GLOBAL UTILITY-SCALE PV SOLAR ADDED 14.2GW IN '14, DOUBLING '13. Total capacity now 36Gw: Wiki-solar .... Net US el generation from clean/renewable sources up 11% in '14 v. '13 (sans hydro, nuke). Solar more than doubled. Wind up 8.3%, biomass up 5.7%, geothermal up 5.4%, nuke up 1%, coal up .3%. Natgas down .3%, hydropower down 3.7%. Net from all up .7% .... Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected: study .... 97% support Ontario plan to restrict bee-killing pesticides. Neonicotinoids .... Senate Republicans urging NRC to restore established order. Integrate any remaining post-Fukushima safety items into ongoing work, prioritize work according to safety .... National Marine Fisheries Service may extend ban on cod fishing in Gulf of Maine to save overfished, climate-stressed cod. Populations plunged further. (Don't eat cod please.) .... US clean industry job growth slowed in '14 to near 47K added. Upticks from Tesla, solar .... Construction of Tesla batt plant in Nevada delayed: report .... BP $12B deal to develop Egyptian natgas .... 11 Libyan oil fields not operating because of thefts, destruction by "unidentified armed groups" .... 3M moving toward sustainable logging .... Hermosa Beach voters rejected proposed 34 oil wells in center of town .... Researchers developing method to trace methane emissions to sources .... Canadians want increased govt action on reducing GHG emissions: poll .... Colorado city stepped up emission goals to get to carbon neutrality .... Alberta econ to benefit from emissions reduction tech for oil sands .... Power transmission carbon emissions reduction missing from EPA clean power plan. (Superconductivity.) .... Oil train derailed in rural IL .... Germany's Greenpeace Energy to file lawsuit v. EC over UK nuke power plan to replace 1/5 of aging nuke/coal plants over next 10 yrs. EDF building 1st new nuke .... S Korea MOU to develop $2B of nuke plants in Saud Arabia .... Tata Power commissioned 63Mw unit of 126Mw hydropower project in Bhutan .... Mitsui paying $128M later this year for 25% stake in Spanish maker of wind turbine towers .... 1366 Tech seeks equity to complete $100M finance for silicon wafer plant they want to start building this year. Their tech uses over 90% of silicon it produces. Older tech uses 40-50%. 1366 can sell its wafers for at least 10% less than competition .... Power storage market in US to triple this year: GTM, Energy Storage Assoc. Up to 220Mw installs in '15. US market est. to reach 860Mw/yr by '19, $2.7B .... Gap, General Mills, Symantec pushing for Calif action on drought .... Global green consultancy market to hit $1B/yr by '19 .... Offshore wind farm installed bird radar .... Challenge to US offshore oil/gas drilling plan dismissed by court .... 19K gal saltwater spill in ND ....New enviro law closing some China factories.