STUFF

68 more comps joined White House pledge to cut carbon emissions, support econ impacts of new climate treaty.

Wildfires making boreal forests less able to store carbon: study.

Too early to link Cal fires to global warming climate change: scientists.

Yosemite's once-largest glacier may be gone in 5 yrs.

Wetlands restoration needing speedup in SF Bay to fight sea level rise.

Another river turned orange in Colorado.

P&G to run its N America fabric, home care products plants with wind power from EDF.

Trump vowing to eliminate EPA if elected. (Yea, really, who wants a clean environment? What an asinine position. Marketing to the nuts.)

Volvo plans EV rollout before '20.

1st Fukushima worker cancer case.

Florida power bills too low to justify rooftop solar: utility CEO.

Belgian utility to build 215Mw biomass power plant next year.

DTE Energy to close 40Mw biomass plant in Wisconsin. Also to build 800Kw solar array at GM plant.

Google to buy 12.5% stake in 310Mw wind farm in Kenya upon '17 completion. Cost ~$700M. Vestas turbines.

Global oil production down 340Kb/d in Sept to 94.2M.

Indonesia back in OPEC.

New NG discovery in Pakistan.

Good early results of NG production in Morocco shale.

Cuba has at least 4.6B bls of undiscovered oil, 9.8TCF of undiscovered NG: USGS.

US oil rig count down 10 last week. NG rigs up 3.

Marcellus NG pipeline capacity failing to keep up with production. 7 new pipes coming online this quarter.

French comp to build 13Mw solar farm in Nigeria for 35M Euros.

Georgia (the country) tenders for 3 hydropower plants at least 10.4Mw each.

Masdar (UAE), New Zealand to finance 1Mw solar plant in Solomon Islands. Will meet 7% of power demand, save ~$.5M/yr of diesel imports.

OPIC to provide $400M for 100Mw concentrated solar project.

EDF to develop 123Mw wind power in Texas.

Sunscreen compound harms coral reefs: study.