WORLD FRESH WATER SUPPLY IN DANGER FROM GLOBAL WARMING, POPULATION INCREASE: UN report .... Beijing to close last of 4 major local coal power plants next year. 2 shut down last week. Replacing with 4 natgas power plants with 2.6x more power cap .... Batt costs for EVs falling faster than industry forecasts: study .... Libertarian proposal: get rid of EPA Clean Power Plan, enact carbon tax instead .... Up to 40% US shale oil/gas production junk debt - up to $80B - may default next 2 yrs if prices stay below $65/bl: JP Morgan Chase .... US oil storage cap could be full as early as mid-May .... TX oil/gas production stats through Jan show decline started, level off through '15 .... Permian wells 55% horizontal. Eagle Ford, Bakken 99% .... Corporate green bond market for climate change projects may rise 58% to $30B in '15: S&P. Total green bond mart may hit $50-100B from $36.6B in '14. May depend on China .... Ontario to install 1.7Gw wind power next 18 months .... Hanergy Thin Film opening 60 stores/service centers in China to broaden solar sales .... Ex-employees accusing Ormat of lying to get US 1603 cash grant awards for their geothermal .... Eqypt, Ethiopia, Sudan deal to share Nile water .... Mass judge threw out Harvard students' lawsuit to force school to divest fossil fuel comps from endowment .... Swarthmore students launched 1st indefinite occupation for fossil fuel divestment .... Shenzhen City China to invest up to $800M to spur EV demand .... Climate scientists urging museums not to take money from fossil fuel interests .... Petrol, trucking groups suing OR officials over clean fuel rule .... Solar Power (SOPW) 100Mw or more Panama deal with US comp alliance .... TX town rejected new oil/gas well rules. Industry fighting local control .... US shale, Canada oil sands ~18% of global production, ~50% of global capex of late .... Solar Frontier, Welspun 100Mw thin-film solar supply deal in India .... Spain comp turned on 14Mw wind farm for 14M Euros. 1st Spain wind without subsidy. To sell on wholesale mart. Only wind built in Spain in '14 .... Mitsubishi, Toho developed 450Kw natgas cogen power plant. April 1 market launch. Gen efficiency 42%, overall efficiency near 82% .... Nordex follow up contract for Uruguay wind power .... Eaton solar inverter deal for 73Mw Cal solar project .... Wave Energy Scotland 7M Pound R/D funding program .... Blackbird plans 100Mw sea wave power plant in Grenada .... Peru comp to develop 109Mw wind project .... Bacardi using biomass to distill gin .... Power use spikes with indoor marijuana growing. Obviously. But utilities that may have to deal with it have to prepare to deal with it. (Ohio coming up! Ohio?!. I know! I don't think so.) .... NO2, ozone could lead to more sneezing in allergy season. (Already gittin it.) .... EPA probing suspected methyl bromide poisoning in Virgin I. Also found health risks from paint stripper compound .... Rio mayor laments failure to clean waterway before Olympics .... Iran, facing water crisis, turning to Israel-pioneered conservation methods. Onward. Upward.