ISIS OVERRAN IRAQ ARMY BASE NEAR BAGHDAD. Executed 300 soldiers: report .... TGIF .... UK joined coalition vs. ISIS .... Turkey to take more active role vs. ISIS .... Russia mulling law to seize foreign assets .... Iran nuke talks "faltering" amid no progress .... Worker at Oklahoma food processing plant allegedly beheaded by fellow worker who then was moving on to another worker before being subdued .... 6.2 Alaska quake .... Up to 67Gw of solar power could be installed in US Midwest at prices competitive with utility retail rates without subsidies by '22 .... JASO Solar (JASO) cells now 20% efficient .... Sunpower (SPWR) to build 16Mw plant at U Cal Davis .... Ontario upgraded incentives for comps to replace energy guzzling equipment .... Cameron supports future shutdown of existing UK coal power plants .... Microsoft's in-house carbon fee helps reduce footprint .... Christie vows to shun carbon trading. (Um, I wonder who's financing him.) .... API issued crude-by-rail guidelines .... Low income smart meter plan in TX .... Vecoplan opened world's largest R&D facility in Germany for mechanical recycling techs .... Southwest Air contracting Red Rock Biofuels for 3M gal/yr bio jet fuel. Forest residue feedstock .... Maverick Synfuels intro'd small-scale modular methane-to-methanol plant. Can be located at methane source .... Brazil to increase biodiesel blend to 7% Nov 1. From 6%. Also raising ethanol blend to 27.5% from 25% .... Ethanol production margins down to $.15/gal from $.50 month ago .... Statoil, partners made natgas discovery in Barents Sea. 30-120M bls recoverable oil equivalent. "Non commercial" .... Siemens entering oil field services biz with $7.6B buy of Dresser-Rand .... DOE spending $2M to explore ways to build taller wind turbine towers to capture more wind .... Minnesota eyeing solar arrays along highways .... GAO updated projected coal power plant closures because of proposed EPA rule. ~13% of coal gen cap already retired since '12 or planned for retirement by '25,. WV, OH, PA 38% planned closures .... NuGen Capital completed over 10Mw of solar projects (4) in Mass. BYD panels .... Ukraine approved 1st delivery of nuke power plant fuel from Westinghouse .... Solar City (SCTY), Next Era Energy among largest winners in NY $94M solar grant awards. NY helping to fund 142 sites. Will increase state's solar cap 68%. $375M private investment for over 214Mw. 24 NYC public schools to get solar. Last year for awards .... Scotland approved 60Mw Banks Renewables wind farm. 4Mw turbines .... CalSTRS mulling $3.7B investment in clean power .... Nordic Investment Bank issued $500M green bond .... SCE $50M battery power storage project .... Arkansas Republican candidate: GOP Senate would block EPA rules. (Remember, Republicans, Nixon started EPA.) .... Water discovered on Neptune-sized planet 124 light years away .... Most of Earth's water older than sun: research .... Nebraska US representative: Keystone XL pipe will be built after we change presidents .... NPS approved plan to shoot deer at 3 civil war battlefields. (South or North?) .... Sweatpants full of turtles betrayed smuggler .... Alaska officials tested 2 Bering Sea seals covered in "dark, oily" substance .... EPA approved carbon injection permit for Illinois ethanol project .... Climate change growing priority at Homeland Security: official .... California tightened restrictions for grape, almond pesticide .... Mass killing of llama-like guamaco on Tierra del Fuego .... Onward and upward, pards.