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OTHER VIEW: Gas tax replacement study raises more questions

McAlester News-Capital 21 Sep 2023
So, how do you get electric vehicles to pay their fair share of highway expenses? That’s what Oklahoma Department of Transportation wants to know with its Fair Miles Oklahoma study ... ODOT is spending a big chunk of change, $3.9 million, on a pilot project and study ... All of those other studies should be considered for ideas.
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EDITORIAL: Gas tax replacement study raises more questions

Enid News & Eagle 21 Sep 2023
So, how do you get electric vehicles to pay their fair share of highway expenses? That’s what Oklahoma Department of Transportation wants to know with its Fair Miles Oklahoma study ... ODOT is spending a big chunk of change, $3.9 million, on a pilot project and study ... All of those other studies should be considered for ideas.
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Study: Wildfire smoke is reversing years of US air quality progress

Grist 21 Sep 2023
A new study published in Nature found that since 2016, wildfire smoke has undone 25 percent of air quality improvements achieved since 2000 ... But in some parts of the country where we’re headed in that direction,” said Marshall Burke, the study’s lead author and professor of environmental policy at Stanford University.
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Educators say student misconduct has increased − but progressive reforms or harsher punishments alone won't ...

Caledonian Record 21 Sep 2023
Such violence at school disrupts teaching and learning and has elicited calls to reform school discipline policies. As a policy researcher who studies school safety and discipline, I have seen two camps form with polarized and politicized views on school discipline ... Policy advocates have claimed discipline reform has contributed to school shootings.
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Three main missions must be completed to develop the Central Highlands: Deputy PM

Vietnam News 21 Sep 2023
Among the tasks that need to be implemented, the foremost is to study mechanisms and policies that encourage and effectively mobilise resources from all economic sectors for investment in the construction of technical infrastructure, particularly transportation infrastructure.
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Algeria and Russia are uniting to divide West Africa

The Hill 21 Sep 2023
Algeria, not least owing to its own policies against Morocco, is already surrounded by tensions there, Libya and Tunisia ... However, if we are to judge from its previous policies, Algeria really opposes only some foreign interventions while remaining supposedly neutral or actively supporting Russian-backed regimes in the Sahel.
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Carbon offsets undercut California’s climate progress, researchers Find

East Bay Times 21 Sep 2023
“If the offsets don’t work, it means your emissions are actually staying high and not getting squeezed down,” said William Anderegg, director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy at the University of Utah, and a contributor to last year’s study of IFM projects.
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Coalition to Cure Calpain 3 in Partnership with the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD�) ...

Longview News-Journal 21 Sep 2023
The new study, the LGMD2A/Calpainopathy Registry, creates a platform to bring the Calpainopathy community together and collect patient data that is an essential requirement for policy makers, academic researchers, and therapeutics companies to advance treatments for this disease.
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National Living Income needed to combat social inequality – GWU

The Malta Independent 21 Sep 2023
The GWU recently commissioned a study examining Malta’s NLI situation. The study determined that the NLI for an individual without any children to live a decent life would be around €12,200, which is way above the €10,000 minimum wage available at present.
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Report: Police pursuits should be rare

Beatrice Daily Sun 21 Sep 2023
The study released Tuesday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, follows a spike in fatalities from police chases during the pandemic and the criticism of several police departments for the increased use of pursuits, including in Houston and New York City ... The study funded by the U.S.
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Report: Police pursuits should be uncommon

Winston-Salem Journal 21 Sep 2023
The study released Tuesday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, follows a spike in fatalities from police chases during the pandemic and the criticism of several police departments for the increased use of pursuits, including in Houston and New York City ... The study funded by the U.S.
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Aspartame could cause memory and learning deficits in future generations: new study

New York Post 21 Sep 2023
Aspartame defended by industry experts after cancer risk warning A chemical in Splenda found to cause 'significant health effects' in new study Popular artificial sweetener, erythritol, could raise risk of heart attack and stroke ... Over a 16-week period, the researchers studied three groups of mice.
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What climate change? Study finds political parties lack focus on climate issues

The Jakarta Post 21 Sep 2023
... issues of climate change and energy transition on their platforms, while politicians only talk about them in relation to economic policy, a recent study has revealed.
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Report critical of police pursuits

Billings Gazette 21 Sep 2023
The study released Tuesday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, follows a spike in fatalities from police chases during the pandemic and the criticism of several police departments for the increased use of pursuits, including in Houston and New York City ... The study funded by the U.S.
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Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate: report

Alternet 21 Sep 2023
That’s according to a report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League that examined nearly three years of “alarming levels of extremist ideology and activity” in Texas, and suggested a handful of policies to combat the growing problem ... creating a commission to study ...

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