POP THE CORKS! We've entered a new geological epoch. Anthropocene. Future geologists will be able to spot fundamental discontinuity in rock strata traceable to us. Climate change, acidic oceans. mass extinctions. Jelly fish take over oceans; rats, crows, cockroaches the land .... Solar panels installed at White House. 8-yr payout. (And the next Republican will take them down.) .... New Delhi air pollution reaching 3x level of Beijing. More PM 2.5 (particulate matter under 2.5 micrometers diameter, believed to pose greatest health risk because it penetrates deep into lungs). Hardly mentioned in ongoing elections. Fierce denials by govt .... Air pollution killed ~7M people worldwide in '12. World's biggest enviro health risk. Heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer .... Worker fatalities surging in ND oil patch .... Siemens doubling down on US energy, GE targeting Europe .... 65% chance of El Nino in US. Expect crop losses .... PLUG got order for 182 fuel cell forklifts from Central Grocers .... PEGI public offering to raise ~$510M .... EVSI targeting 9-figure finance for EV Arc rollout .... Deepwater Wind got enviro OKs for 30Mw Rhode Island offshore wind project. State water quality certificates .... Strabag (Austria) got permit to build 328Mw offshore wind in N Sea after 8-yr approval process. 5-8Mw turbines .... Boralex (Canada) plans to build 100-300Mw onshore, offshore wind in Europe over coming years .... Pakistan cotton mill giant to invest in 50Mw solar farm .... Musk: TSLA could start building mega battery factory in June .... Vestas 2M Euro profit 1Q, up 153M Euro from 1Q13. Revs up 17% to 1.3B Euro. Orders up 84% .... Gamesa more than doubled 1Q profit to 17M Euro .... 10 of 13 oil cars that derailed in Lynchburg were built after '11 under new regs. Even 1 that ruptured, spilled 30K gals into James R. In '13, 116 episodes involving oil cars, over 2x combined from '90 to '09. 154 cars failed, up 50% from '12 .... USGS web tool maps impacts of climate change on watersheds .... Climate research would get 24% cut in FY15 budget in House bill .... UK group asserting slump in oil demand may turn Canada oil sands into stranded assets .... Black bear killed woman at Alberta oil sands site .... Investments in Alberta tar sands make neither econ nor climate sense: report. Ditto Arctic oil production, most deepwater deposits .... Obama admin unveiled energy efficiency program. Senate bill dying .... Regulatory groups helping EPA build energy efficiency into new rule on existing power plants. Push from 23 governors .... Arctic to become 50% wetter by 2100: study .... Nitrogen pollution jeopardizing NY marshland: report .... Million-year climate record within reach .... Enviro activism on rise in Russia .... Green biz travel increasingly popular with comps .... Obama admin released 2 new proposed rules, new policy on protecting critical habitat for threatened, endangered species .... Judges backed EPA on soot standard .... VT governor signed GMO labeling law .... Boston investor group helping low income areas get solar power .... New study links bee deaths to insecticides .... Antibiotic-resistant genes found in every environment tested: study .... WY rejected standardized teaching about climate change. (Isn't that where dinosaur bones were found?) .... Indonesia taking EU to WTO over biodiesel import tariffs .... Kyrgyzstan has gone without NG for over 3 weeks. Gazprom took over system in Dec for $1. Uzbekistan cut off NG, maybe to protest Crimea, Ukraine, Gazprom .... China interests buying 98-yr lease of Australia coal export facility for $1.6B. 140M tons shipped in '13 .... DOE: 2 more LNG export terminals to be approved "fairly soon". (We can barely cover our own demand now. What the heck?) .... More US coal being exported to Europe .... Tony "I just want my life back" Hayward voted permanent chairman of Glencore Xstrata.