When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard in November 2012, it examined a wide variety of evidence, including modeling of the impact that a waiver would have on ethanol use, corn prices, and food prices.
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A portrait of Fra ' Girolamo Savonarola , the Mad Monk from Ferrara , by his follower Fra ' Bartolomeo , now in the Museo di San Marco.Fra ' Girolamo Savonarola ( 1452â1498 ) was a Dominican friar and religious fundamentalist from Ferrara who moved his ministry to San Marco in Florence in 1490 ( he actually had first preached here in the 1480s , but ...