IRAN GETTING AROUND WEST SANCTIONS with natgas condensates exports. (Do we want them to have nuke weapon capability or not?) ... Historic rain, floods in Detroit ... US House Republicans urge end to wind power tax credits. (I thought they were on holiday. Yet they still want to stop cleaning air or keep climate stable. Go figure. Yep, I know, not just reporting news here. Comment too. Sorry if it sticks in your craw the wrong way.) ... China urging folks to walk, ride bikes to cut pollution. (I'm already there. Though sometimes ride in diesel bus or a friend's car.) ... China offshore wind investment failing to match expectations. Barely grown since Siemens opened turbine blade plant in China in '10 ... ~22% of world el production now clean/renewable: REN21. Up 8% in '13. 56% of new powergen installed in '13 - 1,560Gw. China, US, Brazil, Canada, Germany top 5. Excluding hydropower, China, US, Germany, Spain, Italy on top. 144 countries have clean/ren targets. 138 have support policies. Djibouti, Scotland, Tuvalu have 100% clean/ren by '20 targets. (I know, should have been headline story. But there's this goddam war going on in the Mideast skewing up everything.) ... Oil/gas well flaring now growing problem in Permian Basin. (Folks, this spews hydrogen sulfide toxics into the air besides methane which is how many times worse than CO2 for global warming, let alone the waste of the natgas. God help the fossil fuel industry people to do it right.) ... Kellogg to take stronger action against illegal palm oil. (Yay.) ... Former landfill now a microgrid to protect VT town from big grid failure. $10M ... Global warming climate change changes in food security for critters forces migration. (Including peoples.) ... Sequoias in California at risk from global warming climate change. Great Barrier Reef "highly threatened": reports ... Arctic permafrost lakes are long-term carbon sinks, not carbon sources: study ... Europe's green energy rules cost UK $156B. (Assumed time period: so far.) ... Repsol OK'd to drill offshore Canary Islands. (Is that where half the island could fall into Atlantic and wipe out coasts on both sides? Like the canary in the coal mine.) ... Court threw out EPA permit for California power plant. (All I got so far. Enviro win.) ... Oil spilled in ship wreck in Mississippi River (down near New Orleans I think) ... FERC ordered California utility to install power storage ... IEA shrank predictions for oil demand. (All I have so far.) ... Suniva began construction on 200Mw solar module factory in Mich. Their 2nd factory after 1st in Georgia. Up to 350 jobs with scale up ... Construction start on 36.4Mw hydropower plant in Iowa. $46M for generators, turbines. Can gen up to 55Mw depending on water. Online in '18 ... Falling biodiesel feedstock prices on bumper US soybean crop ... Corn use for ethanol in US likely to top 5B bushels. Higher ethanol demand, more exports, lower imports, rebuilding stocks after '13 drought. (I still hate use of food for fuel. How about you? Though corn, soy GMO'd anyway and unetable if you care for your health.) ... Well, onward and upward pards. Tally ho. Happy trails. Make peace and love.