STUFF ... World ag "dangerously unprepared" for climate change. UN report predicts clime change will damage food supplies, curb econ growth ... WHO: tainted air kills more people than AIDS, diabetes. 7M/yr ... Study linked power plant emissions to children's health probs ... EPA doubled est. of oil spilled in S west OH nature preserve to 20K gal ... Houston Ship Channel still closed by 170K gal spill of bunker oil ... Oil spill in Sydney ... Fish embryo exposed to BP Gulf of Mex spill oil getting deformities. Heart defects in Gulf tuna ... 25 yrs after Exxon Valdez, ecosystem still recovering. Debate over who pays for remaining work ... Public support for state-level climate policy in US declining since '08: report ... Clime change will hurt US winemakers, help some in Germany, France: study ... Netherlands to join US in curbing funds for overseas coal power ... US admin to watch clime policy in other nations "closely": Zichal ... Rich nations plan fund to help cut methane emissions abroad ... OR's clean energy policies not good enough to meet emissions goals: report ... Supreme Court won't review challenge to EPA's Clean Water Act veto ... Murray Energy suing EPA over "war on coal" ... DOJ seeks $197M fine from Citgo over '06 spill ... NC moved to throw out Duke coal ash spill settlement ... Wash State ordered quick DOE sludge clean up at Hanford ... NM yanked nuke waste repository's expansion permit after leak ... Japan to hand over highly-enriched uranium, plutonium to US ... Chad fined China oil comp $1.2B ... N Africa power cap likely to double by '20 to 120Gw ... Morocco wants clean energy at 42% of cap by '20. 2Gw each solar, wind ... Algeria wants 22Gw clean energy by '30, 40% of total cap. 10Gw exported ... Tunisia wants 30% clean energy by '30 ... Libya wants 3% clean energy by '15, 10% by '20 ... Egypt wants 20% clean by '20 ... Greece proposing more cuts to clean energy FITs ... Japan approved solar tariff cut. 11% cut to 32 yen/Kwh. 36 yen for offshore wind. 22 yen for onshore wind. 14-34 yen for small hydro. 26 yen for geothermal over 15 Mw, 40 yen for less. Biomass 13-39 yen ... India could cut wind subsidies by up to 78%: report ... Siemens investing $264M in offshore wind turbine/blade factories in England. Another comp investing $150M. Brit expects ~10Gw offshore wind by '20. 3.6G now. Pipeline near 15G ... Comps will have to invest $641B next 20 yrs in pipelines, pumps, other infra to service oil/gas from US fields. $30B/y 3x avg of last 10 yrs ... Blue Sun demo plant for 100% drop-in av fuels now 24/7. 100bl/d MO plant. Industrial, waste oils feedstock ... 4-comp Okla JV formed for renewables, NG-to-fuels. Waste Management in it ... Colombia plans to increase ethanol production cap 50%, biodiesel cap 60% in '14-'15 crop year. 600K met tons/y biofuels production now ... Canada loaned $500K to CelluFuel demo plant in Brooklyn. 1.3M liters ethanol/y from 6K tons wood fiber. Nova Scotia put in $1.5M. $4M project ... Afghanistan potential Saudi Arabia of lithium. US handed over prized mineral data to Kabul. Covers 70% of country. Est. $1T in mineral deposits. Country now takes in under $150M/y mining revs. Eyeing billions by '20. Bolivia now world's largest exporter of lithium ... FERC approved 37km NG pipe. TX to Mex. 140MCF/d. Est. 2.2BCF/d NG exports to Mex approved by FERC ... Mitsubishi, Itochu to own 1/3 of new nuke plant operator in Turkey. 4 Mitsu/Areva (FR) reactors. $4.89B ea. 1st online in '23. GDF Suez also owner ... Commonwealth Edison to complete smart meter installs in IL ~ 5 yrs early ... AMSC to shutter Wisc plant, open Romania plant in '14. 5-10% workforce cut. $4.6M cost, $3M/y savings going forward. Also China, Austria facilities ... US proposal to bring nearly all rivers, streams, creeks under Clean Water Act, add clarity on wetlands protection ... Philipps 66 to pay $500K fine, retire sulfur credits in EPA settlement ... 11 EU nations exceed smog caps ... Study found farmers benefit little from chems linked to bee deaths (I've been there on that spraying Colo sunflower field. Testimony.) ... Another China city restricting new cars on pollution concern ... Truffle closed Eur500M cleantech emerging markets fund ... Opower (VA) plans to raise $133M in IPO. Energy management software ... Enel Green Eur153M loan from Santander for Mex wind farms ... Centrica (Brit)-led consortium to buy Ireland's Bord Gais retail unit, NG power plant for Eur1.1B ... Nordex - German wind turbine maker - 1st annual net profit in 3 yrs last year. Doubled its share of Eur market. Eur10.3M profit ... Australia delaying A$1B of clean energy projects with RET review ... NRG Energy got final FERC approval for Edison Mission Energy buy ... Hareon JV (China-Swiss) to invest Eur460M in 450Mw phase 1 Bosnian solar park ... ReneSola 1st Q profit in 2 yrs. 4Q $800K. $89M loss year before.