CITIES' OZONE PROBLEM TO GET WORSE WITH GLOBAL WARMING: scientists. Air also will get more stagnant in areas like US east coast because Arctic warming faster than tropics, slowing air circulation. Plants may also produce more precursors to ozone. But warmer climate means more water vapor in atmos that mitigates ozone not created by human activity. Other pollutants like soot, other fine particles may also be affected by global warming ... DOE launched computer modeling program to see what could happen with collapse of Antarctic ice sheet over next 40 years, other climate challenges ... Drought risk rising for Australia ... Sea plankton found living OUTSIDE space station ... Columbia Law School got $3.5M donation to expand climate change law program ... Algae Systems (Nevada) pilot plant in Mobile Bay potentially to turn profit making diesel fuel from algae, charging municipalities for treating wastewater (sewage used to fertilize algae), selling carbon-heavy residue as fertilizer, generating credits for advanced biofuels. Removes more carbon from atmos than added when fuel burned. "Hydrothermal liquefaction" process. 550*F at 315lbs/sq in. System consumes pollutants like phosphorus, nitrogen responsible for algae bloom in Lake Erie, "dead zone" in Gulf of Mex. Japan comp invested $15M. Est. $80-$100M for commercial scale plant ... US Wind (Italy) won offshore Maryland wind auction with $8.7M bid. Up to 1.4Gw potential, 80K acres. Maryland has promised $1.7B, 20-year subsidy for 210Mw from the site funded by ratepayers ... UK pushing EU to keep open 1 of Europe's dirtiest (coal) power plants ... US opening bids for oil/gas development in west Gulf of Mex ... EIA to examine domestic costs of US exporting crude ... Water releases from Lake Powell to Lake Mead to increase 10% in next year. Upper Colorado R. Basin runoff 94% of avg in '14. 47% in '13, 45% in '12. Lake Mead projected to continue to fall in coming year ... Potential 1.1B BOE found offshore Ireland ... DTE Energy selected 84 new solar projects for Phase 2 of customer-owned pilot program. 2Mw total. 74 residential, 10 non-rez projects ... 3 new solar farms in N Carolina. 18.2Mw total ... Dominion Virginia Power coal plant on Elizabeth R. has near 1M tons of coal ash in dump that has leaked arsenic, other pollutants into groundwater for over a decade ... Jinko Solar to supply 40Mw for 8i project in Chile ... ReneSola supplying 5.4Mw for Welspun solar project in India ... Greencoat (UK) buying 51.6% stake in 4 Brit wind farms from AES for 90.6M Pounds. Total 87.5Mw ... Suzlon German unit to raise ~500M Euros in bond sale this year to fund takeover of Suzlon's global wind turbine servicing biz. They monitor, repair 25Gw of turbines worldwide for 500M Euros/yr, growing 20%/yr. Turbine servicing market to reach $13B by '20 ... JA Solar (JASO) improved 2Q14 earnings after capacity expansion ... Punjab plans 2Gw solar park ... Renewable Energy Group (REGI) sold 11% more biodiesel in 2Q14, earnings dropped to $10.8M on 13% drop in revs to $333M ... Amyris (AMRS) aiming for huge 2H14 ... Residents filed class action suit over cost overruns at Illinois "clean coal" project ... US sailors filed new suit against TEPCO over Fukushima radiation ... Belgium may permanently shut 2 nuke reactors.