GLOBAL FINANCE MINISTERS FORMED GROUP TO MOBILIZE CLIMATE FINANCE .... IDB to double climate financing .... California banned plastic microbeads .... Calif ordered public employee pension funds to drop coal assets .... Calif city ordered restaurants to stop washing dishes .... NYC banned open doors while running AC .... Cancer rates spike in children near Fukushima nuke plant: study .... Bleachng of corals will weaken their immunity from further disease .... Turkey planning to build 80 more coal power plants .... New system in DC turns sewage into el .... Utilities, Nest to install 1M smart thermostats in Chicago area .... Idaho Power to close 2 coal power plants, build more clean/renewable .... Green Charge Networks entered Calif ISO market. Contracted 61 energy storage systems, 13.3Mwh .... Brazil comp to triple its wind power capacity by '17, 1Gw goal ....Russia comp to build 146Mw wind, solar power next 5 yrs in far east close to Arctic Circle. Cost ~$350M. To save ~$30M/yr by cutting fuel shipments to remote cities, towns .... Louisiana natgas plant explosion killed 3 .... NREL cut solar research staff with funding drop .... 4 more automakers added to "dieselgate" .... Billions of barrels of shale oil found in Golan Heights.