STUFF ACCUMULATED ... Robot labor now at ~30 cents/hour. Robot industry est. $17B by '16 ... First Energy sued in W Va over coal waste dump they agreed to shut down cuz of arsenic, sulfates, others leaching into drinking water ... US Geothermal 22Mw OR plant now online for Idaho grid ... Thai Solar expanding into solar rooftop biz ... CRTE, NRG, Digicel doing Carribean clean energy initiatives ... Owens Corning, NYSERDA, Constellation powered up largest solar install under NY Sun Initiative. 2.7Mw ... E.On (Germanics) dedicated 10Mw solar plant in AZ. Their 1st in US ... Almost all land ecosystems at risk of major shifts from climate change: study ... Disease, insect threats linked to clime change worse than expected: study ... Study BEES kids! ... Iceburgs, insurance hinder Arctic shipping route opened by clime change ... Noble drilling in Jordan? (Inside skinny from bro who sold nitrogen fertilizer plants around the world in '70's) ... Farmers to plead guilty in contaminated canteloupe epidemic ... UN agency dubbed air pollution a leading cause of cancer. Well, like we didn't figure that out decades ago ... UK Ok'd China buy-in to nuke plants ... Appalachian mountaintop removal providing coal for Europe. Great, huh? ... Beijing Sept el use up 10.4% yoy. Jan-Sept 7.2%. EC OK'd phase out of Belgian biofuel support to 7 comps ... Scotland now 40% powered by clean/ren energy ... Ex-Halliburton (not Cheney) manager facing jail for destroying Deepwater Horizon evidence. Tsk tsk slap on the wrist ... Russia's oil industry spills 30M bls/yr. Ooey gooey ... Norway sovereign fund - $750B - likes clean/ren ... ND owners of mineral rights filed 10 lawsuits over lost royalties from NG flaring ... Calif 1st state to require utilities to invest in energy storage ... American supermarkets, retailers not keeping pledge to limit GHGs from refrigs, cooling systems: report ... Clime change threatening Nepal food security ... Merkel supports boosting EU carbon prices ... Earthworms help store CO2: study ... Peru fishers slaughtering dolphins for shark bait: enviros. Well, that has to stop pronto if true ... Trans Canada - O Canada - pipeline leak ... Xcel OK'd to build 4 new wind farms ... Treaty could end comm use of mercury within 30 yrs (how will we tell the temp?) ... Bulgaria facing legal action over bird deaths at wind farms ... Malaysia stall on nuke power plan ... Colo levying fines for late FracFocus reports ... Shale oil/gas boosting railroad profits ... Global data: US biodiesel production set to soar past RFS demand. Happy trailers pards.