TWO NEW STUDIES DEEPENING WORRY THAT GLOBAL WARMING WOULD SHUT DOWN OCEAN CIRCULATION .... Southern ocean soaking up more carbon than thought over past decade: study .... Study shows how man-made mercury emissions enter food chain on US west coast .... Columbia MD now 100% clean/renewable powered with latest solar buy from Sun Edison (SUNE) power plant .... Court ruled EPA erred in OK'ing insecticide linked to killing honeybees. (Yes! I long regretted spraying field of Colorado sunflowers knowing I had killed bees.) .... Energy Focus (EFOI) 3M share offer at $17/share .... Pickens selling 3M shares of Clean Energy (CLNE). (Or has.) .... Duke to pay $975K fine, spend $4.4M on enviro programs for power plant emissions violations years ago .... USDA $100M to boost use of gasoline-ethanol blends .... PJM elected to require Exelon to keep Illinois nuke plant ready to run at least until mid-'18. Exelon had considered shutting it down .... Current El Nino now expected to be 3rd strongest on record .... Nevada regulators kept status quo on net metering rate .... TX fracking ban lawsuit dismissed. 1 more suit .... Cal university system divested coal, oil sands assets .... Oil prices could hit $20: analysts .... Duke finished 4 solar plants in NC. 30Mw. 132Mw more in construction, online by yearend .... Duke also got regulators' OK to buy 20Mw solar in Indiana. Online by'16 .... India railway going B5 .... San Diego G&E invented, makes, sells device that cuts cost of residential solar, especially for older electrical systems .... DTE Energy installed solar-powered trash compactor/recycling units in Detroit .... Kyocera, Century Tokyo to build another 29Mw solar plant in Japan. Online early '18 .... China Longyuan to launch 450Mw of wind, solar projects .... Spain comp OK'd for $282M solar project in Australia .... GCL to raise $180M for solar investment.