STUFF ... TSLA reportedly getting tax breaks to expand production ... DOI awarded $7M to universities, partners to research how climate change will affect lands. wildlife ... Cornell leaders voted to dump all fossil fuel investments by '35 ... Cutting down certain forests could help cool planet: study ... Chicago to crack down on petcoke storage ... Hundreds evac'd in Tenn after toxic superfund site caught fire ... China to study climate change at new Antarctic bases. (I bet they're going to prospect for those diamonds, too.) ... MISO expanding to US Gulf Coast with massive addition of assets ... Major oil sands operators teaming up to test external leak detection tech ... BP made 1st big Gulf of Mex oil find since Deepwater disaster. Over 29K feet deep ... Sen. Baucus proposing to swap out existing "patchwork" of energy tax incentives with new tax credits for clean energy, clean transport fuels, CO2 storage ... EPA invalidated over 33M renewable fuel creds sold by Indiana comp for biofuel it didn't make. Over $13M worth. 4th alleged fraud case for program ... Majority of Mexican states approved new energy law ... PNNL researchers producing crude oil just minutes after adding algae. Genifuel (Utah) has licensed the tech, working with partner to build pilot plant ... Demand for solar in Mexico to more than triple in '14 to 250Mw. Will become LatAm's biggest market by '16: GTM Research ... Trina Solar to supply 25Mw in Thailand ... Solar Frontier (Japan) to invest $125M for 150Mw CIGS plant in Japan ... China Wind Power Group sold 9.9% stake to China comp for less than $49M, 15% discount ... Acciona Energia (Spain) sold 150Mw German wind portfolio to Swisspower Renewables for 157M Euros, 85M Euros debt ... IFC providing $75M loan to Chile comp to finance clean energy projects in Chile ... OPIC to double investments in Pakistan, wind power to be key priority ... OH Supreme Court approved 200Mw wind project ... China-made solar cells subject to EU levies starting Dec 25 ... PNE Wind (Germany) JV with S Africa comp to build 2 wind farms in S Af. 130Mw total.