STUFF ... New power plant emissions rules coming this week in US ... EDF turbine supply agreement with GE for up to 200Mw of wind turbines ... Admin approved 4th LNG export terminal. Dominion plant in MD. $3.8B to convert from import terminal. Contracts already with Japan, India. Construction start next year, exports in '17. 77BCF/d allowed. US produces ~70BCF/d ... Wall St bought up ethanol credits lately. Prices spiking now as refiners need them ... US coal comps scaling back export goals. Global coal glut, price slump ... Chevron, Brazil reached $130M deal over oil spill offshore Rio ... FAA awarded $40M to 2 universities to study ways to reduce commercial aviation's enviro footprint ... Emissions of largest comps growing: study ... China signed carbon-trading assistance pact with Calif ... Nitrogen-fixing trees could help sequester more carbon: study ... Underwater melting plays large role in Antarctic ice shelf thinning: study ... Merkel cautioning EU against hiking CO2 targets for carmakers ... Czech senate approved law ending clean/renewable energy subsidies after '14. Solar plant operators claiming 128M Euro in damages from tax on revs, subsidy cuts ... Progress on Exxon North Slope NG venture ... Scotland approved 86Mw tidal energy project. MeyGen says site could yield up to 400Mw. Plans 9Mw demo online '15. Also Pelamis, Aquamarine awarded funds from 13M Pound program ... Iberdrola unit to install 4 tidal energy turbines for Alstom in Scotland. ~10Mw. Install late '15 ... Marubeni began geothermal survey in Japan national park ... Boulder County concerned about flooded oil/gas wells, retention tanks, ponds ... U Mich reports examined fracking in Mich ... 8B gal/yr potential from corn crop waste: USDA, Iowa ... Vegas strip to switch to LED lights, save $2M/yr ... Libya arrested strike leaders in hopes of ending oil protests, get production restarted ... Scotland launched 14M Pound program to increase # of EVs on roads ... Carbon footprint from global food waste bigger than all countries except China, US: UN. Every year world throws out ~1.3B tons of food. ~$750B/yr ... Canadian developer gathering financial partners for Ecuador solar projects ... Changes in French, German FITs fail to deter institutional investors ... Brit Gas 600M Pound deal with Landis&Gyr for majority of 16M smart meters ... Brazil to scale down nuke power plans in favor of wind ... Tongwei Polysilicon bought LDK Solar unit for $142M ... Vestas got 1st US wind project order for year. 80Mw for several EDF projects. Potential up to 750Mw ... Helios suspended ops, filed for Wisc receivership (bankruptcy) ... San Bernardino County Cal moratorium on solar development causing up to $70M of investments to move elsewhere.