system of justice that bail creates. – Camilo Ramirez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This lawsuit is an attempt by a multi-billion dollar company to make money while they force 45 million borrowers back into repayment – putting many at serious risk of financial harm. – The Department	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Literally one of the founders could come into this environment, download half a billion dollars’ worth of wallets onto a thumb drive and walk off with them, and there’d be no accounting for that whatsoever. – John Ray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November. – Lawrence Hogan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Willow is just the start based on what industry has planned, the total estimate for the amount of oil that could be accessible in the region around Willow is 7 or 8 billion barrels. – Jeremy Lieb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Twenty billion dollars is the equivalent of every penny Egypt has borrowed from the IMF since 2016, and it disappeared in weeks (last year). – Timothy Kaldas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Currently at Harbor City Capital, I manage a 1.5 billion fund, right?, and I know how to manage it well. I give record returns to anybody who watches this, they’ll understand. I’m giving, a 12% fixed yield income return a year, which nobody in the market’s giving four and we’re giving 12. We’re also giving up to 20 to 26% in IRR return on our investors’ capital. So if there’s something I know how to do, it’s manage dollars and grow them. – Friday Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Congress has shelled out more than $100 billion in support to Ukraine since last February, yet we have zero insight into exactly what this money is being spent on, the American people deserve to know exactly where their money is going. – Dan Bishop	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Climate change is intensifying many of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters. – Adam Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re still calculating the cost of that event, which was so late in the year, but it’s clearly a several billion-dollar event and will actually add to the total we already have of $165 billion, so the total of 2022 will actually exceed $165 once we add the Christmas, winter storm impacts on top of that number. – Adam Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back. – Nicholas Pinter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
> CompaniesGlencore PLCFollowHSBC Holdings PLCFollowMELBOURNE, Jan 5( Reuters) - International investors with $ 2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc( GLEN.L) to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.Glencore is one of the worlds largest producers and traders of the fossil fuel used in power generation and record prices of the commodity helped add some $ 10 billion to its earnings in the six months to June. read more Major institutional investors including Europes Legal and General Investment Management( LGIM) said in a joint statement they have cofiled a shareholder resolution that asks Glencore to reveal how its production and capital expenditure plans align with the Paris goals and the International Energy Agency Net Zero Emissions pathway.Having both invested in and engaged with Glencore over many years, a higher degree of transparency is necessary in order to clarify how the company’s exposure to thermal coal is aligned with the 1.5 C pathway and corresponds to its net zero commitment. – Dror Elkayam	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country. – Chip Roy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We asked for the $3.5 billion. We’re going to continue to ask Congress … especially Congressional Republicans … to help us with what’s going on at the border if they are indeed serious about doing that. – Jon Michael Raasch	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
No one in Republican leadership has called for an end to aid for Ukraine, people on the Republican side are saying, ‘Why do we have to pass a $40 billion package to send $8 billion to Ukraine?’. – Mike Turner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
In 2011, I became your governor, i had a $1.3 billion short fall, I had another $750 million off-balance debt sheet to the hospitals, I had an unemployment rate of 8.2%. – Derek Davis	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I had a $1.3 billion short fall, I had another $750 million off-balance debt sheet to the hospitals, I had an unemployment rate of 8.2%. – Paul LePage	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Independentanalysisshows that school districts nationwide plan to spend more than $27 billion on academic recovery, including more than $6 billion on summer learning and after-school programs and $3 billion on tutoring and coaching for reading and math; and an additional $30 billion on staffing, including hiring more educators, and providing professional development so that educators know how to best support their students’ recovery. – The Department	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I delivered a bipartisan investment in our law enforcement. A billion dollars for training, for recruiting, for making sure that we're shoring up pensions for those who risk their lives. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

Global warming is already affecting gameplay for professional baseball. And that’s just going to continue in the future and that effect will get stronger, a billion-dollar organization can also start to put its mic towards advocating for mitigation measures. And I think that’s really important – a powerful sports organization coming out and saying, ‘ Hey, this is affecting one of the most important cultural touchstones in America. ’.

– Justin Mankin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Butyl acrylate, in particular, is a chemical that was identified in the spill in East Palestine. So, we understand there are some known health effects and their established thresholds in terms of the parts per billion that the EPA feels are safe.

– Michael Carroll

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m sure someone saw, and I’m sure that somebody let it slide, because, again, if you’re in compliance with a lot of the big-picture things, perhaps they figured, well, they can survive something…What’s the likelihood that you’re gonna have $40 billion in withdrawals all at one time?

– John Sedunov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It sure is nice to be at the right place at the right time, i was very fortunate to get into the semiconductor industry in its infancy. And I had an opportunity to grow from the time where we couldn’t make a single silicon transistor to the time where we put 1.7 billion of them on one chip! It’s been a phenomenal ride.

– Gordon Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bail reform and charitable bail funds are an easy scapegoat, all this focus on organizations that help low-income people for free … versus an industry that profits $ 2 billion a year from the two-tier system of justice that bail creates.

– Camilo Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This lawsuit is an attempt by a multi-billion dollar company to make money while they force 45 million borrowers back into repayment – putting many at serious risk of financial harm.

– The Department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Literally one of the founders could come into this environment, download half a billion dollars’ worth of wallets onto a thumb drive and walk off with them, and there’d be no accounting for that whatsoever.

– John Ray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction. I'm in one of the bluest states in the country with a 70% progressive legislature, and I got them to cut taxes eight years in a row by $4.8 billion. And I had the biggest economic turnaround in America, i just don't think he [Donald Trump] happens to be our strongest nominee to win the election in November.

– Lawrence Hogan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Willow is just the start based on what industry has planned, the total estimate for the amount of oil that could be accessible in the region around Willow is 7 or 8 billion barrels.

– Jeremy Lieb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty billion dollars is the equivalent of every penny Egypt has borrowed from the IMF since 2016, and it disappeared in weeks (last year).

– Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Currently at Harbor City Capital, I manage a 1.5 billion fund, right?, and I know how to manage it well. I give record returns to anybody who watches this, they’ll understand. I’m giving, a 12% fixed yield income return a year, which nobody in the market’s giving four and we’re giving 12. We’re also giving up to 20 to 26% in IRR return on our investors’ capital. So if there’s something I know how to do, it’s manage dollars and grow them.

– Friday Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congress has shelled out more than $100 billion in support to Ukraine since last February, yet we have zero insight into exactly what this money is being spent on, the American people deserve to know exactly where their money is going.

– Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Climate change is intensifying many of these extremes that lead to billion-dollar disasters.

– Adam Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re still calculating the cost of that event, which was so late in the year, but it’s clearly a several billion-dollar event and will actually add to the total we already have of $165 billion, so the total of 2022 will actually exceed $165 once we add the Christmas, winter storm impacts on top of that number.

– Adam Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are behind the curve on this, the Europeans in the 1990s started doing this. They made a multi-billion-euro investment to draw levees back.

– Nicholas Pinter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

> CompaniesGlencore PLCFollowHSBC Holdings PLCFollowMELBOURNE, Jan 5( Reuters) - International investors with $ 2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc( GLEN.L) to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees.Glencore is one of the worlds largest producers and traders of the fossil fuel used in power generation and record prices of the commodity helped add some $ 10 billion to its earnings in the six months to June. read more Major institutional investors including Europes Legal and General Investment Management( LGIM) said in a joint statement they have cofiled a shareholder resolution that asks Glencore to reveal how its production and capital expenditure plans align with the Paris goals and the International Energy Agency Net Zero Emissions pathway.Having both invested in and engaged with Glencore over many years, a higher degree of transparency is necessary in order to clarify how the company’s exposure to thermal coal is aligned with the 1.5 C pathway and corresponds to its net zero commitment.

– Dror Elkayam

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

We had 18 Republicans, who joined with Democrats in the Senate, get on their fancy planes and go home, and we’re sitting here trying to do the work of the people, not spend money we don’t have, not drive up more inflation, not have 7,500 earmarks for $16 billion for pet leftist projects across this country.

– Chip Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We asked for the $3.5 billion. We’re going to continue to ask Congress … especially Congressional Republicans … to help us with what’s going on at the border if they are indeed serious about doing that.

– Jon Michael Raasch

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No one in Republican leadership has called for an end to aid for Ukraine, people on the Republican side are saying, ‘Why do we have to pass a $40 billion package to send $8 billion to Ukraine?’.

– Mike Turner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In 2011, I became your governor, i had a $1.3 billion short fall, I had another $750 million off-balance debt sheet to the hospitals, I had an unemployment rate of 8.2%.

– Derek Davis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I had a $1.3 billion short fall, I had another $750 million off-balance debt sheet to the hospitals, I had an unemployment rate of 8.2%.

– Paul LePage

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Independentanalysisshows that school districts nationwide plan to spend more than $27 billion on academic recovery, including more than $6 billion on summer learning and after-school programs and $3 billion on tutoring and coaching for reading and math; and an additional $30 billion on staffing, including hiring more educators, and providing professional development so that educators know how to best support their students’ recovery.

– The Department

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I delivered a bipartisan investment in our law enforcement. A billion dollars for training, for recruiting, for making sure that we're shoring up pensions for those who risk their lives.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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