PHYSICIST OFFERING $30K PRIZE for proof refuting man-made global warming ... Leading UK medical group voted for fossil fuel divestment ... Satellite to monitor CO2 in atmos launched today by NASA ... EPA proposed update of standards for air pollutants from muni solid waste landfills ... Virginia created commission to plan ways to protect state from ocean rise, other likely effects of global warming ... Dramatic decline in Caribbean coral reefs from local stressors, not climate change: scientists ... N Dakota moving to capture 90% of flared natgas by '20 ... Colorado court says anti-fracking ballot measures can advance ... SPI Solar (Cal) to build 50Mw project in China ... Hackers finding open back door to grids through clean/renewable power plants ... NREL using supercomputer to see how enzymes break down cellulose ... Ukraine announced floating LNG terminal run by TX comp will start ops April '15 offshore Odessa. Potential 5BCM/yr capacity. Another onshore LNG project being revived. Could process 10BCM/yr. Problems: Turkey allowing LNG passage through Bosporus, finance ... U of Cambridge team broke 11-year-old temperature record for superconductivity (not much). Used gadolinium barium copper oxide ... IKEA near-doubled rooftop solar array on MD distribution center. Added 2.2Mw for total 4.9Mw ... DOI Aug 19 auction of 80K-acre site offshore MD for wind power development. Auctions off Mass, NJ later this year ... Public Service Enterprise Group unit to buy 13Mw TX solar project from juwi Solar for $22M ... UK Green Investment Bank fund investing $5.5M in 2 plants to gen power from farm waste in N Ireland. Local comp providing 3.2M Pounds more investment ... Hitachi started up 12.7Mw solar plant in Japan. NTT started up 6.5Mw solar plant in same 28.4Mw park ... Vestas to supply 166Mw of 2Mw wind turbines for MN project. Deliveries in 4Q15 ... "Alternate" energy mutual funds up avg. 28% in '14. "Green" ETFs up avg. 37.6% this year ... Philippines comp investing $200M in 70Mw of solar, wind projects in Bataan. Online in '16 ... Solar World (SRWRF) asking Commerce Dept to investigate China hacking ... Lattice Power (China LED maker) raised $80M in D round ... Europe Investment Bank to provide 150M Euro loan framework for clean/ren power gen, climate change mitigation schemes in Chile ... Next Era Energy Partners closed IPO at $442.7M ... Siemens, ABP filed for permit on 310M Pound wind turbine, rotor blade factory in UK ... UK solar industry deployed 1.47Gw in 1H14, more than all of '13. Now leading solar market in Europe ... Nevada grid regulator to lead development of "real time" western power market ... Electronic devices waste $80B/yr: IEA ... Miners illegally dredged Idaho river to protest EPA rules.