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NTSB investigation of Model 3 fatal crash in March finds Autopilot was active

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Autopilot also was active at the time of a 2016 fatal crash in Florida involving a semi-trailer and several other serious crashes since that incident. Preliminary vehicle data show that the Tesla was traveling about 68 mph when it struck the semitrailer. —David Friedman, Vice President of Advocacy for Consumer Reports.

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ExxonMobil adds 2.7B barrels oil equivalent to reserves; replaces 183% of 2017 production

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Liquids represented 57% of the reserves, up from 53% in 2016. As a result of higher prices in 2017 relative to 2016, about 900 million oil-equivalent barrels in North America qualified as proved reserves under SEC guidelines due primarily to the extension of the projected economic end-of-field-life. Exxon Mobil Corporation added 2.7

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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

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million new diabetes cases globally in 2016—about 14% of all new diabetes cases globally that year. million years of healthy life were lost in 2016 due to pollution-linked diabetes, representing about 14% of all years of healthy life lost due to diabetes from any cause. They also estimated that 8.2 In the US, the EPA’s PM 2.5

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Consumer Reports calls on Tesla to disable and update auto steering function, remove “Autopilot” name

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The consumer organization, which has owned and tested three Teslas (2013 Model S 85, 2014 Model S P85D, and 2016 Model X 90D), said that Tesla should also change the name of the Autopilot feature because it promotes a potentially dangerous assumption that the Model S is capable of driving on its own.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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million in payments to be made to intermediary companies in order to secure improper advantages to obtain and retain business with state-owned and state-controlled entities in West Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Equatorial Guinea. Between approximately January 2014 and February 2016, Glencore Ltd.