70% CLEAN/RENEWABLE POWER BY '50 DOABLE WITH "INTERNET OF ENERGY" .... ADHD symptoms linked to prenatal exposure to dirty air: study .... China used more cement in 3 yrs than US in 100 (!) .... Costa Rica power mix 100% clean/renewable 75 straight days. (Leading the world.) .... US Supreme Court appears split over EPA Clean Power Plan. Should have anticipated compliance costs? .... Americans less worried about environment: poll. (Americans do tend toward sluffing off in thinking.) .... Govt program following fish caught by slaves going to US, Euro seafood marts .... Funding tied to climate goals a way toward sustainable world. Orienting cities to people, not cars another. Product packaging 1 more .... Japan to use climate fund to back power plant projects abroad. (THEY NEED THEM IN JAPAN FOR GODSSAKES!) .... UK Green Bank, govt dept to lend $298M for pilot low-carbon projects in Africa, India. (Ah yea, the old dominion.) GIB also investing in 12.3Mw waste-to-power project in Scotland .... Brazil plans pollution limit plan before Oct. They've cut CO2 41% from '05, plan 36-39% further by '20. (That's doing waht we call really well.) .... Odors, discoloration in Flint Mich tapwater since switch to Flint R. from Lake Huron. (What the hell is that about?!) .... Fed advisors calling for less red meat in American diet after 1st-ever enviro review .... Climate change "biggest threat" to conserving 600K public acres in UK: charity .... 144 countries have established national plans to expand clean/renewable power. Near 100 have set specific targets, incentives: World Bank report .... Sauds pumping 10Mb/d, up 350K from Feb .... Ukraine plans to stop buying Gazprom NG April 1 when interim deal expires. Maybe negotiating ploy; but new, cheaper NG from Europe .... Total looking for China finance to get around sanctions to build $27B LNG terminal in Russia Arctic .... Sun Edison (SUNE) buying 1K energy storage systems from Imergy for rural India microgrids. 30-120Kwh flow batts using recycled vanadium from enviro waste .... Dean Foods to deploy 64 CNG-powered Vs, private fuel station from Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE). (T. Bone Pickens.) .... EV lith-ion batt packs now $500/Kwh, cost down 60% since '10. Could drop to $175 in 5 yrs: Navigant. $100 range needed to make EVs competitive without subsidies .... PNNL project to use algae to extract CO2 from atmos. Going for $1 worth of CO2/200K pounds of air .... Joule plans to build 1st plant in '17. "Solar renewable fuels." 15K gal diesel/acre/yr, 25K gal eth. Modified cyanobacteria + CO2 + sunlight + nutrients --> transportation fuels .... Pakistan has world's fastest growing nuke program. Enough material to make 110-120 warheads: US think tank. Over 45 countries looking to start nuke program: World Nuke Ass. Next to join nuke power club: UAE, Turkey, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Vietnam, Bangladesh .... 4 Japan utilities decided to permanently decommish 5 old reactors .... Near 1/2 global nuke power cap - est. 200 reactors - heading for retirement next 25 yrs: IEA .... Transatomic Power working on small meltdown-proof molten salt reactors. Terra Power (Gates) working on travelling wave reactor. NuScale already got $2.7M from DOE to help their design .... Hollysys (HOLI) to provide distributed control system for 2 1Gw ultra-supercritical coal power units in China. Online late '16 .... New 25Mw solar plant online in Australia. Eventual 102Mw for $290M .... Enel started on 74Mw Oklahoma wind project. $130M. Online by '16. Coop to buy power .... Greenleaf to buy 37.5Mw waste-to-power plant in Connecticut .... Vestas supplying 36Mw Denmark wind project. 3.3Mw turbines, 4Q delivery .... Jinko 104Mw, $188M Utah solar project .... 40Mw wastewood biomass plant under construction in Brit. 270K metric tons wastewood/yr .... Over $533M VC/PE invested in energy efficiency 1Q15 so far .... Nordex 111Mw S Africa wind deal .... US approved VA utility's plan to build 2 test offshore wind turbines .... Trains, trucks must communicate to avoid accidents: experts.