AIR POLLUTION LINKED TO autism, schizophrenia in new study ... Bulgaria halted work on South Stream NG pipeline after EC request, talk with US Senators. $45B pipe to bypass Ukraine. Gazprom holds 50% stake in project (Obviously another sanction on Russia.) ... 551Mw of wind power won in latest Brazil power auction, more than half allocated ... EPA est. coal production in central Appalachia to fall up to 37% from new CO2 rule effects. Projects up to 19% of power gen from country's 600 coal-fired plants (~300Gw) will not be economical by '20 ... Latin Am countries forging ahead with CO2 reductions ... DOE broke law to prop up floundering uranium enrichment comp: GAO ... Record numbers of sick sea lions washed up on Cal shores ... Melting slowing at Glacier Natl Park: USGS ... NFL looking to offset Super Bowl's carbon footprint ... Special coating for roof tiles could clean smoggy skies: study ... Illinois 1st state to ban microbeads ... Rio won't keep promise to clean bay before Olympics: mayor ... L.A. mayor supports funding mass transit with cap-and-trade bucks ... EPA CO2 rule also targets NOx, SO2 emission cuts of over 25% ... RGGI region already reduced carbon emissions ~40% from '05 levels. Public Service NH power plant fleet '13 CO2 emissions 70% lower than '05 ... National Grid goal 45% less carbon emissions by '20, 80% by '50 from '90 baseline. Already 65% cut ... Colo water district turned on 8Mw $18M hydropower plant. Power to Aspen, Telluride ... Only ~3% of US dams include hydropower. (There's some get busy on it work to do.) ... Geothermal 5% of Cal powergen now. 2.7Gw cap. ~5.4Gw potential ID'd. Projected over 11Gw potential undiscovered ... US NG inventories still 37% below 5-year avg for time of year. NG production from Marcellus shale now over 12BCF/d. Ohio's Utica shale NG production over 1BCF/d. Est. 20B, 5B each by '18. Total US NG production 68.2BCF/d in May, up 4.6% on year. ( I got 24.8TCF/yr.) ... Drillers in ND now have to submit plans to capture any NG that emerges from new wells before getting permit. 1 solution to compress it on site, use in vehicles, equipment ... Numerous signs that recent wave of new investment in oil sands projects may be ending ... Iraq increased oil exports avg. 70Kb/d in May despite loss of northern pipeline from sabotage. (Their politics a mess. Violence up. Should have been split in 3 parts from the gitgo. Shiitestan, Kurdistan and Sunnistan. Oy.) ... 5% of China's cities meeting air quality standards ... Russia oil production down 5th month in row ... IMF called on Norway to cut back on spending its oil income on stimulus, spend it on developing economy for post-oil ... E15 out in Iowa until Sept for vehicles made since '01. Big Oil blamed. But E15 still OK for flex-fuel V's ... Only 1/4 of 1.6Gw solar capacity in development now in India will be finished if anti-dumping duties are imposed on solar imports ... Greenleaf got $100M finance to buy more biomass power plants in US ... Advanced Plasma - UK waste-to-energy developer - got $34M order for its tech from Canada comp for 20Mw project to process ~170K tons waste/yr ... Romania clean/renewable energy sector "dead for foreseeable future": EBRD ... S Korea pushing back 10% clean/ren energy target to '24 from '22 ... Qatar opened MENA region's largest solar manufacturing plant. 300Mw/yr cap ... Suzlon on track to install over 1.2Gw wind power in India this FY ... Lumenpulse (Canada) raised $100M in IPO. Energy efficient lighting ... BNDES $561M finance for 461Mw of wind power in Brazil. 3 projects.