70% OF E. UKRAINIANS wish to remain part of Ukraine: polls ... E. European countries often pay 50% more for Gazprom NG than W. Europe ... Lithuania got Gazprom to lower prices through '15. Used LNG import card. Gets 92% of NG imports from Gazprom ... Iran boosting oil exports in violation of agreement. Already 30% over. Nuke talks back on this week ... Rubio: climate change not caused by human activity ... Siemens to develop 8Mw-class offshore wind turbine to match AREVA, Vestas ... 4 utilities pre-qualified for 400Mw Danish offshore wind tender ... County board in Okla rejected Track Wind Energy (Kan) 150Mw wind project ... Clean Line Energy (TX) got FERC approval for 3.5Gw wind power transmission line. 750 miles from W. Kansas to several Midwest states ... EDF unit finished 150Mw wind farm in Turkey ... Eco 2 JV (UK) planning 45Mw biomass plant in England for 160M Pounds ... Abengoa OK'd to build 110Mw concentrated solar plant in Chile. Construction start this week ... SkyPower Global (Canada), FAS Energy (Saud) JV to build $5B 3Gw solar plant in Nigeria. To hit grid starting next year ... Hindustan Powerprojects, backed by Blackstone, plans IPO of solar unit to up solar investment to $2B by '16. $1B pipeline now. India plans to attract $11.7B solar investment by '17 ... India diesel generator supplier expects ~1/2 of sales to come from solar biz within couple years ... NHPC - India's biggest hydropower producer - to build 50Mw solar farm ... Sharp solar unit to record $49M loss this fiscal year ... CPFL Renovaveis (Brazil) net loss 1Q $24.5M ... Capital Stage (Germany) - wind, solar investor - 1Q up 130% over 1Q13 to 5.3M Euros. Revs up 42% to 12.7M Euros ... EPA advisors urging tougher ozone standards. Lower limit of 60 PPB, much lower than now ... Fed judge upheld Colo renewables law. Opponents plan appeal ... Outdated BLM oil/gas rules could be squandering tax revs: GAO ... DOE to revive lease program for uranium mining ... DOE oversight of loan guarantees improving, but more changes needed: IG ... Railroads now required to notify state emergency agencies when hauling Bakken crude through communities, also avoid old oil (pre-'11) tankers for Bakken oil ... USDA to offer over $12M in energy efficiency grants, over $57M in loans ... ADM committing to sustainable palm oil ... More kinds of bees means better crop yields: research ... Ocean research sub lost in Pacific ... Methane likely remained in sea longer than thought after BP Gulf of Mex spill: study ... BP to spend $10B over next 5 years in deepwater US Gulf of Mex. About 10% world explore/production budget. To be largest investor there ... Angola probably won't reach 2Mb/d oil production target for '15. New projects will be too late to boost declining flow ... Iran planning NG pipeline to supply E. Iraq power plants. S. Pars NG may flow by yearend ... Iran planning to boost crude production 1Mb/d within 4 years ... Opponents of new oil development in Amazon national forest in Ecuador failed to submit enough signatures to force national referendum ... Colombia crude production fell to 935Kb/d in April. 20-month low. Rebel attacks, community protests stopping production, exports ... Mexico expects to open bidding on 1st round of private oil contracts 1H15. Hopes to have private comps producing 500Kb/d by '18 ... Pakistan to cut NG supply to fertilizer plants, CNG pumps to increase power supply to reduce rolling blackouts ... North Dakota LNG construction start this summer on NG processing plant. 1st phase 10K gal/d LNG for commercial fuel. Phase 2 in '15 to increase to 76K gal ... ND oil/gas workers 6x more likely to die on job than peers in other states. Inexperience ... AK governor signed bill for NG pipeline ... World Nature Organization founded in Geneva ... TVA rates 13% above avg. for power co-ops ... Coal powers 84% of Indiana electricity ... Sinopoly Battery (Hong Kong) investing $42M in Smith EV - el truck maker ... Stanford taking coal stocks out of portfolio.