WHITE HOUSE PLANNING TO DISMANTLE EPA ENVIRO JUSTICE PROGRAM.

Republican membership in House climate change caucus has more than doubled since January.

Tillerson recused himself from Keystone XL decision.

VW pled guilty to 3 felony counts in diesel emissions cheat in part of $4.3B US plea deal.

Over 1/2 of Colorado "abnormally dry".

Great Barrier Reef hit by 2nd mass bleaching.

Statoil pledging to cut 3M tons of CO2 emissions by '20.

Cost of solar power gen in France close to parity with combined-cycle natgas.

E ON adding batt power storage to Texas wind farms.

Tesla finished Kauai power project. 13Mw solar, 52Mwh batt power storage. 13.9cents/Kwh, ~1/2 of what customers paid for el in December. Diesel power ~15.5cents.

SPIC, Mingyang partnering on offshore wind power in China.

EBRD backing E300M of new clean/renewable power in Greece.

Scotland OK'd 48Mw floating offshore wind power project.

US wind power sector could have near 250K jobs, $85B/yr econ by '20: Navigant.

Fortum pairing batt power storage with biomass power plant in Finland.

2-D Perovskite solar cell exceeding expectations for efficiency in US govt lab.

Nissan to debut new LEAF EV in Sept.

Repsol made new oil/gas discovery in Alaska.

UAE cutting more oil production in March, April.

Fukushima evacuees told they can go home.