"Oh sure, the Tesla Model S may be the 'best car sold in America' per Consumer Reports, and it may be a Wall Street darling and perhaps the only electric vehicles for which demand exceeds supply. But that didn't stop regulators in New Jersey from ordering Tesla to shut down its stores by April 1 because the company doesn't use dealers like every other automaker."
"Federal analysis says sabotage of nine key substations is sufficient for broad outage."
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The Global Media Forum 2020 kicks off with virtual session "The blame game: What is the media's responsibility in the corona crisis?" at 9:00 a.m. ET. This year's theme is "Pluralism. Populism. Journalism."
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"Ohio officials said Tuesday that an oil and gas well near the site of two small earthquakes was undergoing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, when the quakes occurred."
The State Department's environmental impact statement for the Keystone XL pipeline has been the focus of a spin war among economic and political interests with a stake in the decision. The news media fell in line with the industry narrative that it "cleared the way" for the pipeline, ignoring the factual errors in the report. Media critics at the left-leaning Media Matters ask why the mainstream media failed to note Reuters' expose of the EIS' overstatement of rail traffic offering an alternative route for the oil.
"CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Diminished domestic demand has produced a virtual moratorium on federal coal sales in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, home to the 10 top-producing coal mines in the country."
"LOS ANGELES -- Elevated levels of lead have been found in the soil of homes and a preschool near a battery recycling plant in Vernon, south of downtown Los Angeles, prompting officials to issue health warnings and order more testing in adjacent neighborhoods."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-jersey-moves-shut-down-tesla-sales-despite-protests
[2] http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/new-jersey-moves-to-shut-down-tesla-sales-despite-protests-183753241.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-risks-national-blackout-small-scale-attack
[4] https://www.google.com/search?q=U.S.%20Risks%20National%20Blackout%20From%20Small-Scale%20Attack&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&channel=sb
[5] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-mccormick-specialized-reporting-institute-shale-gas-and-oil-development
[6] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deadline-high-country-news-internships
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/deutsche-welle-global-media-forum
[8] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2014-agenda-sunday
[9] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2014-main
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ohio-looks-whether-fracking-led-2-quakes
[11] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/us/ohio-looks-at-whether-fracking-led-to-2-quakes.html?ref=energy-environment
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/medias-conspicuous-silence-groundbreaking-keystone-xl-report
[13] http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/03/10/the-medias-conspicuous-silence-on-a-groundbreak/198424
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/wyoming-coal-sale-hiatus-takes-hold-weak-market
[15] http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-coal-sale-hiatus-takes-hold-in-weak-market/article_9f1c19a4-a691-11e3-911a-0019bb2963f4.html
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lead-levels-soil-near-la-area-battery-plant-prompt-health-warnings
[17] http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/11/3987358/high-lead-levels-in-soil-near.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3528
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3525
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3526
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3527
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3530
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3531
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3532
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3533
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5073