CHINA LAUNCHING CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM FOR GHG EMISSIONS. Also to work with US on Paris climate deal .... 4 more jurisdictions joined intl alliance pledging lower emissions .... Surprising record cold "blob" in N Atlantic. May be from slowing of Atlantic circulation from melt of Greenland ice (losing over 100B tons of ice/yr). Blob persistant over last 1.5 yrs .... Calif regulators planning "major enforcement action" v. VW over diesel emissions cheat. EPA to alter diesel emissions tests .... UN climate chief calling for carbon trading phase-out by '50 .... Russia rejecting calls to beef up its emissions pledge .... "Most are starving": global warming climate change hiting Calif seabirds .... Tropical storm Bill may have brought corn disease to Midwest: USDA .... Texas warning EPA its new rule to reduce methane pollution from oil/gas production not tough enough .... Europe demand for clean/renewable power up 11% in 2Q15 to 25TWh .... Bumblebee tongue shrinkage from climate change: study .... Air pollution killed 7M people globally in '12 .... Bloodsucking fish rained from sky in Alaska. (Whaaa?!) .... Asia Development Bank to double investment to fight global warming climate change to $6B by '20 .... US Fed $22.5M to reduce bus emissions .... DOI plans November auction for offshore NJ wind power .... N Dakota giving oil industry short-term break on NG well flaring .... Norway interst rates slashed to prop up oil producers .... Batt storage may curb utilities' sales by cutting peak rate usage: Moody's .... UK Crown Estate launched offshore leasing for marine power testing, demos for projects under 3Mw .... Petrobras at risk for bankruptcy. $90B debt .... Iberdrola to build 850Mw combined-cycle power plant in Mexico for $400M. Construction start in '16, online in '18. Mitsubishi/Hitachi turbines, Foster Wheeler boilers. Iberdrola plans $5B investment in Mexico power projects next 5 yrs. Currently building 2 combined-cycle plants, 3 cogen plants, 2 wind farms. Their current installed cap in Mexico 5Gw of combined-cycle, 230Mw wind power .... Duke plans to invest ~$2B next 7 yrs to improve system reliability .... Scot council scrapped 49Mw wind power proposal .... Trans Alta C$442M bond for 397Mw wind project in Ontario .... EC OK'd 400Mw German-Denmark offshore power link .... REG curtailing onshore wind, solar investment citing "considerable uncertainty".