JUNE HOTTEST IN US RECORDS: NOAA.

June 14th consecutive month of record highs. Longest such streak in records. 1st 6 months of '16 hottest on record.

Republican platform rejects carbon tax, Paris climate accords.

India to double '20 solar target.

Latin Am on track to install 2.7Gw of solar this year: IHS.

Japanese biz elites giving up on nuclear power, lobbying for clean/renewable power, energy efficiency, smart infra.

Scot court cancelled 2.3Gw wind power development.

Argentina Supreme Court moved to suspend planned natgas price hikes.

ABB to build 1.1Mv DC powerline in China.

Sunrun (RUN) $33M loan package for US growth.

Sempra Louisiana LNG export terminal OK'd to expand 1.41BCF/d to 3.53BCF.

30% of world's vehicles to use renewables by '30: Lux Research.

3 US states suing VW over diesel cheat.

US western Native Nations banding together to stop oil-by-rail.

Oil explorers will be able to add 9Mb/d to global supply - mostly US shale oil - by '25 with $60 oil: Wood Mackenzie.

Torrent of new oil tanker ships coming to market next 18 months.

Shipping pollution causes thousands of deaths/year: study.

Fracking may worsen asthma: study.

Coal dust causes 23K premature deaths/year in EU: study.

New N Sea oil/gas discovery off Norway. 42-80M boe possible.

Tunisia reducing oil production. 63Kb/d now. Comps pulling out over strikes, protests.

New attack on Nigeria oil pipeline.

Norway 1st country to ban deforestation.

Canada, Ukraine free-trade agreement.

Pigeons may predict lead contamination in drinking water.