ENERGY EFFICIENCY BILL died in US Senate over Keystone XL pipe, coming GHG emissions regs. Can't even agree on energy efficiency. Cowabunga ... Rising oceans from melting Antarctic ice sheets "unstoppable". It will take centuries, maybe millenium or more, though, say scientists ... Toyota letting batt supply deal with TSLA - 2.5K batt-motor powertrains - to expire this year. Toyota focus instead on fuel cell vehicles. Their RAV4 EV has poor sales. Plans to intro FCVs in Cal next year, build out hydrogen stations ... "Radical change" of global energy systems long overdue: IEA ... "Unlikely" US could fully clean up Arctic oil spill: NAS official ... FERC rejected changes aimed at preventing power market speculation. (Let's remember Enron.) ... GAO found big gaps in BLM's inspections, data for oil/gas wells on fed lands ... GE broke ground on Okla oil/gas research center ... Bright Source's 500Mw concentrated solar project in Cal delayed again ... Fed appeals court tossed challenge to DOI fees on coal exports ... EPA settled with Chevron for $875K over UT oil/gas spills ... WV coal mine accident. 2 dead ... Crews fighting to secure out-of-control fracked oil well in ND ... Duke Energy to dredge coal ash in Dan R ... Instability has been growing in Nigeria over last decade from climate change. Was same story in Syria. Desertification, water shortages, crop failures. Secondary impacts: sickness, hunger, joblessness. Opens the door to conflict. Many in Boku Haram displaced by severe drought, food shortages in Chad, Niger. Some 200K farmers, herdsmen lost their livelihoods. NIgeria also has new fuel crisis after slashing fuel subsidies. Finally, Nigeria's oil production has peaked. Production decline rates as high as 15-20%. Country doesn't have funds to replace lost production despite all the money made from oil to date ... Canada comp to export 1M gal biodiesel per month to US ... Another oil train derailment on Friday in Colo. Union Pacific RR transporting Niobrara shale oil. 6 oil cars derailed, ~6.5K gals spilled ... Russia showing interest in NG investment in Turkey (2nd largest [European] importer of Russian gas after Germany at 26.6BCM in '13. Turkey runs 46% of its 64.4Gw power gen cap on NG. Russia looking at building more NG power plants, NG storage facility in Turkey ... '14 Atlantic hurricane season expected to be weak. Let's hope it's so ... Consumers Energy teaming up with food banks in Mich to distribute 85K energy-efficient light bulbs ... Sprint selling iPhone cases made of waste CO2 by Newlight Tech ... One Ventures moving to plug gap in Australia's late-stage clean energy VC funding ... US military identifies clean/renewable energy as tactical resource ... UK to end Renewables Obligation for large solar in '15 ... Australia to terminate renewable energy agency. (I know.) ... Green Investment Bank investing 7.5M Pounds in London anaerobic digestion, green waste composting plant ... Charge Point - Cal EV charging network developer - raised another $22.6M, $110M so far ... Aquion Energy - Penn advanced batt tech developer - raised $20M from VC funds ... NextEra Energy to shut down 78Mw of TX wind power later this year after late '13 ice damage ... Enel Green Power bought extra 26% stake in 250Mw Kan wind farm from GE Capital for $60M. Stake now 75%.