MERCURY LEVELS IN OCEANS tripled since Industrial Revolution: report ... Majority of Americans would support a carbon tax: new polls ... CO2 capture from air could be global warming climate change solution: Columbia U scientist ... China added 3.3Gw solar in 1H14. 2.3Gw utility-scale. Double 1H13. Now 23Gw total, near 7x of Australia (world's highest solar radiation per square meter) ... Beijing ordered official vehicles off roads to help clean sky ... Climate aid to Vanuatu cut ... California fighting illegal water use for cannabis. Also, cities hesitant to clamp down on water wasters. And water rights selling for record prices ... Prices for future delivery of natgas on Brit market down over 30% over past year. Balmy winter tamped demand. Delinkage from oil prices. New clean/renewable power helping. Gazprom took 15-20% price cut for natgas with Eni. Next step for similar cuts from Algeria, Libya ... US lags behind much of world in investing in Africa power development ... Oklahoma oil/gas drillers sued over quakes ... India to start building $8B grid upgrade this year to handle increasing clean power. German development bank lending $334M initially. Possibly up to $1B. India clean power gen to double by '22 to 72Gw ... Fire closed 115Kb/d Kansas oil refinery. Out for month ... Near 4% of world's oil production offline from conflict, Iran sanctions ... EIA: in year ended Mar '14, cash from ops of 127 top oil/gas comps $568M. Spent $110M more. (Obviously, still a money losing deal covered by cheap borrowing.) ... Hamburg setting out to become car-free in 20 years. (Ich bein ein Hamburger) (Excuse me Goiman.) ... Midwest farmland prices up 12.5% since '00. Partly from biofuels crops demand ... DOE helping 13 carbon capture, storage projects ... Russia consortium deal for up to $3B to develop Zimbabwe platinum mining, processing. Initial $500M ... Ebola outbreak threatens Nigeria oil production ... WV chemical storage tank site exploded. Leaking ... Brookings study: most cost efficient clean power: nuke ... Sunnova raised $110M to expand ops, customers. Raised $145M in June ... Contour Global buying 122.6Mw of wind power in Brazil for $79M ... NRG Energy splitting solar biz into 2 units ... Tidal Energy, Eco2 deployed 1st full-scale tidal device in Wales ... Fisker to resume car production in Finland after fixing bugs.