To wit: With nary a pause after the Supreme Court decision, Mr. Billenness and other members of the Free Burma Coalition, a national umbrella group, plan to begin a push this summer to get cities and states to pass new laws penalizing companies that do business with Myanmar, he said.
Addressing nearly every controversial issue under the energy and environment policy umbrella, Sanders' plan would outright ban offshore drilling, ban Arctic drilling, block natural gas exports, stop attempts to lift a decades-old ban on crude oil exports, support states trying to ban natural gas fracking, and ban mountaintop removal coal mining.
Representatives of several of the larger umbrella groups planning protests dismissed the idea of "cyberattacks" and said they had none planned.
It is Microsoft's umbrella software plans for the Internet -- far more than the new marketing push or new features on MSN -- that cause anxiety at America Online.
San Francisco real estate developer Carmel Partners, under the umbrella CP V Cumulus LLC, plans to build a nearly 2-million-square-foot development.
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"We are engaging union members in the political process while others are dropping out," the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s political director, Steve Rosenthal, said last week as the umbrella organization laid plans for Election 2002 at its annual national convention in Las Vegas.
"The only real problems of the day were created first and foremost by the fact that the police refused to give us a permit for the march," said Leslie Cagan, co-chairwoman of United for Peace and Justice, the umbrella group that planned the event.
Currently the company works with 30 in the area of auto, home and umbrella insurance and plans to add several more in the near future.
Gliding mammals, such as the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), are expected to be particularly sensitive to large non-forested gaps and therefore have been used as umbrella species in planning for landscape connectivity.
