"SEVERE, PERVASIVE, IRREVERSIBLE" IMPACTS ON PEOPLE, SPECIES, 27 ECOSYSTEMS if we continue to pump GHGs into our atmos: pending UN report .... Drop in Amazon "greenness" raising concerns about its future as a carbon sink .... Over 75 national, state, enviro, public health. community groups urging EPA to set stricter standards on toxic air pollution from refineries .... Bunge announced zero-deforestation commitment .... Risk of severe Eurasian winters doubles with global warming .... EPA sent coal ash rule - 4 years in making - to White House .... Majority of Americans see nuke power as climate solution: nuke industry poll .... Big US banks won't finance Great Barrier Reef coal port .... 1st nuke plant restart OK'd by local Japan town .... Gulf of Mex BP spill deposited oil in "mosaic" pattern on Gulf floor: study .... Scientists looking at fetal anomalies' ties to oil/gas drilling .... Floating LNG terminal in Lithuania strong signal for energy independence from Russia. LNG from Statoil. 1st shipment 60MCM. To reach 540MCM/yr - 1/5 Lithuania demand. Lithuania spending $568M on it .... BP earnings down 18% on oil prices .... Mich, Wisc fighting over who pays almost $100M/yr to keep small coal powerplant on Lake Superior shore running .... Shell asking for 5 more years on Alaska Arctic leases .... Weak spots in DOE cyberdefense: IG .... NY utility halfway to completing $1B "hardening" plan .... Ameren moving away from popular energy efficiency program .... Louisiana ethane cracker project to move ahead with higher $8.1B price tag .... Alevo has new batt tech. Retrofitting N. Carolina cigar factory with $1B to make "GridBank" 2Mw batts. Inorganic electrolyte elims risk of combustion, explosion. Massively reduces effects of charging cycles. Up to 40K charges with no signs of increased internal resistance. 1Gw/yr production starts next year. Could reduce up to 30% of energy "waste" on the grid .... Onward and upward, pards.