STUFF ... Australia fire season on roaring early tear this season after mild winter, hottest Sept on record ... UN climate chief: pricing carbon Australia's cheapest option ... Himalayan forests gradually turning brown: look see study ... Lack of water ended Bronze Age: researchers .... Chicago pledging 1-day solar permit process .... Rush to deploy clean energy tech costly recipe for failure to reduce carbon emissions: DC think tank. (Sound like Obamacare?) ... Carbon emissions from US power plants down 10% '10-'12: EPA ... Calif truckers strike over emissions restrictions ... Long-delayed nuke reactor went online in India ... Sumitomo to build 50Mw biomass power plant on Hokkaido. $153M. With wood chip aux. Online by '17 ... Dominion bought 5Mw Conn solar plant from Kyocera ... Nigeria to develop 420Mw solar with German help ... Iberdrola: regulatory issues impede 1B Euro from core projects.