STUFF ... Navajo Nation in 20-yr drought ... Near half US nuke fleet reactors operating in full violation of safety regs. Melt down risk from fire ~50% ... FRA to propose requiring 2-person crews on trains hauling crude, other crew size stds ... Algenol founder says costs $1.27/gal to make fuel from algae with their tech ... Bill intro'd in Congress to have Treasury issue $50B of "Clean Energy Victory Bonds" to offset extension of clean E tax breaks ... IPCC finding transportation emissions on track to double by '50. To become one of biggest drivers of climate change ... Gazprom pushing ahead with pipeline bypassing Ukraine ... Cal needs better measure of water use to get through future droughts ... Focus on climate threats could cause harm, lessen public response: experts ... Virginia governor reactivated state climate panel ... White House initiative for "cow of the future" over methane emissions. (I thought of gas bags) ... P&G intro'd new palm oil policy. Zero deforestation by '20. (Um, underwhelming timeline) ... NC regulators sided with Duke against coal ash cleanup ruling ... Cal regulators keeping batt recycling plant closed over pollution ... WY to begin plugging abandoned oil/gas wells ... Only 3 Bakken drillers helping with oil testing: DOT ... TX grid operator backs $590M plan for power reliability for Houston ... ND clamping down on Bakken radioactive frack waste ... Statoil working to cut CO2 emissions from oil sands production ... ADB loan for Bangladesh green infra could draw in $760M investment ... TransAlta (Canada wind, hydro) to raise $125M in share sale ... Global wind installs to rise 34% to 47Gw in '14. To near double next 5 yrs to ~600Gw. Down 21% in '13 from US policy ... Mexico target 35% clean E by '24. Needs to avg 2Gw/y. Most going to be wind ... Brazil expected to add up to 4Gw wind this year ... S Africa target 9Gw wind by '30 ... Ethiopia 7Gw wind by '30 (1 of best wind resources in world) ... Iberdrola abandoned sale of Romanian wind assets. 80Mw farm, majority stake in 192Mw development pipe ... EverPower Wind (NY) to buy 240Mw IL wind farm from Suzlon ... 100B bls recoverable: Pioneer Resources CEO. "Perfect kind of shale": geologist. In US. (Hard to find out about it. But hell a lot of oil. Monterey?) ... Russia clean E auctions for '15-'18 start May 28. Over 1.6Gw wind, 496Mw solar to get subsidies. Annual limit for all clean E 6 or 7Gw. Clean E .8% of E mix now. Govt wants 2.5%. 1st auction last fall was 504Mw, 39 projects. 50% local content required for solar ... Crude stocks on TX coast all-time high 202M bls. Can't accept much more from OK. Only 13 US owned/crewed tankers legally allowed to move oil between US ports fully booked. (2,400 global tanker fleet.) Refineries still down for maintenance ... Only 1 oil export terminal turned over to Libya govt so far. Loading could start Sunday ... US banned new Iran ambassador to UN from entering country. He was in on US embassy takeover in '79 ... Stanford scientists have new, highly efficient way to make ethanol from carbon monoxide ... States will have flexibility on how to implement new EPA GHG regs for existing power plants ... Martifer Solar connected 78Mw to UK grid in 9 wks. Built for Lightsource. 700-900MW solar installed in UK 1Q14 ... ET Solar completed 7.8MW solar plant in Israel for EDF ... Acciona supplying 252Mw of wind turbines for 2 Mexico projects. $650M total to build. Online '16. Fisterra Energy to own ... Open Hydro, Alderney to build $833M, 300MW tidal power plant offshore English Channel island. 150 turbines. '20 completion. To export power to Britain, France. Est. Brit Isles have up to 1/2 Europe's tidal power resource, ~10% of world's ... Macquarie (UK) got $285M to refinance portfolio of over 2M smart meters in UK. UK urging utilities to install over 53M smart meters by '20 (12B Pounds) ... IKEA bought 98Mw wind farm being built in IL. Online '15. IKEA wants to make as much clean E as E they use by '20. Invested in wind power in 8 countries, now US ... DOE, Tampa El launched CO2 capture project at power plant ... Wal Mart to sell line of cheap organic foods ... Toyota to apply hybrid engine tech to conventional cars ... China artist sold jar of clean French air for $860 as protest of China pollution ... What a world, A, pards? Onward and upward. Happy trailers.