2/3 OF AMERICANS FAVOR A CARBON TAX IF MONEY SENT BACK TO HOUSEHOLDS. Otherwise, only a majority .... Putting price on carbon saved Microsoft $10M/yr .... Global "green bonds" market at $500B. But clarity needed on what "green" is: expert .... EC OK'd 29.3B euros of German offshore wind .... New US mercury emissions standards have kicked in. Also, EPA coal ash final rule now official .... Oregon spending $1.5M to replace polluting stoves, fireplaces .... China officials to ban water-contaminating mills, refineries .... Record West Nile disease outbreak in Cal .... Oil/gas industry surged past cows as top US methane emitter: EPA. (For years, I've been suggesting cow gas capture bags. Just kidding.) .... Cal grid ready for 100% clean power: state regulator .... New FERC chairman 1st day on job .... Drilling ban overturned in New Mex, oil/gas industry withdrew lawsuit .... Dutch court suspended NG production in Europe's largest field after quakes .... US crude inventories up just 1.3M bls last week. Production estimated down 20Kb/d .... N Dakota reporting 900 wells drilled, waiting to be fracked. Est. 1,400 in S TX .... 244Mw First Energy coal unit on Lake Erie deactivated yesterday. Plant dates to 1930 .... Risen Energy to supply 200Mw of solar modules, 1Gw of solar project construction in Inner Mongolia next 3-5 yrs .... ET Solar to help build 70Mw plant in Philippines. Online March '16 .... Duke to build 17Mw solar for Camp Lejeune. Solar World (SRWRF) panels, GE inverters. Online this year .... Southern bought controlling stake in 32Mw Cal project from First Solar (FSLR). Online soon .... Allete bought 2 MN wind farms, 97.5Mw total, from EDF unit for $47.5M .... Nordic Investment Bank backing Helsinki's 1st waste-to-energy plant with 64M euro loan .... Murray Coal laid off 200 .... India coal mining surge to combat chronic power outages.