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Coltura: Federal & state EV policy & incentives must target gasoline superusers to achieve carbon emissions goals

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—Janelle London, co-author of the report. Louisiana, Wyoming, and Mississippi are the states with the highest concentration of superusers, while Houston, Detroit, St. It’s more equitable as well as more efficient to give these drivers the biggest incentives to switch to EVs.

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Study: Crop relocation can help buffer US agriculture from climate change but southern states may face massive loss of productive land

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The wheat lands of the Great Plains see a gradual hollowing-out, while winter wheat moves up from the south along the Mississippi. The research applied a new approach to barley, corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, and wheat crops to estimate the economic potential of crop reallocation in the United States over the next 50 years.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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In its “Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan 2008,” the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force acknowledged that “ uncertainties remain in the ability to characterize the spatial and temporal dynamics of hypoxia and the biological, chemical, and physical properties that contribute to it. ”.