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 By Bridget Macdonald - MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report Wednesday questioning the link between agricultural biotechnology and crop yields in the United States. In addition to ruffling a few feathers, the report demonstrated that even in the data-driven world of science, semantics matter.

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BY MARJORIE KORN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied a waiver request made by the State of Texas to reduce by half the amount of ethanol blending mandated in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on Thursday. Thus the currently mandated 9 billion gallons [...]