WORLD'S CO2 EMISSIONS UP 2% IN '12. DOWN FROM 3.8% AVG OVER PAST DECADE .... 41% of amphibians on Earth face extinction. 26% of mammal species. 13% of birds. Sumatra elephant, Amur leopard, mountain gorilla critically endangered. Reindeer disappearing worldwide .... EPA passing on hazardous designation for coal ash in 1st ever standards .... Enviros suing EPA over failure to stem stormwater runoff .... EPA taking enforcement action v. 61 comps over lead .... EPA corrected rule on pesticide export labeling .... Obama set guidelines for climate review in agency decisions .... IS fight to take at least 3 years: US general .... No new US sanctions for Russia over Ukraine .... Congress eliminated office supposed to shepherd Alaska NG pipeline project .... KfW (Germany) to loan $123M for Chile's 1st concentrated solar project. $1.2B, 110Mw plant Abengoa (ABGB) building. EC providing 15M Euros through Latin Am Investment Facility program. Sunniest desert on Earth. Online in '17 .... Duke, other utilities in S Carolina preparing solar development plan on heels of state's new net metering agreement .... Sweden power bill hike for nuke decommissioning .... Enviro, health costs of EVs using coal power plug may be up to 80% worse than gasoline-powered vehicles .... BNDES OK'd $116M for Abengoa cellulosic ethanol plant in Brazil. ~17M gal/yr .... 9 more sugarcane-to-ethanol crushing plants to be mothballed in Brazil over oil prices .... Duke buying 20Mw solar farm in N Carolina from Geenex, ET Solar .... EBRD 23.8M Euros toward 39Mw wind project in Poland. 68M Euros total cost. Online by '16 .... Centrica sold 50% stake in 90Mw wind farm offshore Ireland to Dong for $78M .... Rame Energy to build 2.5Mw solar plant in Chile for $6.4M. Online by '16 .... BNDES OK'd $222M loan for 4 sugar/ethanol plants in Brazil .... Near $4.5B of clean power project finance transactions announced this week .... Kong Sun to build over 300Mw solar in China .... EU: oil sands not "dirty" fuel. Ratification vote next year .... Africa Development Bank 176M Euros for 350Mw solar project in Morocco .... Pattern Energy (PEGI) expanded credit facilities to $350M from $145M .... Acciona turned on 94Mw solar plant in S Africa. 250 hectares, 470 solar trackers, 319.6K PV modules .... Alerion Clean Power to issue 110M Euro bond.