LEADERS IN DAVOS URGING QUICK ACTION BEFORE PROBLEMS FROM GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE BECOME IRREVERSIBLE. UN calling on govts to act .... US, India non-binding pledge to work together toward new climate pact. US to support India's $160B solar push .... Bloomberg, Paulson, Steyer report on global warming climate change risks to Midwest .... US Marine Fisheries Service released 5-yr plan to address global warming climate change .... Ocean research should focus on sea level risks, forecasting natural disasters, global warming climate change's impacts on marine ecosystems: NRC .... Folks using mosquito nets to catch fish could wipe out stressed fish populations in Africa .... Apollo Global Mgmt to raise fund to buy debt of troubled oil drillers. Blackstone expects to raise $4B for same purpose .... Hawaii utility seeks end to rooftop solar incentives .... Obama moved to protect Alaska refuge from oil/gas drilling .... N Dakota climate could be affected by dirty snow: research .... UK enviro agency pension fund pressuring oil comps to invest in clean/renewable energy .... Fed regulators ordering upgrades to pipeline that spilled oil into Yellowstone R. .... Brine from N Dakota spill reached Missouri R. .... W Va. town shut down water treatment system after diesel spill .... High levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in TX feedlots: study .... GMO mosquitos could be set loose in Florida .... Oklahoma town rejected oil/gas drilling ban .... New California partnership launched statewide PACE program .... US onshore oil/gas well count to fall from 37K in '14 to est. 27K by yearend. N Am drilling, well completion cost over $140B in '14. Est. $90B this year: Wood Mackenzie .... US consumers may save up to $125B in fuel costs in '15. Gas should avg. $2.35-2.45/gal .... Kern R. (Cal) heavy crude going for ~$33/bl. ~2/3 of Cal drilling rigs shut down in last 5 weeks .... Genel E (led by Tony "I just want my life back" Hayward) plans to increase production in Iraq Kurdistan 74% this year to 450Kb/d .... Gulf Keystone produced 40Kb/d last month in Iraq Kurdistan, to increase to 70Kb/d by '17 .... IMF forecast China GDP growth to fall to 6.8% this year .... Over 85M gal/yr cellulosic ethanol capacity started up in US in '14 .... Petrobras to make biofuels from fish waste .... Thailand cut B7 mandate in half. Low palm oil supply .... Scotland N Sea driller cutting 300 jobs .... Russia may be forced into oil/gas production cuts .... Gazprom says Ukraine combined debt, penalties now over $2B. Winter NG discount for Ukraine expires end of March. Naftogaz (Ukraine) claim that Gazprom owes them $6B (over Crimea) in Stockholm arbitration court. (And, O, by the way, their war has heated up in past week.) .... GDF Suez, partners contracted to research solar-powered desalination tech in UAE .... Abengoa (ABGB) to co-develop $130M solar desalination plant .... EC OK'd UK govt aid for 299Mw biomass combined heat and power plant .... London fund bought 40Mw waste wood-to-power plant project for $240M. Online in spring '17 .... OTMT got $137M of clean/renewable power contracts in Egypt .... US Supreme Court rejected BP exec's appeal over amount of oil released in '10 Gulf of Mex spill.