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Backers of the resolution said Congressional action was overdue.
With carbon dioxide from airplanes accounting for about 3 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, Europe's legislators decided that action was overdue.
Pirc said investor action was overdue after accountants signed off banks' accounts months before the same banks nearly collapsed in the financial meltdown.
But backers of the provisions said that action was overdue on expanding the definition of those affected by legislation that originally was crafted to protect victims of crimes committed on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.
There was also a feeling that US action was overdue.
Democratic Assemblymen Rob Bonta of Oakland and David Chiu of San Francisco also said the Orlando mass shooting shows that action is overdue.
UNICEF Executive Director on Early childhood development global action is overdue (external link opens into new window) In Rwanda, education and health programmes provide children with a better start in life.
Many environmental advocates, however, said the E.P.A.'s action was long overdue, but added that it was only as a stopgap until Congress passed comprehensive climate change legislation.
Richard Socarides, a lawyer who served as an adviser to the Clinton administration on gay issues when the policy was passed into law, said the legal action was long overdue.
