CHINA, RUSSIA COULDN'T close price gap, reportedly, in NG deal ... IEA to help countries improve energy efficiency ... Forest fires may spur Greenland melt: study ... Indianapolis partnering with French comp to launch EV sharing service ... FL Gov denies climate change. Ocean threatening his beach-side mansion (God does have a sense of humor.) ... Rate of Antarctic ice loss doubled in last 10 yrs: ESA ... Climate change could turn sea turtle populations all-female before wiping them out ... EPA finalized standard for cooling water at power plants aimed at keeping fish, other life from being vacuumed into plants, factories. Enviros calling it "worthless", may sue ... Shell sees no risk to its assets in carbon-constrained world ... LNG import project in US got partial OK from FERC ... S Africa wants 42% of newly-installed powergen to be clean/renewable by '30. Solar should reach 8.4Gw. Solar power expected to reach over 1Gw by '15. Was 25Mw in '12 ... ND oil production in March same as Nov '13: ND. April production over 1Mb/d ... IEA increased forecast for growth in global oil demand this year to avg. 1.32Mb/d. Global supply of "all liquids" up 700Kb/d in April v. March to 92.1Mb/d ... Moscow making another effort to move oil trade off dollar. (Maybe they talked about that in China too.) ... Goldman Sachs report: new NG pipelines being built in PA will allow more Marcellus production to reach users, reducing draw on stockpiles next winter ... US agreed to supply Iraq with $1B of military hardware to deal with Anbar uprising ... China's Jan-April crude imports up 11.5% v. '13. April imports up 21% v. '13 to 6.8Mb/d ... UK oil production from N Sea could see 1st increase in over 10 yrs ... Mexico now net importer of petrol products from US, 1st time in at least 40 yrs ... Railroads now face fines up to $250K from Canada for safety violations ... EPA proposed to tighten oil refinery emissions standards. 1st time in near 2 decades ... TX wants fracking comps to report data on wastewater disposal wells daily instead of yearly ... Oakland said no thanks to coal export terminal proposal ... KLM launched biofuel-powered flights to Caribbean ... Exxon started up Papua New Guinea LNG export terminal ahead of schedule. $19B. 6.9M tons/yr cap. Most for Asian buyers ... $20M, 10Mw solar plant to be built in Rwanda ... Jacksonville to add 2 EV charging stations downtown. Now 6 in city, 4 at Nissan dealers. City will buy 1 with fed grant, then use parking fees to pay for free charging ... Westinghouse Solar to provide loans up to $45K each for US residential installs. $20M 3rd party finance ... Bolivia hired Spain comp to build 5Mw solar plant for $11.8M. Utility will save $3M/yr now spent on 20M liters diesel for powergen. Denmark paying for half, Bolivia the rest. Online by yearend ... Dominion broke ground on combined-cycle NG power plant in VA. Actually ~17% complete. Online in '16. $1.3B for 1.3Gw ... Former Alcoa site in E. St. Louis being developed for $65M, 20Mw solar farm ... Enel Green started building 2 solar farms in Chile. 60mw, 40mw for $110M, $70M. Enel about to finish another 36Mw solar plant in Chile ... Annual market for corporate green bonds to double this year to ~$20B. Total market to reach $40B this year ... Fed appeals court denied BP's request to limit Gulf spill settlement payments ... NY AG wants to force utilities by law to prepare for climate change risks ... Strategy on food waste needed to feed growing world population: report ... MN 1st state to ban antibacterial chem found in soaps, deoderants ... US solar capacity to be near 20Gw by '15 ... Group of European research firms intends to build 1Gw solar module factory to stave off China competition ... Armstrong (Singapore) committing up to $40M to fund wind, solar projects in SE Asia ... US cleantech comps some of victims in Chinese hacking case ... Syncarphia (NY) to invest $250M in solar projects ... Oman's RAECO to invest $200M in 90Mw clean/ren power cap ... Solar Bioenergi (Norway) raised $109M. Biomass power producer ... Grupo Terra (Honduras) to invest ~$180M in 2 wind projects, total cap 100Mw.