'14 WAS EARTH'S HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR LAND, OCEAN SURFACES: NASA AND NOAA .... Global solar installs may reach over 63Gw in '15. Would be ~22% above '14 .... Russia abandoning petrodollar, opening up $88B sovereign wealth fund to convert it to rubles. Other oil/gas exporters also pulling petrodollars, other dollar-denominated assets out of world financial markets. Global petrodollar exports went negative in late '14. 1st time since late '90's .... GHG emissions from ag now higher than deforestation, land use change combined: study. Emissions from ag still on rise .... Des Moines Iowa to sue neighbor counties for high farm fertilizer runoff into rivers used for Des Moines drinking water .... Sea levels rising faster than previously thought in recent decades. Melting ice sheets the culprit .... Judge: BP dumped 3.2M bls in '10 Gulf spill. Max fine can be $13.7B. US sought $18B .... Sun Ed (SUNE) raised $590M to buy First Wind .... TERP proposing $800M offer of senior notes, priced 12M shares of common at $29.33 .... Solar Power (SOPW) buying 4.3Mw of solar projects in Italy .... Repsol abandoning oil/gas exploration off Canary Islands. $350M exploration had projected 110Kb/d production in long run. On to Angola .... US to help Bulgaria depend less on Russia for 85% of its natgas, 100% of its uranium supply .... There's time to lessen impacts of industrial fishing in oceans: study .... W Virginia Ed board reversed changes to climate change curriculum .... Schlumberger cutting 9K jobs .... Oilfield equipment comps to benefit from proposed methane emissions rules .... Shell/Qatar scrapped plan to build $6B petrochem plant. Unprofitable at current oil prices .... Aramco delayed plans for $2B clean fuels plant at its largest oil refinery .... FERC pushing utilities to adopt standards for cyber, physical security .... Gamesa sold 10Mw solar plant in Spain for 40M Euros .... Windworks (WWPW) sold 3Mw German wind farm - one 3Mw Vestas turbine - to Swiss fund for ~$6M. (WWPW up 62% this morning.) .... Yingli started on 20Mw plant in Xinjiang. Online 2Q15 .... EDF says it can extend life of French nuke plants up to 20 yrs .... Solar City (SCTY) launched homebuilder solar program on US east coast .... Brazil wind power finance up 83% in '14 to $2.5B. 2.58Gw installed .... Statkraft issued $429M of bonds .... $2.7B of solar projects to be unveiled in Mideast, N Africa (MENA) in '15 .... World Bank $31M clean power initiative for Kosovo .... Abengoa (ABGB) $31/share set for new public offer .... Public interest up in global warming climate change, but still low priority: poll.