UNCHECKED GLOBAL WARMING could put 1-5% of Florida coast below sea level by 2100. 15-20% in Louisiana. New report from coalition of senior political, economic figures from left, right, independent including former Treasury secretaries including George Shultz. Entire states in US southeast, Corn Belt may lose much of their ag. Spending time outside in summers will become physically dangerous, throwing construction, tourism into turmoil. Trillions of dollars at risk. Colder states will gain ag. Ocean rise of 6-8 ft can't be ruled out. 40% of US folks live on coasts. (Why do we want to take the chance to see if all these predictions are wrong? The United States was born on a big risk. But ever since has worked on eliminating future risk and making life better for future generations. Let's keep doing that.) ... US Supreme Court decision yesterday (7-2) said EPA could regulate sources of GHGs as long as sources would already need permits for emitting conventional pollutants. Exempts millions of schools, apt bldgs, businesses, etc. EPA will be able to regulate sources responsible for 83% of emissions. The other 5-4 decision said an agency has no power to "tailor" legislation to policy goals by rewriting unambiguous statutory terms. Bottom line: EPA got almost everything it wanted. But hamstrung on mine emissions ... Mayors of US' largest cities willing to act on their own to combat global warming. Tired of lack of states', Fed progress. Conference of Mayors unanimously approved global warming resolution ... World Bank report making $1.8T case for battling global warming ... No-till farming (herbicides sprayed on fallow fields for weeds instead of plowing under) may help cool global warming: research ... U of Dayton divested largest endowment yet from fossil fuel comps ... Obama calls New Zealand "excellent partner" in intl global warming fight ... Climate change threatening US juice grape industry ... Australia PM hopes to repeal carbon tax with new bill ... EU on track to meet '20 energy efficiency goals, could raise '30 target ... Wisconsin Energy buying Integrys Energy's regulated el, gas, transmission biz for $5.7B ... Critics asking FERC to consider climate before issuing more LNG export approvals ... World EV market to grow from $1B in '09 to $14B by '16: Frost & Sullivan ... NREL boosting lith-ion batts with nanotubes, nanorods. Improves performance, life. Tech licensed to Nano Research ... Expert sees 3 probs for US solar industry near future. Trade war, utility rate design, ITC extension ... Lake Mead went down 6 ft in last month. Going down ~20 ft/yr. At present rate, 10 yrs until AZ loses 50% of water supply, Tucson 72% ... India raised ethanol blend mandate to 10% from 5% ... Brazil's biggest clean/renewable energy producer got OK for 4 more wind farms. 78.2Mw ... Worries rising over safeguarding coal ash dumps as old power plants close ... As tablets, flat-screen TVs, laptops, etc. increase, total power use drops: report ... Oil pipe breach in E Kansas coated houses with mist ... S Africa platinum miners' strike ended ... Researchers flagging neonicotinoid pesticides "serious risk" ... Enviro crime boosting syndicates, insurgents: UN ... UN rejected Australia plan to strip rainforest protections ... Almost 1/2 of new US wind projects not guaranteed to qualify for PTC ... Scotland banned wind power development in Natl Parks, scenic areas. 19% of country ... KKR bought 417M Euro stake in Acciona's clean power unit. Intends to make it yield comp ... Tanker with Kurd oil sold to Israel last Friday. Denied by Kurd Ministry. 3 more tankers now loading in Turkey. Kurd pipeline to Turkey 100Kb/d cap. Main 600Kb/d pipe runs through ISIL-held ground. Kurd oilfields now producing 120Kb/d. By yearend, pipe flow and production could be 400Kb/d. Meantime, extra oil trucked to Turkey ... Bidding on 4B bl oil field, 300Kb/d refinery in S Iraq put off indefintely. (A little preoccupied.) ... Russia, Iran to build at least 2 new nuke plants in Iran. Rosatom aims to grow order book to $100B this year, up 25% on year. New projects in Hungary, Kazakhstan, India, Iran ... Ethos Distributed Energy (Colo) buying Rev1 Renewables to expand clean energy portfolio ... Neste Oil (Finland) buying Renewable Algal Energy (US). Turns algae into diesel ... Toshiba supplying 1MW batt for energy storage pilot project in UK. Lithium-titanate batt. To be connected to grid to manage solar, wind power ... GS Yuasa (Japan) to build 1Mw solar station with 100Kwh energy storage system in Gunma. Online in Jan ... S Cal Edison launched 290Mw small-scale (3-20Mw) clean/ren energy tender ... Green Investment Bank (UK) to launch new 1B Pound fund to buy stakes in operational offshore UK wind farms ... NIBE (Sweden) $351M bid for US geothermal heat pump maker Water Furnace Renewable Energy.