STUFF .... New research calls for seismic monitoring, modeling before CO2 injection underground ... Study: solar hydrogen production generates favorable energy payback ... Study: liklihood of Australia heat waves to increase 5x ... Queen Elizabeth leading UK clean/renewable energy charge ... WV drilling site explosion injured at least 5 ... Russia clean/ren energy bill disappoints. Regions picking up slack. Went into effect end of May. Aims for 6Gw of new clean/ren energy generation capacity by '20. Govt pledged to allocate ~$2.8B ... 3 more solar bankruptcies in past week. Conergy (Germany). Was installing systems on NM schools at grid parity. Gehrlicher Solar (Germany), affected by EU tariffs on Chinese solar. Hoku going into liquidation. Owes $1B ... Canada oil shipments by rail up 28K% since '09. 140K carloads/yr now ... Chechnyan war (ended '09) left est. 1/3 of all arable land saturated with oil, among the death and destruction. Rosneft now to spend $132M for geo surveying. Chechnya looking for foreign investment in oil/gas resources development ... Russia to have world's 1st floating nuke power plant (70Mw) by '16 ... Toyota committing $7B to advance hybrid tech over coming fiscal yr ... Ireland utility launched E4.2M EU-funded project to expand EV charging network ... Ming Yang Wind Power (China) completed 6.5Mw prototype super compact drive turbine ... 2 new energy bills signed into law in CT. State can now count large hydropower as clean energy to meet mandate. State to wind down reliance on wood burning biomass, landfill gas. Also encourages NG utilities to expand pipelines ... CSIQ to supply Thai solar developer with 91Mw ... China won't intro duties on EU polysilicon imports ... Phoenix Solar building 38Mw solar farm in GA. State's largest when done later this year. JASO panels. $85M cost ... Andhra Pradesh India approved 186Mw of wind farms ... US PV solar capacity broke 10Gw mark ... France to impose 5% energy bill hike to pay for EDF's rising debt ... DOE to modify rule phasing out fossil fuels to power fed bldgs, get appliance standards on track ... House GOP to carve food stamps out of farm bill ... US, China to begin talks on climate change ... Feds suing Oklahoma utility over emissions from coal-fired power plants ... DOE to study enviro impacts of engineered energy crops ... 1st Energy to close 2 PA coal power plants ... 3rd lawsuit against Exxon for Yellowstone spill ... Study: life expectancy drops from Chinese air pollution ... China enviro official says his agency among world's most "embarrassing" ... Head of Fukushima nuke plant dead from cancer.