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...marginal agricultural land, does require water, as does making electricity. There's a bigger problem - electric cars still remain few and far between, while there are already millions of U.S. vehicles on the road that can run on an ethanol blend. Creating the sort of infrastructure that can support electric cars on a mass scale won't be cheap, and it's not a cost that Campbell and his colleagues included in their study. "There's a lot more we have to look at on biomass," says Campbell...
Still, the ethanol industry's days may be numbered. Ethanol wouldn't exist but for government subsidies, yet in the 2007 energy bill, Congress ruled that to be eligible for support, corn ethanol has to emit 20% less climate pollution than gasoline. If you include the indirect land-use effects of ethanol - the increase in deforestation caused by using land to grow fuel - it's unlikely to hit that target. On May 5, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule that would take into account indirect land-use effects when judging just how green corn ethanol is. Unless...
...Owens says she devotes most of her time to the black community, instead of Girlspot parties, lesbian bars, or final clubs, and was able to find her own support network of queer women of color...
According to the results of a poll conducted last week of more than 1,700 Harvard undergraduates, nearly 62 percent of respondents support the official recognition of the Reserve Officer Training Corps as a fully supported student organization by the University—a move that would reverse a 40 year-old Harvard policy...
Official recognition for ROTC could help facilitate transfer of course credit for ROTC classes taken at MIT, allow financial support from Harvard for cross-registration, and mean the removal of language in the student handbook that says military and ROTC policies excluding openly gay people are “inconsistent with Harvard’s values...