Thursday, September 4, 2014

WHEN TERRORISTS TAKE OVER AIRPORTS, SHOULDN'T WE BOMB THE RUNWAYS RIGHT AWAY? ISIS took that Syria air base late last month. Now threatening strikes in Chechnya, Damascus with Russian jets. Libya terrorists took Tripoli airport last month and reportedly moved airliners out. ... Back to rest of world: water wells have begun to run dry in central California ... China, India leaders to skip UN climate summit later this month ... Conventional wisdom about CO2 release from permafrost may be wrong: researchers ... Australia GHG emissions up since carbon tax repeal ... Kentucky Attorney General joining 11 other state AGs fighting proposed EPA power plant emissions rule ... Enviros suing after Kentucky passed new water quality standards for mines ... Tuscan vineyards damaging environment with pesticides: govt report ... Japan going forward with scaled-down whaling program ... Canada beekeepers filed class-action suit against neonicotinoid makers ... Perdue removing nearly all antibiotics from chicken hatcheries ... EPA to target $12M for Lake Erie algal blooms ... Hunters still shooting radioactive boars in German forests ... EU's 131 nuke reactors avg. age 30 years. France's nuke agency to make final decision in '18 or '19 to extend fleet life to 50 years for est. 55B Euros ... Australia to sign uranium export deal with India. Exports to Russia banned until further notice over Ukraine ... Tesla (TSLA) chose Reno, Nevada for battery gigafactory ... Hybrid, EV sales down this year vs. '13: report. BMW EV sales 70% more than Tesla last 4 months ... Solar City (SCTY) to open 20 new ops centers in 7 states ... Sun Edison (SUNE) to supply Chile copper mine with 69.5Mw solar power ... Chevron finalized sale of its clean, renewable power division ... Siemens, partner OK'd to start work on $510M turbine production, installation plant in England. Plans include blade plant ... BayWa bought full rights to 80Mw US wind farm ... BP found grossly negligent in Gulf of Mex disaster ... Costco to pay over $300K for violating Clean Air Act. To install ~$2M of air pollution control tech ... Nigeria oil exports expected to fall to 1.83Mb/d in Oct from 1.94M in Sept ... Water scarcity hindering China shale gas production. Largest resources in world ... POET-DSM started up 20M gal/yr cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa. 1st commercial-scale plant in US. ~$250M invested. $105M DOE loan guarantee made in '11. Corn cob, stover feedstock. POET plans to produce up to 3.5B gal/yr cellulosic ethanol by '22 through its plants, licensing tech. RFS target 16B gal/yr by '22 ... E15 ethanol reduces cancer, smog, CO2: study. 6.6% less cancer risk vs. E10 ... Protec Fuel opening 28 E15, E85 stations in US south, southeast ... Brazil Senate approved 27.5% ethanol mandate. 25% now. Also increases biodiesel mix to 6% from 5% ... Africa's total power gen capacity 147Gw. About same as Belgium's.

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