NUKE POWER PREVENTED AVG NET 1.8M DEATHS/YR GLOBALLY '71-'09 by preventing 64 gigatons of CO2 emissions over that period .... Climate change accelerates spread of asthma: study .... Japan govt est clean/renewable power may be 24% of their power gen cap by '30 .... Soil microbes, phytoplankton exacerbating Arctic warming: studies .... Okla gov signed order opposing EPA power gen carbon rule. (Why are these kind of people in power? Ignorant voters. I, for 1, like clean air and keeping global temps normal and the oceans from rising. Though I also believe Jesus is coming back soon so it really doesn't matter.) .... Next Era says customers clamoring for power storage .... Coral disease spreading in Hawaii .... USDA program addresses ag carbon issues from soil health to grazing. Farming contributes ~9% to overall GHG emissions, 40% of methane emissions. Program est to elim 2% of US GHG emissions .... Cal's cap-and-trade system provides new ways for farmers to mitigate risk of climate change .... Ballard (BLDP) got initial 100-unit order for backup fuel cell power in India .... Mortenson to build 204Mw wind farm in TX .... Germany awarded 25 bids for pilot PV solar auction .... Vestas got 20Mw wind turbine order from Australia .... Turkey qualified 4 comps for 91Mw of new solar .... SPI (SOPW) bought Shanghai solar installer for $44M .... 2 big banks moving to include energy efficiency in risk calculus .... Oregon panel upheld denial of LNG pipeline permit .... Japan maglev train new record speed. 374.7 MPH .... 514K bl drawdown from Cushing OK last week. But total US crude inventories up 1.9M bls. Crude production up 7Kb/d. Total crude/condensates inventory (includes gasoline, distillates, propane, etc.) up 7.7M bls .... Pipeline probs in W TX reportedly stranding millions of bls of crude in Permian.