EL NINO STILL EXPECTED FOR US WEST COAST, but won't bring heavy rains Cal needs to end drought: US Climate Prediction Center. (Though 2 hurricane edges didn't hurt.) Cal cities cutting water use ... Cal, Japan signed pact to co-op on water, high-speed rail, clean cars development ... NJ may lose up to $500M from leaving cap-and-trade program: enviros ... Over 400 dead from India, Pakistan floods ... USDA $518M to upgrade rural electric co-ops ... Japan researchers developing new membrane that can trap GHGs, let clean air through ... Solar Power (SOPW) to buy over 26Mw of solar projects in Greece. Also buying Sinsin Renewable Investment for $91.8M ... Norway losing to Sweden in $6B wind power boom ... DOE has approved 45 aps to export LNG. If all get built, they will export 49BCF/d. US uses 71.3BCF/d, over 26TCF/d (and produces about the same) ... The Fed is printing $118M/hour 24/7. (Just thought it worthy mentioning.) ... Boston U. faculty, students calling for fossil fuel divestment ... EIA raised projections for oil use in '40. Lowered potential for clean vehicles ... Fed judge tossed out enviro challenge to BLM oil/gas lease sale in Nevada ... Iberdrola spent ~$13M to renovate 45 of 92 small hydropower plants in Spain over last 3 years ... 99% drop in solar panel prices over last 40 years. 75% of that has come since '08 ... Enviva spending $214M to build 2 wood pellet plants in N Carolina by '17 ... China's oil demand going up faster than expected: EIA ... U Cal Davis, China Automotive Tech, Research Center collaberating to help speed commercialization of clean cars in China, US ... Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL) to sell 1.4Mw FC power plant at U of Bridgeport to NRG Energy ... Russia to build 8 new power plants in Iran. Also to help rebuild 4 old plants. Power grids of Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia to be interconnected ... China's polysilicon sales up 145% in 1H14 over last year to $1.6B. 62K metric tons ... Broadwind Energy (BWEN) got $14M order for wind towers from US wind turbine maker. (Not named or priced.) ... India lender, power trader jointly financing clean energy projects for India ... Trina Solar to supply 70Mw of solar panels for Chile project. Delivery starting this month ... Google to invest $145M in 60Mw Sun Edison solar project ... Fed rules/regs took $2T bite out of US econ in '12: NAM. (At least some of that went to companies for pollution equipment, etc. It's not a dead drain, NAM. Or clarify. Is this net econ drain? Or political dribble?) ... Californians support $7.5B water bond 2:1: poll ... Montana lawmakers kept renewable energy standard ... Russia developing array of new nuke, conventional weapons. Tested new IBM.