'16 2ND WARMEST YEAR IN US RECORDS: NOAA

Obama admin added rusty-patched bumblebee to endangered species list. Once common, now on brink of extinction.

Paris mayor seeks to cut car #s in half.

Cities uniting to seek "record breaking" EV fleet.

ADB $75M China green bus loan.

Enel maiden E1.25B green bond.

Greek wind tender launch.

Hawaii's HECO seeks shovel-ready wind power projects.

Wind alone powered Scotland 4 days straight in late December.

Giant Leap Solar collab with LLNL for solar tech 10x cheaper than fossil fuels.

100Mw pumped-hydro storage project OK'd in Wales.

Sun Edison sold 1.7Gw wind, solar projects in India to Greenko.

Indian Point nuke power plant (near NYC) to close in '21. 1/4 of power for NYC, Westchester County.

Coal mining comp scrapped plans for Colorado coal gasification plant.

US coal railcar loads down 20% yoy last week of '16.

Trump met with RFK, Jr., coal execs.

Lebanon offshore oil/gas auction coming up. Est. 96TCF, 865M bls.

Mexican riots over 20% rise in fuel pump prices.

US plans to sell 8M bls from SPR in late Jan.

Iraq planning to boost Feb oil exports to record high, blaming Kurds for not keeping quota.

Russia started their oil production cut: Kremlin.

Rosneft looking to pull out of Algeria.

People living close to high-traffic roads have higher rates of dementia: Public Health Ontario, ICES.

Climate change a loss for global econ: report.

Beijing forming "enviro police force".

DOD, EPA finalized rule for military ship discharges.