DROUGHT TAKING TOLL on hydropower gen in California ... Calif drought "fluke of nature": record coho salmon migration ... "Bee killer" chem found in home, garden stores: report ... Japan's hardest-hit Fukushima areas will be safe in '21 ... US Commerce Dept granted 2 TX comps permits to export oil condensate distilled during production ... DOE has no strategy to "proactively" overcome barriers to develop prototype of advanced nuke reactor. Could put project "on hold indefinitely", result in lagging US nuke industry: GAO ... Many coal mines won't be required to obtain Clean Air Act permits after Supreme Court rule on EPA CO2 rule ... Ohio helping develop "clean coal" power plant ... Rooftop solar leases scaring homebuyers. Solar adds avg. $25K value to home: LBNL study. But lease a liability to potential buyers. (Lack of understanding.) ... EON started $204M wood-fueled power plant in UK. 30Mw. (Really, $7/w for wood emissions.) But also hot water for local heat network online early '15 ... Japan to provide $17.6M for new trust fund in Asia Development Bank to promote low-carbon techs in region ... Isuzu, Euglena partnering to develop new kind of biodiesel using algae. Won't have to be mixed with fossil fuel. Goal of commercialization by '18 ... Voltalia (France) to raise up to $213M in share sale to finance wind projects in Brazil, France. They now have 291Mw - 11 projects - in construction in Brazil. Developing 120Mw more in 2 more projects. Also 2 10Mw projects in France ... UK's GIB 1B Pound fund to aid offshore wind industry recycle capital ... Greencoat UK Wind buying 2 wind farms for 96.2M Pounds ... France to sell 3.1% GDF Suez stake to finance Alstom investment ... Australia's clean/renewable share of power gen up to 14.76% in '13 from 13.14% in '12. Hydropower 55% of clean/ren gen ... Construction of Geronimo Energy's $350M N Dakota wind project delayed for year ... First Wind bought stake in 500Mw TX wind project ... Duke Energy to develop 52Mw solar project for Washington DC universities ... Ikaros Solar (Belgium) setting up JV with 2 Indian comps to develop 500Mw solar power next 5 yrs.