ONE-HALF OF US COUNTIES WOULDN"T BE ABLE TO COMPLY WITH TIGHTER OZONE STANDARDS: API .... Solar power "backbone" of future energy system: Shell CEO .... Four wild bee species listed under Canada Species At Risk Act .... EU renewed anti-dumping duties on US biodiesel for 5 more years .... USDA contest for wooden skyscraper designs. (Really!? Um, fires? Why not hemp and bamboo? Oy) .... DOE $100M for solar power research .... DOE $7M for 5 projects to use CO2 to get fresh water from underground salty water .... Germany using excess wind power to make hydrogen for fuelcell-powered vehicles, etc .... Southern to test, eval 1Mw ((2Mwh) lith-ion batt power storage project in GA .... Norway has given ~$900M to Brazil Amazon Fund. $100M more coming this year .... Washington State water taxis to run on B10 .... Shale oil production retreat could leave US short on natgas. (Yes, pards, it is that tight to meet demand with power comps switching to NG and all. And some want to export LNG, go fig.) .... OPEC forecasts $80 oil by '20 .... China still filling its oil strategic reserves .... Russia putting Arctic oil/gas development on hold until '20. (Sanctions hurt.) .... NRG Yield bought $210M wind power portfolio .... Sunpower (SPWR) to build 20Mw plant for co-op.