CHINA'S LAWS NOT WINNING CLIMATE, POLLUTION "WAR": EXPERTS .... France vowing to end their export aid for coal projects without carbon capture/storage .... Enviro group suing BLM, USFS for OK'ing Utah lease of 40M tons of coal .... Calif lawmakers passed 50% clean/renewable power standard, energy efficiency package. Also spending more cap-and-trade money, but holding back $1.7B .... Record number of fires burning in Indonesia. (We are pretty much aware of US western fires by now, yea? Oy) .... Volcano shooting off in S Japan. (A lot more ash into atmos) .... UK rejected 970Mw, $8.3B offshore wind project by EDF, Enoco saying it would harm views from designated World Historical Site. Original plan was for 1.2Gw .... US oil rig count down 10 last week .... China powgen output up just 1% in Aug (not stated if yoy or over July) .... OPEC lowered its '16 global oil growth projection to between recent EIA, IEA estimates: down 50Kb/d to 1.29Mb/d growth .... BMW to go all EV or hybrid drivetrains over next decade .... PSC of Oklahoma plans to add up to 200Mw solar. Also expects to finish installing smart meters by '17. Coal powgen to go from 55% now to 16% by '24. NG powgen from 13% to 47%. Wind powgen from ~15% to 28%. (I know. 9%, then, for solar and other (nuke?)) .... DHL, A-Busch stepping up alt-powered vehicle fleet investment .... China Everbright won bids for $103M of waste-to-energy projects .... Euro comps proposing $630M of Indonesia clean power investment .... Solar City (SCTY) unveiled multi-tech smart energy homes project .... Viridian dumping SCTY, joining Sungevity to sell residential solar systems.