'14 SUMMER WARMEST GLOBALLY ON RECORD: NOAA .... Global clean energy investment up to $64.8B in 3Q14: Mercom. Solar sector saw $9.8B investment, up from $6.8B in 2Q .... Study warning of sweltering "grim future" for E. China .... Climate change leads to wider temp difference between night, day: study .... Pentagon: climate change will intensify global conflict. Calls climate change "immediate risk" to national security, released military plan .... Near-pristine lake in Japan threatened by climate change, invasive species .... Study shows increase of CO2 in atmos lower than predicted because of plants .... Nobel winner for economics argued necessity to reach binding agreement on climate change regs as soon as possible before countries try to get better leverage for carbon target negotiations .... G. W. Bush's 1st EPA administrator praised Obama admin's rollout of proposed rule for reducing carbon emissions from power plants .... China acknowledged their unfair clean power pricing. To sharply lower (by 50%) tariffs, export credits, low interest loans by '20. Looking at building China solar powgen cap to 100Gw by '20, wind power to 200Gw. (Not in stone yet.) .... New liquid-solid mixture may lower costs of carbon capture: research .... AEP challenging net metering plan in Ohio high court .... Austin utility seeks natgas power plant despite city's zero-carbon goal .... Statoil shed remaining stake in Caspian megaproject .... 4 breakthroughs have brought cost of algae biocrude down to $7.50/gal. 3 roadblocks remain to get it to $3/gal goal .... National Oilheat Research Alliance: B20 blend OK for heating oil .... 2nd Valero ethanol plant in week caught fire in Indiana .... Argentina biodiesel exports soaring after govt cut export taxes in May to 11% from 21%. Exports could double last year's 700K tons .... Keene U researchers studying toxicology of biodiesel particulates .... Purdue U researchers developed new form of plastic that could revolutionize how energy is used, stored. "Radical polymer." Being tested in transparent solar cells; light, flexible batts; consumer electronics. 10x more conductive, simpler to manufacture than current tech .... New China coal import tax could spell disaster for Australia miners. New duty between 3-6%. Australia now supplies 25% of China imports .... Sun Energy 1 began install of Jinko solar panels in Duke Energy project at 3 NC institutions. 20Mw 1st phase of 52Mw. All online in '15 .... E.ON getting up to 4% more power from 283 GE 1.5Mw wind turbines using GE software platform .... Solaria (Spain) to supply 20Mw solar buildout in Uruguay. Components made in Uruguay .... Solar Power (SOPW) to build another 30Mw project in Inner Mongolia. Already building 20Mw solar there .... Altus Power getting $125M from Franklin Square for commercial, industrial solar projects .... Takees to invest up to $28M to build 6Mw biomass power plant in Japan .... TenKsolar (US solar developer) getting $8M in finance round .... Electrosul (Brazil) borrowing $34M for Brazil wind, solar projects .... Green City Energy, Arkolia to build 34Mw of solar in France .... NTPC (India) to invest $815M in 750Mw solar plant .... Jiangsu Linyang $287M share sale to fund solar projects.