STUFF ... US CO2 emissions up 2% in '13, mostly from more coal burn by utilities ... First Energy agreed to work toward reducing CO2 emissions after shareholder pressure ... US energy self-sufficient by '35: BP ... 18 US senators formed group to support climate action ... Female finance leaders calling for more climate-related investment ... Mass $50M plan to battle climate change ... Maine regulators OK'd offshore floating wind power project ... Tesla (TSLA) hit new sales record, hit with recall ... Largest Japan utility doubled its coal burn in '13 ... $3.2M marine renewables test center created in Scotland. To test construction materials, prototype foundations for offshore wind, marine power ... Solar City (SCTY) to sell asset-backed debt offerings to individual investors ... Brazil's 14Gw hydropower dam broke its own world record. Produced over 98Twh in '13. Met 17% of Brazil power demand, 75% of Paraguay's. China's 3 Gorges only hydrodam larger ... Green mutual funds (13) up avg 37% in '13. None down. ALTEX nearly doubled. Green ETFs (17) up avg 43%. 3 down. TAN best performance, up 130% ... Boeing wants ASTM approval of green diesel as Jet A replacement by yearend. Hydroprocessed esters, fatty acids standard already approved for av fuel ... EC report says biofuels demand main driver for increased ag production for all 28 members through '23. Grain production expected to increase near 12M metric tons in the period ... Europe has 13.4M too few honeybee colonies to properly pollinate crops: U of Reading (UK) research ... NY $21M to help dairy farmers convert farm waste to energy ... Brazil mills used 54% of cane crop for ethanol in latest season. Up from 50% in previous crop. Total ethanol production hit 6.7B gal, up 19% on year ... Shell expected to sell $15B of assets next 2 yrs ... Drydocks World (Dubai) to build largest ever rig for N Sea. $730M ... Purdue researchers use 3-D "photonic crystals" to absorb more sunlight than present thin-film solar cells. ~10% increase ... Toshiba taking 60% stake - 102M Pounds - in NuGeneration (UK). To build 3 new gen Westinghouse nuke reactors in Britain. Combined 3.4Gw. GDF Suez to own other 40%. World's most advanced, safest pressurized water reactor design ... Southwest Research Institute deployed 1st vehicle-to-grid aggregation system qualified by ERCOT (TX) to manage charging for electric delivery truck fleet ... Initial demo test for capturing CO2 in flue gas from coal plant completed. Mitsubishi, Southern Company Services ... Super Bowl to be greenest ever. Waste oil from food production to be converted to biodiesel. All food scraps composted. Leftovers donated. Materials recycled. No styrofoam. Energy Star equipment for all cooking. Met Life Stadium 1st certified green restaurant stadium in world ... Russia's 1st solar panel factory opens in March. To initially supply up to 1.46B Euros of projects ... PROKON (Germany) - wind power developer - warns insolvency could be imminent ... Vattenfall (Sweden) completed sale of 18% stake in Polish utility for $338M ... RWE Innogy (Germany) to cut clean energy spending to below 500M Euro this year ... China '14 target 14Gw solar, 18Gw wind new cap ... Hanwha Solar (HSOL) forming development JV with investment firm. Will supply up to 700Mw ... French prez proposing Franco-German energy comp to catalyze clean energy development ... Jinko Solar to raise $200M from share, debt offerings ... Hybrid Tech raised Fisker bid to $55M after judge approved Feb auction ... Onward and upward, pards.