IHS FORECASTING DOUBLE-DIGIT SALES GROWTH FOR PV SOLAR INVERTER CHIPS NEXT 3 YRS. $387M in '14, up 9% over '13. Forecast 12% growth this year, 20% in '16, 14% in '17, 16% in '18. 3 types: microinverters, single-phase, 3-phase .... Organic farming will help China cut GHG emissions without compromising food production: study .... Midwest US states asking EPA to set up regional carbon trading rules to meet Clean Power Plan .... Brazil state to invest $324M in solar projects .... Most big food comps ignoring water footprints. Coke, Unilever, Gen Mills leading the industry .... Rain harvesting against the law in Colorado. (Hay, it's old, dry cow country with water wars history. Moove the cows.) .... MN efforts to save walleye paying off in most lakes .... Monsanto committing to cutting GHGs. (Yay! How 'bout pesticide cancer?) .... OH looking to neighbors to cut Lake Erie phosphorus. (Farm runoff.) .... Minimal consumer savings from Indiana energy efficiency law: enviros .... Nepal quake lowered mountains, raised Kathmandu .... Columbia leader ordered halt of glyphosate use on coca fields. Cancer risk. (And we all know no one uses coca anymore.) .... TX rejecting some fracking injection wells as tremors continue .... Large oil frackers have spent $80B more than received from oil sales. (Doesn't work, pards. Unless you need low cost fuels courtesy of Wall Street or Washington.) .... Russia has kept up 10Mb/d oil production by drilling ~8K new wells/yr in older fields .... Libya oil pipes to port still blocked by protesters wanting jobs. Oil field still shut by security guard strike, another shut by pipeline blockage .... EU to seek UN Security Council approval for military attacks on Libya refugee smuggling bases .... Russia, China deal last week for up to $25B China finance for Russia comps that can't borrow from EU under sanctions .... Abengoa (ABGB) made 3rd assets sale - E614B for 450Mw solar - to its yieldco .... Saud Aramco plans to spend $80B overseas .... 63K-gallon pipeline spill of highly-concentrated saltwater from ND fracking fields made its way to a tributary, lake .... Australia to reduce clean/renewable powergen target to 33Gwh from 41. ~20% of power demand by '20. No wood waste powgen. Aus '14 invest in clean/ren fell to $330M from $2.1B in '13 .... Vestas got 149Mw order from Mexico. 1Q16 deliveries. OPIC, NADB finance. 3.3Mw medium-wind turbines .... Joule got $40M finance for waste carbon-to-fuel development .... Principal Solar, Alpha Energy to build 100Mw plant .... National Grid, Clarkson U, GE, NREL planning muni microgrid for Potsdam, NY. 3Mw CHP, 2MW solar, 2Mw power storage, 900Kw hydropower. $1.2M DOE grant .... National Grid to invest $40B next 5 yrs on grid development .... American Eagle Energy filed bankruptcy.