RAPID ARCTIC WARMING may be partly due to natural climate variations: study ... Kansas wheat in heat wave ... Over 1/2 of Chinese say they're environmentalists. Over 600M of us just from there. (I wonder how many Americans.) .... US views on climate change deviate from world norm: polls ... India cities have dirtiest air on earth: WHO study .... UN climate chief asking religious leaders to divest fossil fuel assets ... Nordex developing "smart" turbines with EIB Euro100M loan ... Shunfeng, Greenfield (Germ.) partnering on 900Mw solar development in UK by '15 ... Toshiba to bid for Alstom power grid business ... Falck Renewables (Italy) got OK to build 48Mw wind power in UK, France ... DOE awarded $141M to 3 US offshore wind demo projects. NJ, VA, OR ... RES Americas got DOI OK for 200Mw solar project on NV Native American land. Project to be bought by NV Energy for $438M ... MBB Clean Energy (China) wants $88M from share sale to finance biomass projects ... Abengoa to buy 25% of China water firm (Diversifying from wind biz.)... GDF Suez-led consortium won 1Gw French offshore wind tender ... Enel Green Power to invest $200M more in Mexican wind ... Windwaerts (Germ.) started insolvency process ... By end of April, Beijing had collected $14M in fines this year from polluters ... N Colo oil/gas drilling methane emissions 3x higher than EPA estimate: NOAA study ... California expanding its "Hydrogen Highway" for HFCVs ... German Cabinet approved green energy surcharge rebate for power-intensive comps .... Chesapeake aiming to trim $1M of cost for each new well this year .... Beverly Hills banned fracking .... Encana bought into Eagle Ford with $3.1B .... MD oyster population doubled since '10 .... AK banned king salmon fishing in Yukon R .... Enviros suing fed to stop drilling project in Utah national forest .... TSLA lost $50M in 1Q. Panasonic signed LOI for mega battery plant that will lower TSLA's battery costs 30%, besides assuring deliveries (the current problem as I understand it) .... EPA added 7 sites to Superfund cleanup list. Targeting 5 more .... US imports of heavy crude can't fall much more because of refineries geared for (invested in) heavy crude refining. US crude, though, now mainly light crude from fracking. US imports of light crude has virtually stopped. US light crude refineries using US light crude. (I think US may need another or 2 more new light crude refineries to handle the 1Mb/d more expected US light crude coming soon.) .... Deal to open 4 E. Libya (light) oil export terminals broke down. Their Congress voted to reject their new Prime Minister that they elected just hours after swearing him in. (These guys have gone nuts.) .... Swiss researchers made breakthrough in cellulose pre-treatment, (Ah, back to sanity.) .... Cal ethanol prices down near 1/2 since late March .... US Gulf of Mexico oil production on road to recovery. Next year's production to end 4-year slump after BP spill. New wells started production in Feb. Production estimated to increase 150Kb/d this year, another 240Kb/d next year. Capping system to prevent BP-like catastrophe ready for deployment .... Florida gasoline demand 3rd highest ever for time of year. Gas stockpile 7% lower than last year. Weak fuel infrastructure. Most comes via ship from Gulf Coast .... Vestas got 59Mw turbines order from S Korea. 3.3Mw turbines. Farm online late '15 .... Ireland teaming with Sustainable Development Capital (UK) to set up fund to invest $97M in energy efficiency projects. Returns from cost savings. 1st 2MEuro investment saving company 540KEuro/year on power bills with just lighting changes .... SCTY expects to install 500-550Mw rooftop solar this year, 25Mw over March forecast. Installed 82Mw in 1Q, up 78% over last year. Expects to install up to 1Gw in '15 .... Yingli got 30Mw order for several solar projects in Turkey .... Armstrong Asset Management (Singapore) expects to invest in 2 or 3 clean energy developers by end of this month, may spend up to $600M .... GE got 70Mw wind turbine order from Brazil .... JUHL buying 3.2Mw of wind power in Iowa for about $5M. JUHL owns about 22Mw of wind power in MN worth about $31M. (Their stock valuation seems low.)