STUFF .... Ford cutting price of '14 el Focus 10%. GM to put 500K EVs on road next 5 yrs ... REGI completed $21M upgrade at MN biodiesel plant ... Shell to settle alleged violations of Clean Air Act at Houston refinery/chem plant. $117M ... Report: global solar industry revs to soar after this year. Market seen to be $134B by '20, up 50% from now ... Historic flood in Toronto from rains ... Canada OK'd massive oil sands expansion ... $12M rail park to serve Permian Basin oil producers ... China reported slump in oil imports. OPEC sees slipping demand for their crude next yr ... US NG production growth dampening Iran's LNG hopes ... GAO: NRC slow to revise enviro guidance for nuke power plant license etensions ... 1st full-scale simulation opened door to 80-yr reactor life ... EU moving to restrict food crops in transportation fuels ... Radioactive groundwater at Fukushima liekly leaked into ocean for 2 yrs: regulator (seen those 3-eyed fish yet?) ... Apple to build 18-20Mw solar array for NV data center. SPWR low-concentrating PV tech. Uses single-axis parabolic mirrors. Concentrates sun 7x onto cells. 22.8% efficient. Online early '14. Apple completing 2 20Mw SPWR PV plants at NC data center. This site also uses 10Mw biogas plant, fuel cells ... Japan's "3rd arrow" of econ policy included pledge of over $300B to boost competition in pow gen sector, encouraging clean/ren elgen/storage ... DOI approved 520Mw of solar, geothermal in AZ, NV. 100Mw CSP/molten salt storage solar in AZ, 350Mw solar PV in NV, 70Mw geotherm in NV. BLM has 15 more sites under review ... Coalition for clean/renew heating, cooling formed in Mass. Wants to include biomass, solar, geotherm in state's RPS ... 2/3 of Eqypt's oil gone 20 yrs after its peak ... EC proposed $4.8B Public Private Partnership from '14-'20 for biobased industries ... Acciona completed 33Mw wind farm in Poland, their 2nd there. 3Mw turbines ... Ethiopia, Djibouti signed $2B el power interconnect agreement ... Trina Solar to supply 7Mw of modules for UK project ... China, US to jointly develop tech to capture CO2, lower emissions from heavy trucks, increase energy efficiency in bldgs, improve GHG emiss data collection. Plans ready by Oct ... Q2 clean energy investment totaled over $50B ... UK govt approved RWE's 1.2Gw offshore wind farm ... Vattenfall committing 460M Pounds to UK wind farms.