65% IN US BELIEVE GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE REAL. Under 1/2 think humans are primary cause. ~40% believe scientists are in broad consensus on the issue. 36% say global warming climate change will pose serious threat to their way of life. 18% say GWCC not real. 17% not sure .... Canada ruling out carbon tax .... India PM: country won't be pressured into emissions cuts. (Despite health costs, quality of life with pollution. Oy.) .... 1/2 of India rivers too polluted for drinking: scientists. (Just how sad.) .... California aquifers can no longer serve as backup water source in droughts: hydrologists .... Graphene membrane may lower high costs of desalination: study .... Tehran public transport getting el buses .... Push for 8-10 new nuke plants would bankrupt Eskom, S Africa: enviros .... Japan ruling party recommends country get its baseload power from sources on par with other developed countries. That means nuke, coal for them. Baseload = geothermal, hydro, nuke, coal .... $3.6M NOAA project to create "early warning" system for algae blooms .... Another bank turned its back on mountaintop-removal coal mining .... Chesapeake Bay nutrient crackdown making "steady" progress: analysis .... US Transportation Safety Board wants stiffer standards for rail oil tankers .... Georgia Power OK'd to recover more costs of nuke power project .... UK kick-starting underground coal gasification industry without public discussion. (More polluting than coal power.) .... US oil rig count down 23 last 2 weeks. (Reductions about done.) .... Large productivity increase from "new tech" in shale oil wells not true: Post Carbon Institute .... Shiite militias engaged in widespread looting, burning homes, executions of Sunnis who didn't flee Tikrit .... Iraq crude exports up 15% in March, highest in 35 yrs. 4-mile line of supertankers sitting off Basra to get loaded. Contract renegotiations with foreign oil comps .... Free Syrian Army, some alqaida captured main border crossing with Jordan. Looted the place, holding Lebanese truck drivers hostage .... Libya National Oil Comp says its producing up to 564Kb/d, expected to increase. Tobruk govt still trying to get oil money out of Tripoli. Would destroy country's central banking system, deepen chaos .... Iran has est. 20-30M bls in floating storage ready for sale if sanctions lifted. 1Mb/d of production shut-in by sanctions .... Aden, Yemen still under seige. Power outages, food shortages. UN fears major humanitarian crisis .... Oil industry official says China's oil storage cap almost full. 132M bls new cap to come available in 2H15. Est. 620Kb/d has been going to storage .... March Russia oil production 10.7Mb/d .... 3-month deal between Ukraine, Russia for NG @ $248/KCM v. $329 in 1Q. Still $5B contention. (Russia began in Kiev.) .... New oil discovery in deepwater off Malaysia .... UAE plans public-private partnership for 100Mw solar .... DONG bought rights for 1Gw US offshore wind project .... SEB, KfW financing 60Mw Lithuania wind project with 89M Euro loan .... ET Solar to build 50Mw solar in Israel .... Scientists using corn husks to make cheaper hydrogen fuel .... Ship collision spilled oil into Mississippi R.