ANOTHER CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER TO LEAD TRUMP NASA TRANSITION. (OH, WHAT THE HECK DO SCIENTIFIC FACTS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANYWAY.)

Judge ordering US, demonstrators to respond to Dakota Access developer by Jan 6.

Blizzard hindering N Dakota oil spill cleanup.

KY governor wants to cut coal ash oversight.

Obama banned oil/gas drilling in 40K square miles of Bering Sea.

Minnesota suing VW over diesel emissions cheat.

Washington suing Monsanto over PCB pollution.

DOE launched $140M hub for "breakthrough" energy tech.

Oil majors would increase their worth by adopting 2*C global temp increase pathway: expert.

La Nina conditions likely to vanish early '17: expert.

Exxon/Massachusetts fight heading to Fed appeals court.

DOE OK'd Louisiana LNG project.

Sweden's recycling program so successful the country now out of trash to recycle.

Nigeria to sell $63M of green bonds in 1Q17.

Iran seeks clean power investment.

Diablo Canyon, California's last operating nuke power plant, to close in '25. 7% of state's emissions-free power.

US Wind seeks Maryland OK for 750Mw offshore wind project.

By '11, solar power industry had saved more GHG emissions than it had emitted.

SECI 1Gw solar tender.

EIB, bank E475M of energy efficiency deals.

Russia to build its 1st offshore wind farm - 60Mw - in White Sea '17-'20.

Sun Brilliance to build 100Mw solar.

Almost 30% of US distributed solar capacity - 3.7Gw - owned by 3rd parties. 12.3Gw total US distributed solar as of Sept.

UK wind power set new generation record: over 10Gw.

1st grid-scale Tesla power storage system in Europe (England) now online.

Daimler E10B EV investment plan.

EVs, hybrids could be 1/3 of vehicle sales by '40: expert.

Automakers' lithium demand to increase 17% in '17: analyst.

Growth of China's oil imports expected to drop 60% in '17. Storage almost full, small refineries facing govt (tax policy change).

Japan importing less crude. Down 5.6% since Sept to ~3Mb/d.

China comp to invest 1B Euro in biodiesel development in Finland.

Consumers willing to pay 11% premium for biofuels: Washington State U research. (Really? When are consumers really willing to pay more for anything?)

Private Japanese comp to use ethanol to get rocket to 50 kilometers to study atmos.

MOUs signed for 5 2nd-generation ethanol plants in India.

BP to double its N Sea oil production to 200Kb/d by '20: CEO.

Have a glorious weekend pards. Take it easy.