WORLD CAN'T GROW ENOUGH CROPS FOR FOOD AND ENERGY: REPORT. (PEEPS. WE HAVE TO STOP USING GROUND FOR FUELS.) .... Western govts must reconsider reliance on biofuels: World Resources Institute .... EPA taking on pest resistance to GMO corn. (Don't eat GMO corn, pards. Or anything GMO'd) .... Smog makes Beijing unlivable: mayor .... China banning new coal mines in east .... China 15Gw solar power target this year .... US Senate cutoff Keystone XL debate .... DOE 1st rules for gas fireplaces .... Kyocera says Japan solar demand slowing. (Suspension of grid access for new solar by utilities last year.) .... India to sell shares in Coal India .... Worldwide investment in petrol projects to be cut est. $100B - 15% - this year .... US commercial crude stocks - 407M bls - highest level in at least 80 years. Last 2-week 19M bl increase largest in near 30 yrs .... Chevron, BP JV to explore oil/gas in deep Gulf of Mex 180 miles south of US coast. BP selling large stakes to Chevron. Conoco also in area .... Sasol delaying $14B project in Louisiana to make diesel from NG .... Shell cutting spending $15B .... Hess halving rigs deployed in ND Bakken .... Global warming climate change driving poor folks in Kashmir to join militants: experts .... Fracking appears to have set off earthquake swarm in Alberta. Record 4.4 quake last week. Fracking induced similar magnitude in BC last year being investigated .... US crude production up 27Kb/d last week to 9.21M: EIA. (EIA usually too high.) .... US gasoline demand up 8% yoy .... GEVO share/warrants offer to raise $6.6M. Buying 4 more months. Big stock drop today. US Supreme Court days ago decided for GEVO in patent dispute .... US ethanol stock at 2-yr high. 20.6M bls .... OOIL teaming with Idaho National Lab (DOE) on algae biofuel production .... UK ethanol producers using more wheat than expected. (Um, people eat wheat. Hopefully not GMO'd.) .... Solar panels made with perovskite will be up to 40% cheaper, 50% more efficient than today's panels: Exeter study .... sPower bought near 162Mw of solar projects from Hecate Energy. 3 projects near Mojave. Groundbreak 3Q15, all online July '16 .... EDF Energy extending nuke power plant life 10 yrs .... Siva Power (Cal) getting $10M to hone its thin-film solar tech before building factory. Funds from city of Wuxi China, $3M from DOE SunShot. May be able to make panels for 40 cents/watt that could drop to 28 cents in 2 years. Seeks up to $100M for 300Mw/yr factory. Probable groundbreak next year .... PriveQ Capital (Canada) targeting alternative energy .... E.ON plans to sell 347Mw clean/ren assets .... Novozymes stock buyback program .... Mexican states want to attract $700M for wind power investment .... New tech, smoother routes helping UK air traffic services save airlines 1M tons CO2/yr .... 300M tons of plastics made globally in '13. Up 4% over '12. Recycling lagging. Millions of tons go to landfills, oceans every year. West Europe, N Am consumes 100Kg/yr/person of plastic. Asia 20Kg. ~4% of oil used to make plastic. 4% more to power plastic making. 26% of Euro plastic recycled in '12. 9% in US. Non-recyclable plastic packaging a growing trend. (We have to turn this around, pards. I walk my used plastic bags to Kroger for recycling.) .... Iowa utility lawsuit challenging how to stem fertilizer/animal waste flow into streams, rivers, oceans .... Science, costs main focus at EPA hearings on ozone rule .... US Senate 1 vote shy of permanently extending land preservation fund .... Shell plans to drill off Alaska this summer .... NRC urged to ease foreign investment rules .... Limited appetite for offshore Mass. wind power lease sale .... DOE $44K fine for EPA Hanford waste.