US DROPPED TARIFFS OF 26-78% ON CHINA SOLAR PANELS. 11-27% on Taiwan solar cells. Also antisubsidy duties of 27-49% for China modules. Still ITC decision on it next month .... AZ, CA, NV agreed to add up to 3M acre-feet of water to Lake Mead by '20 by reducing water withdrawals. Mead now ~10 feet from where Feds would declare shortage, rationing. 3M ac-ft would add 30 feet. 14-yr drought in Colorado R. basin .... Drought has left Cal 11T gallons drier: NASA. 17M Olympic pools of water would eliminate drought. (At least they're getting some desal plants built.) .... US High Plains Aquifer in steep decline: USGS .... Obama extended drilling ban for Bristol Bay in Alaska .... China plans major slowdown of new coal-to-gas projects .... Minnesota OK'd $250M solar park development .... Cuomo banned fracking in NY Marcellus .... Louisiana reopened state Gulf waters to fishing post BP spill .... Japan regulator OK'd nuke power restart .... Brit Columbia to proceed with $7.6B hydropower project on Peace R. .... Turkey stopped US corn imports over GMO issues .... 3rd NG deposit found in Israel's Mediterranean. Up to 5TCF .... ET Solar unit to build 40Mw project in Israel .... Sun Edison (SUNE) closed $117M fund with Barclay's Citi, TERP for solar investment .... Edison to build 180Mw combined-cycle NG plant in Egypt .... Nordex to supply 36Mw wind project in Finland .... Southern planning 131Mw solar project in Georgia .... National Grid planning 16Mw solar project in Mass. 19 locations. June completion .... Acciona to build $500M of wind, solar in Chile ....IFC $300M loan for 215Mw wind project in Panama .... IDB OK'd $125M for clean power projects in Uruguay.