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Titled “What Happens When a Retailer Drops a Product Category? Investigating the Consequences of Ending Tobacco Sales,” the study demonstrated the role of tobacco as a traffic driver to brick-and-mortar stores, and negative microeconomic consequence a ban would have, whether voluntary or not.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership recently announced the agency will undergo an overhaul to address the causes of repeated missteps during the pandemic. For how that might actually look, Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke to Julie Swann on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.  Swann is a professor of industrial and systems engineering at N.C. State. She’s done much research in this area, including on behalf of CDC itself.

The summer of 2022 will go down on record with an unprecedented number of flight delays and cancellations. Few travelers have been spared from the air travel chaos, with everyone’s patience pushed to the edge.

Two electrifying moves in recent weeks have the potential to ignite electric vehicle demand in the United States. First, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, expanding federal tax rebates for EV purchases. Then California approved rules to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

The United States and China may be on different geopolitical paths but they face a common climate crisis. Instead of expending all their efforts on competing against each other, the world’s two biggest economies have a responsibility to address the climate threat – before it is too late.