STUFF ... China levying 13 cent/liter tax on biodiesel, kerosene imports. Ordering cities to charge more for water ... Researchers developing geothermal power plant that locks away CO2 underground, use it to boost el gen at least 10x v. present geo plants ... O yea, by the by, US wind power subsidy lapsed Jan 1 ... DOE pulled funding for Bluefire Renewables (BFRE) advanced biofuel refinery in Miss. BFRE failed to meet deadlines to finance remainder of project ... Global warming's role in Cal drought unclear: climate experts ... Melt of Antarctic glacier slowed by La Nina-caused wind switch: study ... NYC GHG emissions down near 20% from '05 ... China aiming to cut emissions with new credit ratings ... Israel 2-yr plan to make Knesset greenest parliament in world ... EPA tightened 25-yr-old emissions rule for home wood stoves/heaters. Would make them 80% more efficient. Smoke particulate matter linked to asthma, cardio-vascular disease ... FERC, CFTC settled differences over policing energy markets ... EPA appealing ruling on permits for CAFO discharges ... Central Valley Cal sinking as farms drain aquifer ... DOE at deadline for rehearing on nuke waste fees ... Siberian enzymes "most efficient" ever studied: NREL. Could help cut biofuel costs ... Labor union pushing into Tesla factory ... Failed Fisker plant unlikely to restart production ... W Sahara dispute threatening solar projects ... New England governors want to fast track hundreds of miles of power lines, pipelines to lower el, NG costs ... Global M&A deals hit lowest mark in '13 since '08: report ... Bakken area churches plan to serve homeless newcomers ... Okla tightening fracking chemicals disclosure rules ... Minn judge: solar beats NG for utility procurement ... TX clean energy transmission project delayed by bad weather ... Est. over 1.2K abandoned NG wells in E WY. Thousands more may soon be orphaned ... Reasons to believe US tight oil production adding 1Mb/d each of last 2 yrs won't continue this year. 70% new production in Bakken, 77% in Eagle Ford needed just to make up for decline of rapidly declining legacy wells: EIA ... Bakken oil found more dangerous to ship than other oil ... Bunge backed out of Miss ethanol plant. 54Mg/y. Ops suspended Dec '12. Ergon now owns it all ... Pertamina (Indonesia) biodiesel tender a bust. Secured 18% of 6.6B liter demand for '14 ... Gazprom hit record NG exports to Europe, Turkey in '13. 161BCM. Beat '08 ... Real Goods Solar (RSOL), Blue Wave to deploy 4 solar projects in Mass. 3.5Mw total. Online June. Blue Wave has ~60Mw solar under development ... GDC targeting $400M for 300Mw Kenyan geothermal plant ... Clean/renewable 24.7% of German el consumption: think tank ... Bolivia expects to boost wind power capacity to 20Mw by '15 ... US installed only clean/renewable power in Nov: FERC ... Gamesa to build 50Mw Costa Rica wind farm ... Kazakhstan re-imposed 6-mo ban on some petrol products exports Jan 1. Preventing critical shortage. Plans to increase oil production 50Kb/d to 1.7Mb/d, not including new supergiant oil field production with 11B bls, 1TCM NG ... Turkmenistan plans to increase NG production to 250BCM by '30, most for export ... Uzbekistan embroiled in energy corruption. Expect continued decline in oil production this year. Est. 340B bls oil shale deposits. Began drilling Mar '13. Plans to produce 2M tons/y oil shale liquids '14-'15. LUKoil plans to invest $5B in Uzbek projects next 5 yrs.