RUSSIA STARTING TO USE SAME LINE ON BALTICS that it used for Ukraine .... New NATO leader offering olive branch to Russia .... Turkey to fight ISIS, wants Assad gone .... Iraq Air Force accidentally delivered food, ammo to ISIS fighters .... Toxic caterpillar population exploding in London .... Last winter polar vortex took down every type of equipment on power plants, forced over 17Gw generation capacity to shut down at one point: report .... US natgas increasing supply can match winter demand even if polar vortex hits again: report .... Toxic emissions found at TX playgrounds near natgas drilling sites .... Oil, rail industries want up to 7 years to retrofit tank cars, 3 more years to retro older cars .... 2x as many wild horses in US west as land can sustain: feds. (What's wrong with horse meat? Or can we sell or donate the horses around world?) .... Baker Hughes today starts disclosure of all chems it uses in fracking .... Energy industry's share of methane leaks down in latest EPA GHG inventory .... Alaska crude shipped offshore. 1st time in 10 years .... Germany's clean/renewable power gen topped that from lignite 1st 9 months of '14. 27.7% v. 26.3%. Wind 9.5%, biomass 8.1%, solar 6.8% .... Biomethane from wastewater treatment plant fueling UK homes. Sewage sludge also fed to anaerobic digesters for more NG, el .... DOE launched $25M funding to overcome 2 key barriers for algae biofuels .... Savannah River Site began coal ash landfill cleanup of 1.3M cubic yards of ash .... New NREL software for wind industry simulates range of variables for wind farms to maximize output, efficiency .... Cal Gov signed demand response law. PUC now has clear direction to consider demand response, not just fossil fuel investments, in planning how to balance, ensure reliability for state grid .... Sun Ed, Europe Bank for Reconstruction/Development, OPIC $50M project finance for 28.8Mw solar plant in Jordan. Online late '15 .... Abengoa 1.4B Euro syndicated loan to refinance debt, finance projects .... World Bank, other agency OK'd $519M for 350Mw of concentrated solar in Morocco. 160Mw project already under construction at site .... Sask Power (Canada) to open 1st carbon-capture/storage coal power plant. To store 90% of emissions. $1.2B for 110Mw. (Very, very expensive.) .... Solarpark (Spain) started up 25Mw solar plant in Chile. To power mining comp. Also currently bldg 19Mw solar plant in Peru online by yearend .... Brazil comp to invest $82M to build its 1st solar panel plant. Online by '17 .... Reliance Power to invest $8.12B across solar, hydro, coal power .... NEO Solar sold 22.5Mw of Taiwan solar farms .... RGS Energy moving away from 200Kw+ solar projects .... India to install 1st offshore wind farm - 100Mw .... Rising costs forced utility to scrap tidal project off Washington state .... IG calling for "immediate action" to make nuke waste site safer.