RICHEST GLOBAL ECONS SPEND $1K/CITIZEN/YEAR ON FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES: IMF. (Just get your head put on that, pards.) .... Russia staking new claim In Arctic including North Pole. (Oil/gas-rich area. Gotta love Putin, A?) .... EPA kept, but relaxed, CCS tech required for new coal power plants in CPP .... CPP generally welcomes biomass powergen in states' plans. But new rules to increase industry accountability .... Algae comps like CPP's carbon reuse provision. "Huge win for algae." .... Majority in UK worried about climate change: poll .... UK to build world's largest offshore wind farm. 2.4Gw. Up to $13B cost. ~$5/w. Expensive. But that's offshore wind .... Wildfires pushing USFS to "tipping point": report .... Massive algae bloom choking US west coast .... Polar bears diving longer to cope with warming .... DOE proposing updates for vending machines, batt chargers .... Sunpower (SPWR) $1.5B to expand in Chile .... First Solar (FSLR) 65% revenue growth, beat earnings est in latest report .... Solar City (SCTY) to buy Mexico solar developer for $15M .... Solar 3D (SLTD) $3.5M deal in Cal .... Global quakes up over 100K/yr lately .... EMT bombs .... Vehicles-to-grid energy storage pilot program in Cal .... GE making sodium-ion batts .... India's largest solar power auction shows further drop on costs. Sky Power, Sun Ed in .... China factory production down to 47.8 in July from 49.4 in June .... Iran concerned IAEA may reveal secrets. (O, yea .... shhh.) .... EBRD tender for 50Mw wind power in Kazakhstan. (Again, I ask, who was Stan?) .... PG&E $353M IPO to pay off Cal PUC fines .... Patriot Coal laying off more miners .... Kellogg to phase out artificial ingredients. (They've achieved their human DNA damage v. diminishing returns goals, I presume.)