TOP 25 US UTILITIES SPENT $400M IN LAST 4 YEARS ON LOBBYING TO FIGHT SOLAR POWER. IF THEY ONLY INVESTED THAT MUCH IN IT ....

How does that feel when you pay your power bill?

Washington State court ruled for children wanting more aggressive clean power regs. Judge ordered regulators to issue GHG emissions rule.

Oceans running low on oxygen: study. Water is still H2O. But acid from CO2 displacing ox? Complex science. Too complex for a mere US Republican. (O. Too much vitriolics already. Sorry.)

Beaches full of dead fish in Vietnam.

NJ has no plans to comply with Clean Power Plan.

Maine legislators upheld gov's veto of law designed to modernize solar power policy. (Man, Republicans love the 20th century power structure or what?)

World's top money managers largely ignoring climate risks: report.

Kenya torched 100 tons of ivory, rhino horns. (One more time. We should sell the ivory and rhino horn to raise funds to stop the poaching. Burning it does nothing but fuel the contraband market. When does stupidity go too far?)

Dubai Electric and Water got bid for 800Mw solar project as low as 3 US cents/Kwh from Masdar (Abu Dhabi). First Solar, Jinko lost out with bids under 4 cents.

New oil well started in record 11K feet offshore Uruguay.

OPEC April production up 484Kb/d. Iran up 300K to 3.5M. Iraq up 160K. Sauds up 80K.

US oil rig count down 11 last week. Natgas count down 1.

Court ordered seizure of $2B of Iran assets to comp victims of terrorist attacks allegedly perpetrated by or with aid of Iran. (Iran is irate over that judgement. No info on what court.)

Halliburton, Baker Hughes merger deal dead.

US coal consumption down 29% to 740M tons/yr over last 8 yrs: EIA.

Duke Energy plans to own/buy 8Gw of wind, solar, biomass power production by '20. Up 1/3 from goal set in '13.

Oklahoma added near 270Mw of wind power in 1Q, led all states.

Large-scale solar costs in Australia could drop to $80/Mwh this year.

International consortium started building 2Gw of solar in Egypt.

2 Italian comps planning 1Gw solar in Iran.

India OK'd 200Mw solar project in Rajasthan.

Ghana solar FITs to shift to 20 yrs from 10.

Texas solar prices currently lowest price/watt in US.

Volvo aims to sell 1M EVs by '25.

BMW i3 getting up to 114-mile range.

Florida Keys coral reefs dissolving: study. Port of Miami dredging caused widespread coral damage.

Texas floods flushing fracking chems, crude oil into rivers.