Axios

The cancellation of Roseanne Barr's ABC show as a result of a racist tweet was covered far more than a Harvard study revealing that as many as 5,000 people may have died during and in the wake of Hurricane Maria last year in Puerto Rico.

The big picture: Media Matters for America found that news surrounding Roseanne was covered for more than 10 hours while the study surrounding the Hurricane was only covered for 30 minutes.

Investors rejected two non-binding but symbolically important shareholder resolutions related to climate change at Chevron’s annual meeting Wednesday.

Driving the news: One resolution calling for more action cutting methane emissions narrowly failed at 45%. Another, more aggressive proposal calling for the oil giant to propose ways to lessen its production of fossil fuels received just 8%, according to As You Sow, a nonprofit group that filed the resolutions on behalf of some Chevron investors.

Tesla improved the software for its Model 3's antilock braking system, according to Consumer Reports, improving the car's braking distance by 19 feet after using an over-the-air update.

Why it matters: This improvement led to the Model 3 getting the magazine's endorsement, after CR refused to give its recommendation last week thanks to the vehicle's long stopping distance. Jake Fisher, director of auto testing at CR, said: "I’ve never seen a car that could improve its track performance with an over-the-air update.”

Worldwide sales of electric vehicles jumped by 54% last year, but current and planned policies won't achieve an international goal of 30% of new vehicle sales by 2030, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.

Why it matters: Major progress in electrifying the transport sector — not only passenger cars, but also trucks, buses and other transport — will be vital in achieving very steep greenhouse gas emissions cuts in the coming decades.

Chevron faces two votes on non-binding but symbolically important shareholder-pushed resolutions on climate change at the company’s annual meeting today.

Why they matter: The votes are the latest in a string of climate-related resolutions being pushed at publicly traded energy companies over the past couple of years, which occur for most firms during their springtime annual meetings in a process called “shareholder democracy.”

While a handful of electric scooter startups are duking it out on the streets (and sidewalks) of San Francisco, seven-year-old motorized scooter company Scoot is expanding to its second city, Barcelona, and adding a new vehicle: bicycles.

Why it matters: “Even though Uber and Lyft have gotten really cheap, they're not that cheap… You don't have to be rich to be in a hurry,” Scoot co-founder and CEO Michael Keating tells Axios.

Officials still don't have an agreed upon number of storm-related casualties from Hurricane Maria, which slammed the island of Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, causing massive destruction to the island's infrastructure and knocking out the entire power grid.

Why it matters: Now a new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Monday, finds a far higher estimate for the actual death toll, 4,645, than the official estimate of just 64.

Canada is buying Kinder Morgan's controversial Trans Mountain oil pipeline for $3.5 billion to ensure an expansion project for the pipeline moves forward with plans to resell it to a new owner when "appropriate," reports Bloomberg.

Why it matters, per Axios' Ben Geman: The project will expand oil shipments from Alberta to Canada's west coast, giving access to growing Asian markets. The report signals the challenge the Canadian government is facing as it seeks market access for massive, but expensive to extract, resources from land-locked oil sands projects in Alberta.

Hotter temperatures cut academic achievement by inhibiting cognitive skill development, but more air conditioning in schools can mitigate those harms, new research on U.S. students shows.

Why it matters: The findings on how heat lowers the "productivity of instructional time" provides new data points on the effect of higher temperatures on human welfare and performance. (The National Bureau of Economic Research circulated the paper on Monday, and it can be downloaded here.) It concludes that air conditioning's economic benefits far outweigh installation and operation costs.