Friday, March 4, 2016

LEAD POISONING IN CLEVELAND EVEN WORSE THAN FLINT

Check it out.

US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts rejected bid by 20 states to block EPA limit on toxic emissions from power plants while EPA reviews costs.

US disaster response to Ethiopia drought.

Energy efficiency "2.0" OK'd for Missouri utilities.

Europe bioeconomy E2.1T/yr revs, 18.3M jobs: report. Bioecon = bioresources from land, sea for food, materials, energy.

Lawsuit v. Southern for "fleecing" customers for new nuke power plant costs.

Asia Development Bank $225M bond finance, $38M direct loan for 700Mw geothermal power plant refurbish in Philippines.

PA House bill to eliminate E10 mandate.

Brazil House bill to boost biodiesel blend to 10% in 3 yrs.

Deal to build $6B natgas pipe from Mozambique to S Africa.

Genel cut their reserves in half. (Yep, "I just want my life back" after BP Gulf spill CEO. Tony?). Kurd oil.

Anadarko cut 80% of onshore rigs, laying off 95% of contractors.

Sauds turning to capital markets for $10B loan.

Carbon tax necessary to break fossil fuels dependency: MIT.

Petrobras selling off Argentina assets.

Gamesa to build 70Mw wind power in Uruguay. 2Mw turbines. Online 2Q17.

Zambezi River 2.4Gw hydropower dam cost has doubled over 23 yrs to $4.5B between Zimbabwe, Zambia.

Duke Energy to build 6Mw more solar in N Carolina. Also wrapping up 141Mw solar in NC.

Comp investing $18.3M for 10.75 solar project in Chile.

$316B/yr global climate adaption market.

Prelim data Feb hottest ever globally.

Sun Edison (SUNE) settled LatAm dispute with $28.5M payout.

Sun Ed to sell stake in 500Mw India project.

Plug Power (PLUG) got $30M loan facility.

Israel 40Mw solar tender.

Indian Railways 150Mw solar tender.

SkyPower 200Mw solar PPA in India.

India plans to add 12Gw solar, 4.1Gw wind in '16-'17.

India up'd clean/renewable power budget to $2.1B. Doubled tax on coal again.

E.ON, Solarwatt partnering on modular energy storage systems.

Bird poop likely caused Indian Point nuke plant outage. (Yea, OK. So they say. Nuke is good clean power, birds. Ca caw.)

Medicaid expanded to cover lead-poisoned kids, moms.

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