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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Lena Baker. Lena Baker (June 8, 1900 â March 5, 1945) was an African American maid in Cuthbert, Georgia who was convicted of capital murder of her white employer, Ernest Knight. She was executed by the state of Georgia in 1945. Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by electrocution.