SCRAP FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES NOW, BRING IN CARBON TAX: WORLD BANK CHIEF. 5-point plan for low-carbon growth .... US Senate OK'd motion to "insist" final spending bill includes measures to address human-caused climate change .... Top oil producing countries, comps pledged to stop NG flaring by '30 as part of agreement with World Bank .... Major investment groups asking SEC to require disclosure of climate risks of fossil fuels comps .... India 1 of last to file plan to cut HFC emissions .... Less wind stifling recent Cal pow gen .... W Va rewrote net metering standards. (Not good for clean power.) .... New species of tree-killing bark beetle found in Central Am .... Armed guards keeping 24/7 watch over last male northern white rhino .... Mexico launched gill net ban to protect rare porpoise .... TVA finding el demand growth doesn't exist at this time to justify continuing to build new nuke plant .... Clean power investment down sharply in Australia .... Australia's largest utility committed to close all coal plants within 35 yrs. Starting to build 102Mw solar plant .... Up to 6Gw of wind power may be blocked in France by military, national weather service. Radar interference. France plans 19Gw wind by '20, 9.1Gw at end of '14 .... 1st unit of 330Mw run-of-river hydropower plant in N India now on grid. 3 more units by July. Est $439M project .... OPEC can now pump ~33.5Mb/d: IEA. Well above their 29.5M demand. But spare cap could more than halve this year .... US coal industry has shed near 50K jobs since '08. NG, clean/ren power industry has added over 200K .... UK biodiesel consumption up 25% in '14, 3.4% of diesel use. Ethanol use down 1%, 4.6% of gasoline .... Swiss comp nixed $428M investment in S Africa canola biodiesel project .... Oak Creek sold 1st 2 construction-ready phases of 148Mw wind project in Mexico. OPIC, NADB finance .... Macalester College in St Paul going 100% solar power with Sun Ed (SUNE) help .... Greenbacker (NY) bought ~2Mw Florida solar for ~$4.15M .... US GHG emissions up 2% in '13: EPA .... Stanford U now runs on 65% clean/ren power.